Senior Finance Manager

Babcock International Group; Bournemouth; Hybrid; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in security and defense is seeking a Senior Finance Manager to spearhead financial management and reporting across key projects. You will play a pivotal role in supporting the Defence Support Group while ensuring financial accuracy and governance. With a focus on transformation and continuous improvement, this position provides an invaluable opportunity for a qualified finance professional to thrive in a dynamic environment. The role offers flexibility with hybrid working arrangements across various locations.

Benefits

Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance

Access to a Digital GP and annual health check

Employee share scheme

Employee shopping savings portal

Professional Fees payment

10-days special paid leave for reservists

Holiday Trading benefit

‘Be Kind Day’ for volunteering

Development opportunities and support programme

Qualifications

• Ability to clearly communicate financial info to non-finance individuals.
• Experience in finance business partnering is highly desirable.
• Experience handling and distilling large data sets.

Responsibilities

• Provide financial support to the Defence Support Group Heads of Finance.
• Lead transformation projects and manage financial reporting for Incentive Adjustment.
• Support with business cases, forecasting, and month-end processes.

Skills

Advanced Excel skills

Excellent communication skills

Finance business partnering

Handling large amounts of data

Education

Recognised professional accounting qualification (ACA, ACCA, CIMA)

Tools

SAP

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Location: Warminster or Bovington or Andover or Bristol + Hybrid Working Arrangements

Compensation: Up to £75, (Dependent on Experience) + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF

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 Manager at our Warminster, Bovington, Andover or Bristol sites.

The Role

As a Senior Finance Manager, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. Providing financial support and deputization to the Defence Support Group (DSG) Heads of Finance and support to the Finance Director (Equipment Support).

Day-to-day, you’ll be focused on the financial management and reporting of Incentive Adjustment, Risk and KPIs for DSG; you’ll lead on driving transformation projects, standardisation, and internal control throughout the Finance function.

• Support IA team with all financial management to include business cases, forecasting and month end processes (invoicing, accruals, reporting).
• Key member of Finance team including lead point of contact for the external Customer in relation to IA.
• Support Contract Director in managing costed Risk register and ensuring all risks are evidenced in line with audit requirements.
• Peer reviews of finance models to ensure accuracy, standardisation and continuous improvement.

This role is full time, 37 hours per week and is adaptable and can be delivered from various locations including Warminster, Bovington, Andover or Bristol.

Essential Experience of the Senior Finance Manager:

• Advanced Excel skills, good knowledge of MS Office.
• Experience of handling, conditioning and distilling large amounts of data.
• Excellent communication skills particularly at senior level and the ability to clearly communicate financial information to non-finance people both verbally and visually.
• Finance business partnering experience is highly desirable.
• Experience of SAP is beneficial.

Qualifications for the Senior Finance manager

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

Security Clearance

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

Many of the positions within our company are subject to national security clearance and Trade Control restrictions. This means that your eligibility for certain roles may be affected by your place of birth, nationality, current or former citizenship, and any residency you hold or have held. Further details are available at.

What we Offer:

• 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 UK Babcock employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement. This Window opens February through to March annually.
• ‘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.