Finance Assistant

Job Title:               Finance Assistant
Location:              Chatham, Kent, or Minley, Hampshire or Portsmouth, Hampshire + Hybrid Working Arrangements 
Compensation:    £29,265 pro rata + Benefits
Role Type:            Part time / Permanent 
Role ID:                SF63978

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 Assistant at either our Chatham, Kent, our Minley, Hampshire or our Portsmouth, Hampshire sites. 

The role
As a Finance Assistant, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. This is a key role within the contract performance with a focus on cash generation, budgeting and forecasting.

Day-to-day, you’ll assist in the reporting of the contract monthly accounts, budgets and forecasts, ensure billing is accurate and timely, assist in the preparation of key financial data in support of customer and stakeholder management and provide support to pricing activity and the associated governance process.

• Customer billing and related query resolution.

• Prepare customer facing balance sheet control account reconciliations and perform rectification actions required to resolve queries or issues.

• Prepare contract specific journals.

• Assist Management Accountant in monthly Cost Reviews with Operations.

• Ensure integrity of accounting data via robust, timely transactional processing and establish, create and maintain appropriate processes to ensure effective financial and business controls.

This role is part time, 22 hours per week and requires regular travel to Portsmouth on a weekly / monthly basis alongside home working arrangements.

Essential experience of the Finance Assistant

• Extensive experience in the use of Microsoft Office 2010 suite of applications including Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Outlook, and Sharepoint.

• Experience of Finance IT applications (e.g. SAP, Navision, IFS etc.) 

• Previous experience of working in a very process driven role.

Qualifications for the Finance Assistant
We value difference and don’t have a fixed idea when it comes to background or education, provided you can show the required level of experience and/or willingness to learn then we would like to hear from you. 

Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Clearance (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. 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

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: 27/05/2025

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