Finance business partner

Job Title: Finance Business Partner

Location: Ashton Vale, Bristol

Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF73674

Drive performance. Shape decisions. Power critical programmes.

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 at Ashton House, near Bristol, Somerset.

The role

As a Finance Business Partner, you’ll play a pivotal role in delivering financial leadership across a major, high-profile contract. Working at the heart of our Mission Systems business, you’ll support contract mobilisation, transition and long-term delivery ensuring strong financial foundations from day one.

This is a unique opportunity to operate as a trusted advisor within an operational leadership team, driving performance, influencing key decisions and providing commercial insight across complex defence and engineering programmes. You’ll thrive in a fast-paced, regulated environment, building your profile while contributing to projects that protect and support the UK.

Day-to-day, you’ll be:

• Leading financial mobilisation activity, establishing controls, reporting and forecasting processes
• Producing management accounts, forecasts and variance analysis to drive performance insights
• Building trusted relationships with programme and operational stakeholders to influence decision-making
• Identifying financial risks and opportunities, supporting bids, changes and growth initiatives
• Ensuring strong governance, compliance and continuous improvement across financial processes

This role is full time, 37 hours per week and is based at Ashton Vale, Bristol.

Essential experience of the Finance Business Partner

• Demonstrating significant experience in financial business partnering or project and contract finance
• Supporting contract mobilisation, transition or start-up activity within complex environments
• Applying strong knowledge of project accounting, forecasting and financial analysis
• Engaging confidently with senior stakeholders across finance and operations
• Delivering results in fast-paced environments with competing priorities and deadlines

Qualifications for the Finance Business Partner

• Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent)

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Standard (BPSS) / Security Check (SC) and Developed Vetting (DV) 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 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 the majority of employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement
• ‘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
• Flexible working – we give people more options to better integrate their work and personal life, whilst ensuring that business needs are met
• A dynamic working environment

Babcock

We’re Babcock — a global FTSE 100 organisation with over 26,000 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. 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: 17/06/2026