Finance Manager

Job Title:              Finance Manager 
Location:              Plymouth, Devon + Hybrid Working Arrangements 
Compensation:    Up to £60,000 (Dependent on Experience) + Benefits
Role Type:            Full time / Permanent
Role ID:                SF63356

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 Finance Manager at our Devonport site, in Plymouth.

The Role
As a Finance Manager, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. Working in our newly structured Major Nuclear Capital Programmes (MNCP) business unit, you’ll be focusing on the provision of financial services and business partnering with operational managers to deliver the required financial performance of the areas under responsibility.

Day-to-day, you’ll be expected to maintain robust control and governance framework; as well as providing leadership, development and support required for the MNCP business unit and finance director:

• Manage production of monthly, quarterly and 5 year financial actual / forecast reporting.
• Maintaining complete and accurate accounting records.
• Ensuring that contract amounts are billed accurately, in full and on time to ensure efficient cash collection.
• Ensure appropriate accounting standards are applied including IFRS 15.
• Projects are reviewed regularly in accordance with required governance.

This role is full time, 35 hours per week and requires regular travel to our Devonport site, in Plymouth, on a weekly basis alongside home working arrangements.

Essential Experience of the Finance Manager: 

• Detailed knowledge of financial systems.
• Strong Excel and data analysis skills.
• Demonstratable people skills and ability of working in a collaborative environment.
• IFRS 15 long term contract accounting knowledge is highly desirable.
• Ideally, you will have a background in a highly regulated industry such as defence but, this is not essential.

Qualifications for the Finance Manager: 

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

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 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 careers@babcockinternational.com 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: 09/04/2025

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