Job Title: Finance Analyst
Location: Remote, UK
Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF
Shape Financial Insight That Powers A Safer, Secure World
At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Finance Analyst.
The role
As a Finance Analyst, you’ll play a vital role within our Group Financial Planning and Analysis team, supporting cash insight processes that drive strategic decision-making across the business. You’ll help provide clear visibility of our liquidity position while monitoring performance against cash targets, enabling better financial planning across our global operations.
Day-to-day, you will be responsible for:
1. Extracting and analysing financial data from multiple sources including ledgers, payroll, VAT returns and bank statements
2. Developing and maintaining robust cash forecasting models to support accurate reporting
3. Supporting monthly rolling forecast processes by delivering insightful data and analysis
4. Investigating and explaining variances between forecasts and actual results
5. Identifying opportunities to improve processes and enhance financial reporting efficiency
This is a remote, full-time role, 37.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday, with monthly travel to Bristol.
Essential Experience of the Finance Analyst:
6. Experience analysing and interpreting financial data to deliver clear insights
7. Strong Microsoft Excel skills, including building and maintaining financial models
8. Experience working with finance systems such as SAP, IFS or similar platforms
9. Proven ability to identify issues and implement process improvements
Qualifications for the Finance Analyst:
10. A relevant finance, accounting or business-related qualification or working towards one (e.g. AAT, ACCA, CIMA) is desirable
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Standard (BPSS) / 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 Babcock
We’re Babcock — a global FTSE organisation with over 26, people working together to make a difference.
Here, you’ll be part of something bigger. From initial design to final decommissioning, your work will contribute to products and services that are essential to national security and public infrastructure. Together, we’re building a future that lasts — not just through the impact we make, but through meaningful careers that respect your work-life balance.
We call that lifetime engineering.
Join us and see how far we can go, together.
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