Financial Reporting Manager

Job Title: Financial Reporting Manager
Location: Flexible, Various UK + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: Up to £65,000 + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF56147

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 Financial Reporting Manager at one of our many sites across the UK.

The Role
As a Financial Reporting Manager, you'll have a role that's out of the ordinary. Reporting to the Head of Reporting, Control & Efficiency, the Financial Reporting & Control Manager is a key position within the Finance Business Services (FBS) department, with focus on the Corporate business sector.

Day to day, you'll be managing the on-going transition and movement of tasks into the team as we continue to develop the FBS function; all whilst leading and managing capable and motivated people in delivering a high-quality service across the Sectors:

• Team management including objective setting, development plans, coaching and best practice.
• Work with the wider team to deliver standardisation of finance policies & processes across Babcock Finance, strengthening financial controls and optimising efficiencies.
• Responsible for oversight of financial governance and control, ensuring alignment to Accounting Standards and the Group's accounting policies and manuals across the Finance function, monitoring developments in IFRS and other GAAPs, to understand impact to the Group.
• Completion of statutory accounts and other compliance reporting for Corporate entities, including corporate tax.

This role is a full-time position, that is contracted at 37.5 hours a week. The successful candidate can work compliantly from any Babcock site or location. There may be a requirement to attend meetings whether that is face to face or virtually.

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 Financial Reporting Manager:

• Audit background with strong experience of statutory accounts preparation.
• Demonstrable experience of managing and developing a team within a Finance function.
• Experience in reviewing and improving finance processes with a fresh perspective.
• Technical finance skills, with proven ability to understand and interpret accounting principles (being able to explain technical accounting to non-technical, non-financial staff).
• Experience of Finance IT applications (e.g., SAP, NAV (Navision, IFS, etc.).

Qualifications for the Financial Reporting Manager:

• You must hold a recognised professional qualification (ACCA, ACA, ACMA, CIMA, ICAEW, ICAS) or equivalent / similar.

The successful candidate must be able to achieve SC security clearance for this role.

Our Benefits

• Generous holiday allowance
• Contributory Pension scheme, with life assurance
• 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 most 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

Babcock International
For over a century Babcock International have 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.

If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please let us know. 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.