Job Title: Finance Business Partner
Location: Ashton Vale, Bristol + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent or Fixed Term Contract
Role ID: SF
At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Finance Business Partner across our Bristol sites.
The Role
As a Finance Business Partner, you’ll play a pivotal role in enabling smarter decisions across our Mission Systems business. This is an opportunity to be a trusted advisor on some of the UK’s most critical defence programmes, including work that contributes directly to national protection and future capability. You’ll influence performance, strengthen financial control, and support the successful delivery of high-profile, long-term contracts. It’s a role with real purpose, empowering your professional growth while shaping outcomes that matter.
Day-to-day, you’ll be required to:
1. Drive financial performance for key Mission Systems contracts, ensuring accuracy, insight, and strong trading margins.
2. Produce and present rolling forecasts for cost, profit, and cash flow, including consolidation at programme level.
3. Lead cash management reporting and maintain robust financial models to support current and future programmes.
4. Deliver governance reporting and financial packs, ensuring compliance with internal and government requirements.
5. Act as a trusted advisor to programme, commercial, and leadership teams—translating complex financial data into clear, actionable insights.
This role is full time, 37 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with days onsite and days working from home.
Essential experience of the Finance Business Partner
6. Experience as a finance business partner, project accountant, or cost accountant within a complex environment.
7. Strong analytical capability and confidence working with high volumes of data.
8. Excellent Excel skills, including pivot tables and data modelling.
9. Experience with long-term contract accounting and forecasting.
10. Ability to collaborate effectively with stakeholders across finance, project management, and commercial functions.
Qualifications for the Finance Business Partner
11. Ideally you will be a qualified or part‑qualified accountant (CIMA preferred) or actively working towards qualification.
12. Experience with ERP systems and IFRS15 long-term contract accounting would be advantageous.
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.
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 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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