Job Title: Finance Business Partner
Location: Helensburgh, Argyll and Bute + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: Up to £48,000 dependant on experience + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF74437
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 Finance Business Partner at our HMNB Clyde Faslane site.
The role
As a Finance Business Partner, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You’ll provide expert financial insight and support across key defence contracts. This is an exciting opportunity to influence decision-making, enhance financial performance and help shape the future of a complex and dynamic programme.
Day-to-day, you’ll be required to:
- Delivering accurate financial forecasting, budgeting and KPI reporting
- Partnering with operational teams to provide clear financial insight and influence decisions
- Analysing complex financial data and translating it into actionable recommendations
- Supporting contract performance through robust financial control and reporting
- Driving continuous improvement initiatives to enhance efficiency and value
This role is full time, 36 hours per week Monday to Thursday and provides hybrid working arrangements.
Essential experience of the Finance Business Partner
- Experience in financial forecasting, budgeting and reporting within a commercial or contract environment
- Proven ability to business partner with non-finance stakeholders and influence outcomes
- Strong analytical skills with experience interpreting complex financial data
- Advanced Excel and financial systems experience
- Experience in a large, complex or regulated environment such as defence, engineering or infrastructure is desirable
Qualifications for the Finance Business Partner
- Part-qualified or fully qualified CIMA, ACCA or equivalent
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 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 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
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: 09/07/2026
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