Senior Finance Manager

Babcock International; Leicester; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading company as a Senior Finance Manager, overseeing financial governance for key contracts. This role offers hybrid working arrangements, a competitive salary, and a comprehensive benefits package, including generous holidays and professional development opportunities.

Benefits

Generous holiday allowance

Matched contribution pension scheme

Access to Digital GP and health consultations

Employee share scheme

Employee shopping savings portal

Payment of Professional Fees

10-days special paid leave for reservists

Holiday Trading benefit

Employee assistance programme

Qualifications

• Experience in Microsoft Office suite, especially Excel.
• Ability to present clear financial messages.

Responsibilities

• Oversee financial aspects of contracts and provide support.
• Produce monthly management accounts and ensure compliance.
• Work on bid information for business contracts.

Skills

Excel

PowerPoint

Word

Visio

Outlook

Data Manipulation

Education

Recognised professional Finance qualification

Tools

SAP

Job description

Job Title: Senior Finance Manager
Location: UK, Flexible base +Travel to Capenhurst and Leicester + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: Competitive + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF63315

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.

The role

As a Senior Finance Manager, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You’ll serve as the primary finance contact, overseeing all financial aspects of the New Dimensions and Urenco contracts, and provide support to the Schiphol contract. This is a role that directly reports to the Finance Director and has one direct report (Schiphol management accountant).

Day-to-day, you’ll maintain financial governance for the contracts and support the sector’s agenda on strengthening controls and reducing risk, provide management accountant activities and finance business partnering and produce timely and meaningful management information to the Contract Managers. You’ll also:

• Ensure compliance with Group, Sector, business unit reporting timetables, policies and procedures
• Produce monthly management accounts including commentaries on profit and loss, balance sheet and operating cashflow
• Work with the team to produce bid information for any additional business or contract extensions or re-bids
• Provision of schedules to support the central production of statutory accounts
• Provision of detailed financial information to external auditors

This role is full time, 37 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with days in the office/onsite and days working from home.

Essential experience of the Senior Finance Manager:

• Experience in the use of Microsoft Office 2010 suite of applications including Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Visio and Outlook
• Experience of SAP
• Ability to understand and manipulate data to present clear and concise financial messages for review.
• Ability to ensure deadlines and targets are achieved or surpassed.
• Ability to work cross functional and collaboratively with senior non finance people

Qualifications for the Senior Finance Manager:

• Recognised professional Finance qualification

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 United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).

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 UK Babcock employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement. There is an annual Window to request this benefit. ‘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: 28/05/2025

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