Job Title: Finance Business Partner
Location: Helensburgh, Argyll and Bute
Compensation: £46,000 - £59,500
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF70784
Shape the Future with Babcock
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 Clyde, near Helensburgh, Argyll and Bute.
The role
As a Finance Business Partner, you’ll be at the heart of our financial strategy, supporting and analysing key contracts that serve both internal and external requirements. This is an exciting opportunity to influence decision-making at a strategic level, ensuring accurate, timely, and insightful financial information that drives performance and efficiency. Your work will make a real difference — not just to Babcock, but to national security and infrastructure.
Day-to-day, you’ll have the following responsibilities:
- Provide accurate and timely financial information for specific contracts
- Work with senior leaders to develop reporting and financial management processes
- Drive improvements in finance processes and resource utilisation
- Lead on forecasting and setting financial targets for costs, savings, and opportunities
- Support KPI delivery at a strategic level.
You’ll be working full-time, Monday to Thursday, 36 hours per week. This role is a hybrid role with 2 days per week onsite and 2 days working from home.
Essential experience of the Finance Business Partner:
- Newly Qualified, Part Qualified, or actively working towards qualification
- Experience within a large, complex organisation
- Strong background in finance procedures and processes
- Project accounting experience
- Excellent Excel skills (experience in construction or similar industries is beneficial)
Qualifications for the Finance Business Partner:
- Professional finance qualification (or working towards one)
- Additional qualifications in project accounting or related fields are advantageous.
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) 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 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
- Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.
Babcock International
For over a century Babcock has helped to defend nations, protect communities and build a better world. To continue, we must adapt, advance and be a sustainable business with a shared goal.
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: 22/01/2026