Lead Finance Business Partner

Job Title:                     Lead Finance Business Partner

Location:                     Plymouth, Devon + Hybrid Working Arrangements

Compensation:           Starting Salary from £57,300 + Benefits

Role Type:                   Full time / Permanent

Role ID:                        SF75290

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 Lead Finance Business Partner at our Devonport Royal Dockyard site.

The role

As a Lead Finance Business Partner, you’ll be at the heart of driving financial governance, control, and business performance across a complex and dynamic organisation. This is an opportunity to combine technical accounting expertise with strategic influence, partnering with senior leaders to strengthen financial controls, improve reporting processes, and support critical business decision-making.

Day-to-day, you’ll work within a sector that delivers essential support to defence, engineering, and national infrastructure programmes, you'll play a key role in ensuring robust financial stewardship and operational excellence. This position offers significant visibility across the business and is ideal for an experienced finance professional who enjoys leading change, solving complex challenges, and developing innovative solutions that create lasting impact.

• Leading financial governance, internal controls, and compliance activities to strengthen the control environment across the business.
• Managing internal and external audits, acting as the primary point of contact and ensuring actions are delivered effectively.
• Reviewing month-end reporting, financial results, journals, and accounting transactions to ensure accuracy and compliance.
• Providing technical accounting guidance and support to finance teams, helping interpret financial reporting standards and requirements.
• Driving finance transformation, process improvement, automation initiatives, and stakeholder engagement to enhance business performance.

This role is full time, 35 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements.

Essential experience of the Lead Finance Business Partner

• Strong technical accounting experience gained within practice, audit, or a complex commercial environment, including knowledge of financial reporting standards and IFRS 15.
• Proven ability to manage multiple priorities, work independently, and deliver high-quality outcomes within demanding deadlines.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills with experience influencing senior leaders and working across large organisations.
• Advanced analytical, financial modelling, and communication skills with the ability to translate complex financial information into actionable insights.
• Demonstrable problem-solving capability, commercial awareness, adaptability, and a collaborative approach to leadership

Qualifications for the Lead Finance Business Partner

Essential

• ACA, ACCA, or equivalent professional accounting qualification.

Desirable

• Experience supporting finance transformation, governance improvement, or audit leadership initiatives.

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be a sole UK National who is 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: 19/08/2026

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