Job Title: Finance Business Partner
Location: Ashton Vale, Bristol + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF
Build the Future with Us
At Babcock, we’re shaping a safer, more secure world and you can be part of it. Join our Mission Systems team as a Finance Business Partner and help drive innovation and performance across critical programmes.
Our ambitions are big. Your role will make them possible.
The Role
As a Finance Business Partner, you’ll be the trusted advisor for a portfolio of high-profile contracts providing insight, driving efficiency, and enabling smarter decisions. You’ll work hand-in-hand with operational leaders to improve processes, strengthen controls, and deliver robust reporting that powers strategic choices.
This isn’t just finance, it’s about influencing outcomes and shaping the future of our business.
Day-to-day, you’ll be required to:
1. Own financial performance for key contracts within Mission Systems Effectors
2. Deliver accurate forecasts, ensure strong trading margins, and identify profit opportunities
3. Lead cash management reporting and maintain financial models for current and future projects
4. Support audits, provide analysis for new business, and deputise for the Lead Finance Business Partner when needed
5. Be the go-to expert for programme and finance teams making complex concepts clear and actionable
This role is full time, 37 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with 1-2 days onsite and the rest of the week working from home.
Essential experience of the Finance Business Partner
6. Strong analytical capability and confidence working with high volumes of data.
7. Excellent Excel skills, including pivot tables and data modelling.
8. Ability to collaborate effectively with stakeholders across finance, project management, and commercial functions.
9. Excellent communication skills and a proactive, team-focused mindset
Qualifications for the Finance Business Partner
10. Ideally you will be a qualified or part‑qualified accountant (CIMA preferred) or actively working towards qualification.
11. Experience with ERP systems and IFRS15 long-term contract accounting 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
12. Generous holiday allowance
13. Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
14. Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
15. Employee share scheme
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. There is an annual Window to request this benefit. ‘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
20. Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.
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.
We are a disability confident committed employer.