Job Title: Head of Finance
Location: Rosyth, Fife + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: Competitive + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF
Shape the financial future of global defence programmes
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 Finance at our Rosyth site.
The role
As a Head of Finance, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You will play a pivotal leadership role at the heart of Babcock’s expansion into the Indo‑Pacific region while maintaining strong financial governance across key UK naval programmes. This is a unique opportunity to combine strategic leadership with international reach, shaping how critical defence and engineering programmes are financed, governed and delivered.
Day‑to‑day you’ll be required to:
1. Leading the end‑to‑end financial setup of Babcock’s Indonesian subsidiary, ensuring compliant legal, tax and governance structures
2. Overseeing financial control, reporting and risk management across multi‑year defence programmes
3. Developing commercial pricing models and bid support for complex international tenders
4. Managing treasury, banking and foreign exchange activities across multiple currencies
5. Partnering with senior stakeholders to ensure programmes are commercially robust, compliant and sustainable
Please note that this position involves travel/working across a range of internal and customer sites, as a requirement of the role.
This role is full time, 36 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with three days onsite. You will be expected to travel to Indonesia on a quarterly basis.
Essential experience of the Head of Finance
6. Proven experience establishing or supporting international entities, including legal and tax structuring
7. Strong background in project accounting and long‑term contract management
8. Experience operating within regulated environments, such as defence, aerospace, engineering or infrastructure
9. Demonstrated ability to lead financial governance, risk and controls at senior level
10. Commercial acumen supporting bids, pricing models and strategic decision‑making
Qualifications for the Head of Finance
11. Professionally qualified accountant: ACA, ACCA or CIMA or equivalent
12. Additional exposure to international tax, treasury or joint ventures would be advantageous
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be 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 .
What we offer
13. Generous holiday allowance
14. Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
15. Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
16. Employee shopping savings portal
17. Payment of Professional Fees
18. Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
19. 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.
20. ‘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
We’re Babcock — a global FTSE organisation with over 26, people working together to make a difference.
Here, you’ll be part of something bigger. From initial design to final decommissioning, your work will contribute to products and services that are essential to national security and public infrastructure. Together, we’re building a future that lasts — not just through the impact we make, but through meaningful careers that respect your work-life balance.
We call that lifetime engineering.
Join us and see how far we can go, together.
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