Job Title: Senior Finance Manager
Location: Belfast, Antrim + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF58690
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 Senior Finance Manager at our Belfast site.
The Role
As a Senior Finance Manager, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. Working alongside a Line of Business Management Team with accountability for supporting and managing the delivery and maximisation of the financial performance for a portfolio of Babcock Rail Contracts.
Day-to-day, you’ll be ensuring robust financial controls, strong corporate governance, production of timely and meaningful financial analysis and continuous improvement of financial processes:
- Work with the Line of Business management team in assuring and enhancing the processes used to operate and control performance.
- Lead and develop a project finance team to provide high quality business partnering support to the line of business management and contract project teams.
- Ensuring financial targets are delivered or exceeded wherever possible including the successful tender and conversion of Framework delivery, Rebids and Re-lets.
- Identify, drive and deliver continuous improvements to the financial processes, procedures and operating practices.
- Ensure the Line of Business fiance team are appropriately resourced and managed to deliver effectively.
This role is full time, 35 hours per week and requires regular travel to Belfast on a weekly basis alongside home working arrangements.
Agile working may be available to employees in some instances, applying the principles of fairness and consistency whilst ensuring that the overriding business needs can be appropriately met. We are happy to consider flexible, blended working, including part-time, condensed hours, and job sharing. Please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.
Essential Experience of the Senior Finance Manager:
- Demonstratable experience in a construction / project-based environment.
- Strong business / process analysis and modelling skills including bid and tender production and review.
- Ability to assess business risks, issues and mitigating actions, with experience of implementing such actions.
- Effective line management capability with a proven track record for maximising team delivery and output
- Experience of working with Commercial and Project Operational teams.
Qualifications for the Senior Finance Manager:
- You must hold a recognised professional accounting qualification (ACA, ACCA, ACMA, CIMA, ICAEW, ICAS) or equivalent / similar.
What we Offer:
- Generous holiday allowance
- Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
- Employee share scheme
- Employee shopping savings portal
- Payment of Professional Fees
- 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
- Flexible working – we give people more options to better integrate their work and personal life, whilst ensuring that business needs are met.
- Autonomy to perform the role.
- 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: 06/11/2024
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