Lead Finance Business Partner

Job Title:                     Lead Finance Business Partner

Location:                     Ashton Vale, Bristol + Hybrid Working Arrangements

Compensation:           Competitive Salary + Benefits

Role Type:                   Full time / Permanent

Role ID:                       SF70711

At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Lead Finance Business Partner at Ashton House, near Bristol.

The Role

As a Lead Finance Business Partner, you’ll play a pivotal role in supporting one of our most dynamic engineering portfolios. This is an exciting opportunity to shape financial strategy within Mission Systems, partnering closely with senior stakeholders and leading a small high‑performing team. Your insight will directly influence programmes that support defence, aerospace and national security - making every decision you support part of something bigger.

This role will allow you to grow your leadership impact, broaden your financial expertise, and work at the heart of engineering projects that help build a safer world.

Day-to-day, you’ll be:

• Producing accurate financial information to support forecasting, budgeting and contract performance.
• Leading and developing a small finance team, supporting their growth and capability.
• Providing high‑quality financial insight that empowers stakeholders to make informed decisions.
• Partnering with project managers to help them understand financial drivers, risks and opportunities.
• Working across Mission Systems to ensure accountability and clarity in financial planning and performance.

This role is full time, 37 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with days in the office and days working from home.

Essential experience of the Lead Finance Business Partner

• Strong communication and influencing skills, with the ability to work effectively across finance and non‑finance teams.
• A proactive, self‑starting approach, with the drive to make a positive impact.
• Ability to present complex financial information clearly and concisely.
• Skilled in managing workload, priorities and stakeholders in a fast‑paced environment.
• Strong analytical capability with excellent Excel skills.

Qualifications for the Lead Finance Business Partner

Essential:

• A recognised accounting qualification (ACCA, ACA, CIMA, ACMA, ICAS, ICAEW), or equivalent significant applicable experience.

Desirable:

• Experience mentoring or supporting junior finance colleagues.
• Exposure to business partnering in a complex engineering, defence or technology environment.

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. There is an annual Window to request this benefit. ‘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

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: 10/02/2026

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