Financial Control, Governance & Reporting Manager - Rail

Location: Glasgow, GB, G72 0LH

Onsite or Hybrid: Hamilton, South Lanarkshire + Hybrid Working

Compensation: Competitive Salary + Car Allowance + Annual Incentive Plan

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF62193

At Babcock we're working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as an FP&A Reporting Manager in our Rail sector.

The role

As an FP&A Reporting Manager within our Rail business, you'll be key to the business. Day to day, you will support the FP&A Director, responsible for governance, control and reporting, ensuring stakeholders receive accurate and timely financial data.

You will work closely with the Sector FP&A team and the SLT in preparing financial reporting deliverables, managing governance procedures including audits, risk reporting, technical accounting papers, legislative compliance and reviewing the implementation of accounting policies.

1. Overall management and responsibility for the production of rolling re-forecast, budget, monthly, quarterly, 6-monthly and annual reporting requirements.
2. Liaise closely with finance teams to complete management reporting, financial analysis and ad hoc reporting requests.
3. Maintain financial controls framework across the business unit, including coordination of governance returns to Sector & Group.
4. Finance lead for coordination of risk reporting submissions, ensuring risk register outputs are reflected in controls improvement plan.
5. Review implementation of accounting policies and relevant standards, ensuring compliance with IFRS15, IFRS16 and IAS 19.
6. Ensure accounting judgements are appropriately reviewed and documented.

Essential experience of the FP&A Reporting Manager

1. Knowledge of financial accounting, reporting and legal standards.
2. Capability to influence multiple communities for focused delivery while preserving individuals and teams.
3. Expert in financial accounting, systems and processes with a proven track record of control assurance and enhancement.
4. Extensive experience in Microsoft Office applications (Excel, PowerPoint, Word and Outlook) and financial modelling including Power Query.
5. Experience of ERP systems and finance consolidation tools (Preferably SAP).
6. Experience of working in large organisations with geographically spread stakeholders.

Qualifications for the FP&A Reporting Manager

1. Recognised Professional Qualification e.g. (ICAS, ICAEW, CIMA or ACCA) with demonstrable PQE experience in a similar FP&A role.

Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain BPSS clearance level for this role.

What we offer

1. Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance.
2. Access to a Digital GP, annual health check and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare +.
3. Employee share scheme.
4. Employee shopping savings portal.
5. Payment of Professional Fees.
6. Reservists in the armed forces receive 10 days special paid leave.
7. Holiday Trading allows employees to buy additional leave or sell up to one working week of annual leave.
8. 'Be Kind Day' enables employees to take one day's paid leave to undertake volunteering work.

Babcock International
For over a century Babcock International has helped to defend nations, protect communities and build a better world. We are committed to adapting and advancing as a sustainable business with a shared goal.

We are a disability confident committed employer. If you have a disability or need 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.

Closing Date: 03/03/25