FP&A Reporting Manager

Job Title:             FP&A Reporting Manager
Location:             Hamilton, South Lanarkshire + Hybrid Working
Compensation:   Competitive Salary + Car Allowance + Annual Incentive Plan
Role Type:          Full time / Permanent
Role ID:              SF62193

At Babcock we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as an FP&A Reporting Manager in our Rail sector.

The role  

As  an FP&A Reporting Manager within our Rail business, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary where you'll be key to the business. Day to day, you will be a key team player supporting the FP&A Director, responsible for all aspects of governance, control and reporting, ensuring key stakeholders are provided with accurate and timely financial data.

You'll work closely with the Sector FP&A team and the SLT in preparing the financial reporting deliverables, managing underlying governance procedures including; external and internal audits, risk reporting, preparation of technical accounting papers, legislative compliance and reviewing the implementation of accounting policies.

Key duties include:

• Overall management and responsibility for the production of rolling re-forecast, budget, monthly, quarterly, 6-monthly and annual reporting requirements.
• Liaise closely with wider finance teams to complete all management reporting, financial analysis and any ad hoc reporting requests.
• Responsible for assuring and maintaining, financial controls framework across the business unit, including ownership for coordination of governance returns to Sector & Group.
• Finance lead for coordination of risk reporting submissions, ensuring risk register outputs are reflected in controls improvement plan.
• Review implementation of accounting policies and relevant accounting standards, ensuring financial controls are in place, compliant with IFRS15, IFRS16 and IAS 19
• Ensure that accounting judgements, including long term contract accounting judgements, are appropriately reviewed and documented.

Essential experience of the FP&A Reporting Manager

• Knowledge of financial accounting, reporting and legal standards
• Proven capability to positively influence multiple communities with the aim of ensuring focussed delivery whilst preserving individuals, & teams along the way
• Expert in financial accounting, systems and processes with a proven track record of control assurance and enhancement
• Extensive experience in the use of Microsoft Office suite of applications (including Excel, PowerPoint, Word and Outlook) and financial modelling including Power Query.
• Experience of ERP systems and finance consolidation tools (Preferably SAP)
• Experience of working in large organisations with geographically spread stakeholders

37.5 hour working week. Full time offering Hybrid working (c3 days onsite per week)

Qualifications for the FP&A Reporting Manager

• Recognised Professional Qualification e.g. (ICAS, ICAEW, CIMA or ACCA) with demonstrable PQE experience in a similar FP&A role

Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain BPSS clearance level 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

Babcock International   
For over a century Babcock International have 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 03/03/25