Job Title: Finance Manager
Location: Telford, Shropshire + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: Up to £71,600 Dependent on Experience + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF74360
Drive Performance. Shape Decisions. Support National Defence.
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 Manager at our Donnington site, near Telford, Shropshire.
The role
As a Finance Manager, you'll provide strategic financial business partnering across the Defence Support Group (DSG) contract, delivering insight, challenge and support to operational leaders. This is a highly visible role that combines commercial finance, financial planning, forecasting and data analysis, giving you the opportunity to influence key decisions across multiple sites and functions.
Day-to-day, you'll be required to:
- Provide financial business partnering support to operational leadership teams across the DSG contract.
- Produce budgets, forecasts, performance reports and variance analysis to support decision-making.
- Manage and developing complex financial models, including labour forecasting tools.
- Analyse large and complex datasets to identify trends, risks and opportunities.
- Support financial control, contract performance and long-term business planning activities.
The role is based in a hybrid working arrangement at DSG Donnington, with 37 hours per week, Monday to Friday. Hybrid working patterns are available. Travel to DSG Catterick will be required on a monthly basis.
Essential experience of the Finance Manager:
- Strong commercial finance experience.
- Proven finance business partnering experience within an industry environment.
- Strong experience of budgeting, forecasting and variance analysis.
- Advanced Excel skills with experience building and managing complex financial models.
- Ability to analyse and interpret large volumes of data and provide clear, actionable insights.
Qualifications for the Finance Manager:
- Qualified CIMA, ACCA or equivalent professional accounting qualification.
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