Senior Cost Controller

Job Title:                      Senior Cost Controller

Location:                      Plymouth, Devon

Compensation:            £43,935.00 + Benefits

Role Type:                    Full time / Permanent

Role ID:                        SF70729

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 Senior Cost Controller at our Devonport Royal Dockyard site.

The role

As a Senior Cost Controller, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You’ll enhance project performance and stability through the collection, analysis, and reporting of meaningful cost information, enabling informed decision-making at program and project levels. This is your chance to make a real impact on national security while advancing your career in a dynamic and innovative environment.

Day-to-day, you’ll oversee cost performance baselines, manage changes, deliver accurate monthly reports, analyse data to drive decisions, and coordinate forecasts across the project.

• Managing actuals against multiple cost performance baselines
• Managing change across performance baselines
• Producing internal and external monthly reporting
• Conducting data analysis and providing recommendations
• Coordinating forecasts from activity owners

This role is full time, 35 hours per week and is based on site at Devonport Royal Dockyard

Essential experience of the Senior Cost Controller

• Experience in a cost control or cost management environment
• Understanding of project controls, including cost control, earned value, finance, scheduling, or estimating
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills
• Data analysis experience with proficiency in Excel
• Personal effectiveness and drive

Qualifications for the Senior Cost Controller

• Degree-level education or APMP qualification (or equivalent experience)
• Experience with cost management systems (e.g. Cobra, Ecosys)

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Standard (BPSS) / 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: 21/01/2026

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