Head of FP&A Full Time

Bristol, Gloucestershire
Manpower Group (UK)
Job Title: Head of FP&A
Location: Bristol + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF54992

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 Head of FP&A at our Bristol site.

The Role
As a Head of FP&A, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. Working as a part of our Mission Systems business unit, which is an internal sector within the Babcock International Group. Working on a range of exciting design, manufacture and support projects, Mission Systems works with a number of key clients domestically and internationally.

Day to day, you’ll be reporting to the CFO and leading a team of accountants and reporting analysts to ensure management information is collected and reported in an accurate, timely and meaningful way; providing senior management with the data and tools to support key decision making for the business:

• Acting as the main point of contact for value stream reporting issues and requirements for the Mission Systems CFO and their business facing Heads of Finance.
• Providing leadership, guidance and mentoring support to the Mission Systems FP&A team.
• Overseeing the Mission Systems monthly reporting processes, including accounts preparation for the various reporting entities, including overseas businesses, and value stream analysis.
• Managing and overseeing the annual budget and monthly forecasting processes for the value stream.

This role is a full-time position, contracted at 37 hours a week and will be based at our Bristol site, with hybrid working from home 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 Head of FP&A:

• Demonstratable FP&A experience.
• Excellent Excel modelling skills.
• Ability and desire to take a hands-on approach, willing to get into the detail but also see the big picture.
• Strong influencer and communicator, with the ability to work with individuals at various levels of the organisation.
• Experience in a similar industry is highly desirable.

Qualifications for the Head of FP&A:

• You must hold a recognised accounting 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
• Matched contribution pension scheme up to 8% of salary, 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.

Closing date: 20/12/2023

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