Job Title: Finance Manager
Location: Plymouth, Devon or Bristol + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF
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 Plymouth or Bristol sites.
The Role
As a Finance Manager, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. Providing critical business partnering support to the NSIGN bid directors, as well as other key supporting functions and the wider Marine Programmes leadership and delivery teams. You will be pivotal in developing Babcock’s support solution, assisting the bid and business leadership teams to enhance our position as a long-term partner to the MoD through an improved and longer contractual agreement.
Day-to-day, you’ll use your knowledge and experience of how Babcock delivers surface ship support to the MoD to agree key assumptions and influence pricing decisions during the bid. Leaning on this experience, you will build strong working relationships with key stakeholders across the enterprise, including the delivery teams, Project Managers and key customer contacts, to ensure best practice is followed, prior lessons are learned and ultimately financial performance is maximised:
1. Finance lead for a bid; main point of contact for the bid team.
2. Management of bid costs to ensure all costs are captured, understood, reviewed and recovered.
3. Liaison with customer bid teams, attendance at customer workshops.
4. Provision of financial assumptions for bidding and internal forecasting purposes.
5. Integral part of the Marine Programmes finance team, assisting Head of Finance and Finance Director where necessary.
This role is full time, 35 hours per week and requires regular travel to Plymouth or Bristol, on a weekly basis alongside home working arrangements.
Essential Experience of the Finance Manager:
6. Strong communicator, ability to work with individuals at various levels of the organisation.
7. Ability and desire to take a hands-on approach, willing to get into the detail but also see the big picture.
8. Drive for continuous improvement, and comfortable questioning the status quo.
9. Strong character; willing and comfortable to challenge.
Qualifications for the Finance Manager:
10. You must hold a recognised professional accounting qualification (ACA, ACCA, CIMA) or equivalent / similar.
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.
What we Offer:
11. Generous holiday allowance
12. Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
13. Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
14. Employee share scheme
15. Employee shopping savings portal
16. Payment of Professional Fees
17. Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
18. 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.
19. ‘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
20. Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.