Finance Business Partner

The successful candidate will likely have the following responsibilities:

• Manage the month end close process; posting journals and providing analysis on a timely basis to stakeholders, ensuring they fully understand the variances and drivers impacting the month end actuals.
• Production of rolling monthly forecasts, annual Budgets, and long-term contract forecasting. These must be created with full collaboration of finance and non-finance stakeholders. Ensure that non finance stakeholders fully understand the components of their forecasts.
• Work with non-finance managers to improve their understanding and fluency in Finance. Ensuring that they can be held accountable for their forecast and can present finances in a competent manner.
• Responsible for ensuring that contract amounts are billed accurately, in full and on time to ensure efficient cash collection.
• Ensure appropriate accounting standards are applied including IFRS 15
• Perform financial reporting for internal and external stakeholder requirements including for Group.
• Provide financial support and partnering to the business in respect of contract change proposals including providing review and challenge to associated project business cases
• Prepare and present data and information on cost and contract performance, with suggestions and initiatives on how to improve performance to increase Babcock revenue, profitability and cashflow.
• Be responsible for the operation of best practice financial control and governance to ensure that costs recognised are allowable, attributable and reasonable within a regulated reporting environment.
• Support the business with delivery of change programmes required to achieve contractual commitments including changes to cost collection methodologies and time recording activities.
• Support finance department initiatives to improve consistency and efficiency of financial reporting including use of new tools and ways of working.