Finance Analyst

Job Title: Finance Analyst
Location: Flexible, United Kingdom + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: Up to £60,000 (Dependent on Experience) + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF59795

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 Analyst.

The Role
As a Finance Analyst, you'll have a role that's out of the ordinary. With your skillsets and expertise, you'll be playing a key role in identifying areas for process and system improvements, including quantifying potential business.

Day-to-day, you'll take responsibility for business analysis services across Babcock's IFS estate, defining and understanding the clients' business process, functions, and data. You'll be working closely with our product owners, stakeholders, and subject matter experts by recommending appropriate options and defining priority.

This role is full time, 37.5 hours per week and is fully remote.

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 Finance Analyst:

• IFS Functional experience is required (Finance, HR, P&SC, Maintenance etc).
• Possess broad understanding of business and business activities with deep knowledge in at least one area of specialisation.
• Demonstrate a systematic, disciplined analytical approach to problem solving.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Finance background.

Qualifications for the Finance Analyst:

• Ideally, hold a IT HND / bachelor's degree or hold relevant experience in Finance / Business / Systems / Functional Analysis.
• Holding or working towards a recognised professional accounting qualification (ACCA, ACA, ACMA, CIMA, ICAEW, ICAS) or equivalent is highly desirable but, not required.

Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be a sole UK national who is 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 United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels.

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.

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 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.