IFS Finance Functional Analyst

Job Title:              IFS Finance Functional Analyst
Location:              Flexible, UK + Hybrid Working Arrangements 
Compensation:    Attractive Salary + Benefits
Role Type:            Full time / Permanent 
Role ID:                SF59795

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 IFS Finance Functional Analyst.

The role
As a IFS Finance Functional Analyst, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. This is a key role in identifying areas for process and system improvements, including quantifying potential business.

Day-to-day, you’ll take responsibility for business analysis services across Babcock’s IFS estate, defining and understanding the clients’ business process, functions, and data.

• Responsible for investigative work in IFS to support business requirements and specify effective business processes, through improvements to processes, information systems, or organisation change.
• Conduct investigations for strategy studies, business requirements specifications and feasibility studies. Prepare business cases which define potential benefits, options for achieving these benefits through development of new or changed processes, and associated business risks.
• Use data analysis and modelling techniques to develop and maintain data structures to support business solutions, ensuring adherence to corporate data standards and provide advice and guidance to developers.
• Application of methods to identify user experience to ensure user friendly processes – user characteristics and tasks and the technical, organisational, and physical environment that they operate in.

This role is full time, 37.5 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements. Ideally, you will be within suitable travel distance of any Babcock Hubs.

Essential experience of the IFS Finance Functional Analyst:

• IFS Functional experience is required. 
• Possess broad understanding of business and business activities with a specialisation in Finance. 
• Demonstrate a systematic, disciplined analytical approach to problem solving.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.  

Qualifications for the IFS Finance Functional Analyst:

• IT HND/bachelor’s Degree level or hold relevant experience in Business/Systems/Functional Analysis.

Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be a sole UK national who is able to achieve and maintain Standard (BPSS) 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: 24/10/2024