Job Title: Finance Manager
Location: Flexible, UK + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: Excellent Salary + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF69402
Drive Strategic Growth Through Financial Leadership
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.
The role
As a Finance Manager, you’ll play a pivotal role in shaping the financial strategy behind our most exciting bids and growth projects across the Land and UK Aviation sectors. This is a dynamic opportunity to lead financial modelling and analysis that directly influences our ability to win new business and deliver innovative solutions in defence, aerospace and engineering.
Day-to-day you’ll be:
- Leading financial modelling and analysis for bids and strategic growth projects.
- Acting as the key finance contact within bid teams, ensuring financial integrity throughout.
- Developing bespoke models for workforce planning, pricing strategies and investment decisions.
- Supporting mergers, acquisitions, budgeting and forecasting activities.
- Ensuring compliance with internal policies and governance throughout the bid lifecycle.
The role is remote, and the set working times are 37 hours per week, Monday to Friday. Travel to customer and Babcock sites across the South will be expected.
Essential experience of the Finance Manager:
- Strong commercial experience in a project-based environment.
- Proven ability to partner with external stakeholders and clients.
- Skilled in data analysis and presenting clear financial insights.
- Experience in financial leadership within bids or strategic projects.
- Advanced Excel modelling skills and proficiency in MS Office.
Qualifications for the Finance Manager:
- Recognised professional qualification (ACA, CIMA, ACCA) with strong post-qualified experience.
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 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: 17/11/2025