Job Title: Finance Business Partner

Location: Ashton Vale, Bristol + Hybrid Working Arrangements

Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF67500

The Role

As a Finance Business Partner, you'll be at the heart of our Mission Systems business, supporting strategic communications and secure operations across multiple projects. This is a dynamic opportunity to influence decision-making, drive performance, and shape the future of defence and engineering.

You'll work closely with operational teams to deliver robust financial insights, improve processes, and support growth initiatives. It's a role that offers variety, challenge, and the chance to grow into a senior leadership position.

Responsibilities

• Build strong relationships with cost centre managers and bidding teams, delivering monthly reports and variance analysis.
• Input into monthly balance sheet reconciliations and overhead reviews, ensuring timely and high-quality documentation.
• Complete forecasting requirements with precision and clarity.
• Review projects to maximise profit and ensure accurate trading margins.
• Lead monthly performance reviews with operational teams, offering insight and challenge where needed.

This role is full time, 37 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with 2 days onsite at Ashton Vale and Devonport and 3 days working from home.

This role involves supporting a range of remote projects based in Cumbria, with quarterly site visits required for a few days at a time.

Essential Experience

• Experience in a project-based Finance Business Partner role.
• Ability to solve complex problems with elegant, practical solutions.
• Proven track record of driving performance and embracing change.
• Strong Excel modelling and Microsoft Office skills.
• Flexibility to meet tight deadlines and adapt to evolving priorities.

Qualifications

• Ideally qualified or part-qualified Accountant (ACA, ACCA, or CIMA).
• Ability to interpret and present financial data clearly and concisely.

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. However, the successful candidate will be eligible to start on Standard (BPSS) but will need to obtain Security Check (SC) security clearance and possible Developed Vetting (DV) security clearance once in post.

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 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

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 UK Babcock employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement. This Window opens February through to March annually
• '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

About Babcock

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 careers@babcockinternational.com 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: 24/09/2025

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