Senior Finance Business Partner

Babcock International; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Senior Finance Business Partner to join their team. This role involves supporting key contracts and ensuring accurate financial reporting while enhancing operational performance. You'll collaborate closely with department heads and provide insights to drive efficiency and effectiveness in finance processes. The position offers a dynamic work environment with hybrid arrangements, allowing you to balance in-office and remote work. If you're ready to make a significant impact in a supportive and inclusive culture, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Benefits

Generous Holiday Allowance

Matched Contribution Pension Scheme

Access to Digital GP

Employee Share Scheme

Employee Shopping Savings Portal

Payment of Professional Fees

10-days Special Paid Leave for Reservists

Holiday Trading

'Be Kind Day' for Volunteering

Employee Assistance Programme

Qualifications

• Experience in complex finance procedures and ability to simplify complexities.
• Knowledge of budgeting, forecasting, and technical accounting standards.

Responsibilities

• Support and analyze key contracts for financial reporting and management.
• Develop reporting frameworks and enhance understanding of KPIs.

Skills

Complex Finance Procedures

Technical Accounting Standards

Budgeting and Forecasting

Strong Communication Skills

Influencing Skills

Education

Recognised Professional Accounting Qualification

Job description

Job Title: Senior Finance Business Partner
Location: Helensburgh, Argyll and Bute + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: Up to £60,000 (Dependent on Experience) + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF63330

At Babcock we're working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as a Senior Finance Business Partner at our Clyde / Faslane site in Helensburgh.

The Role
As a Senior Finance Business Partner, you'll have a role that's out of the ordinary. Supporting and analysing key contracts serving internal and external reporting requirements, ensuring tasks are delivered safely, on time, to specification and within an agreed budget.

Day-to-day, you'll be ensuring close liaison with all key stakeholders, as well as overseeing and providing input into the provision of accurate, timely and concise financial information relating to specific contracts:

• Work with head of departments to develop and build the reporting and financial management of key contracts to support KPI delivery at strategic level.
• Support the Head of Finance to drive improved delivery, utilisation and efficiency of finance processes and resources with indirect management of a small finance team.
• Develop a framework of reporting with the delivery teams to understand contract performance and to coordinate and review against expected contract outturn.
• Work to enhance business wide understanding of the contract's key performance indicators as part of the periodic reporting cycle to inform better business decisions.
• Build strong strategic internal relationships with HoD's to ensure operational improvements and BAU meets business requirements.

This role is full time, 37 hours per week and requires regular travel to Clyde on a weekly / monthly basis alongside home working arrangements.

Essential Experience of the Senior Finance Business Partner:

• Competent and experienced in complex Finance procedures and processes with an ability to simplify the complex.
• Knowledge of technical accounting standards.
• Budgeting and forecasting experience.
• Strong communication and influencing skills.
• Ideally, you will have experience in the defence industry (or similar) but, this is not essential.

Qualifications for the Senior Finance Business Partner:

• You must hold a recognised professional accounting qualification (ACCA, ACA, ACMA, CIMA, ICAEW, ICAS) or equivalent / similar.

Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role.

What we Offer:

• Generous holiday allowance
• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
• Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
• Employee share scheme
• Employee shopping savings portal
• Payment of Professional Fees
• Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
• Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows the majority of employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement
• 'Be Kind Day' enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity
• Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.

Babcock International
For over a century Babcock has helped to defend nations, protect communities and build a better world. To continue, we must adapt, advance and be a sustainable business with a shared goal.

We are a disability confident committed employer. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please email [e-mail] with the subject header 'Reasonable adjustments requirement'. We're committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone's free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working - please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.

Closing Date: 23/04/2025

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