Lead Finance Business Partner

As a Lead Finance Business Partner, you'll have a role that's out of the ordinary. This role supports the customers mission which fully supports Babcock's mission to create a safer world together. Partnering with the Portfolio Lead and reporting to the Finance Director, you will head up a team and take responsibility for all aspects of the contract accounting. Day-to-day, you'll have a mixture of "hands on" work whilst also delegating to your team of 3; within the bounds of governance controls, delegated authorities and oversight that form company policy across contracts, you will be given autonomy to lead the area in the way you see fit.

• Providing financial information for forecasting, budget and contract performance including 'estimate at completion'.
• Line management responsibilities of team members, including overseeing their continued development and growth.
• Providing business stakeholders with meaningful and accurate information, that empowers them to drive financial performance of the area.
• Collaborating with project managers, assisting them with their understanding of financial issues so they are equipped to foresee financial risks before they arise and take pre-emptive mitigating action.
This role is full time, 37 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with 1 day in the onsite and 4 days working from home. However, you may be required for more days if the project demands.

Essential Experience of the Lead Finance Business Partner
• Ability to understand requirements and tasking as well as influence others around them.
• Be able to articulate and present financial issues to both finance and non-finance audiences in a clear concise way.
• Experience in understanding complex issues (balancing the detail and the big picture), using insight/data (evidence) and their judgement to make good decisions and have a positive impact.
• Excellent excel skills.
Qualifications for the Lead Finance Business Partner
• Ideally would hold a recognised accounting qualification (The Association of Chartered Certified Accountants, Associate Chartered Accountant, The Chartered Institute of Management Accountants, Associate Chartered Management Accountant, The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland, The Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales) or equivalent / similar. (However, we would consider people with significant experience.)
Security Clearance The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role.

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 Lead Finance Business Partner at our Ashton Vale. Bristol site.

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
• Flexible working - we give people more options to better integrate their work and personal life, whilst ensuring that business needs are met
• Potential to develop skills
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.