Lead Finance Business Partner

Job Title:                     Lead Finance Business Partner

Location:                     Plymouth, Devon

Compensation:            £57,300 - £71,600 Dependant on experience + Benefits

Role Type:                   Full time / Permanent

Role ID:                       SF75283

Shape the Future of Business Performance and Transformation

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 in Plymouth.

The role

As a Lead Finance Business Partner, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You'll play a pivotal role in supporting strategic decision-making across the business. Working closely with finance and operational leaders, you'll help maximise financial performance, shape investment decisions, and support transformation programmes that drive long-term success.

This role offers the opportunity to combine senior financial leadership with business partnering and continuous improvement. You'll influence high-value initiatives, develop robust business cases, and provide insight that directly contributes to operational excellence and business growth. In doing so, you'll help support programmes that contribute to national security and critical infrastructure while developing your own leadership and strategic finance expertise.

Day-to-day, you’ll be required to

• Drive financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, reporting and cost control activities to ensure robust business performance.
• Support investment appraisals, financial evaluations and business case development for transformation initiatives.
• Lead transformation and business improvement strategies that enhance operational and financial outcomes.
• Identify financial risks and implementing effective mitigation and control measures.
• Promote a strong health, safety and continuous improvement culture across the business.

This is a Full-time role, working 35 hours per week, based at our Devonport Royal Dockyard in Plymouth.

Essential experience of the Lead Finance Business Partner

• Experience working within a senior finance leadership or business partnering role.
• Experience driving financial performance, growth and value creation.
• Strong investment appraisal and business case development experience.
• Knowledge of commercial, procurement and operational considerations including costs, risks and margins.
• Strong understanding of financial accounting, reporting requirements and relevant legal standards.

Qualifications for the Lead Finance Business Partner

Essential

• Relevant professional accounting qualification such as Chartered Institute of Management Accountants or Association of Chartered Certified Accountants.

Desirable

• Additional leadership, business transformation or strategic finance qualifications would be advantageous.

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: 27/08/2026

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