Cost Specialist

Job Title:                      Cost Specialist

Location:                      Warrington, Cheshire + Hybrid Working Arrangement

Compensation:            Attractive Salary + Benefits

Role Type:                    Full time / Permanent

Role ID:                        SF68767

Shape the Future of Nuclear Services

At Cavendish Nuclear we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as a Cost Specialist at our Warrington, Cheshire site.

The role

As a Cost Specialist, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary.  You’ll be at the heart of our Spares and Kitting business within the Nuclear Services workstream. This is a dynamic role where you’ll combine cost management with project controls, ensuring financial accuracy and supporting key decision-making. 

Day-to-day, you'll be

• Supporting cost engineers with financial reporting and project controls activities.
• Managing profit and loss accounts, cash flow, and account balancing.
• Presenting cost data and statistical insights to inform management decisions.
• Monitoring delivery performance against customer KPIs.
• Contributing to the development of our in-house finance forecasting system.

This is a permanent position, working 37 hours per week. Hybrid working patterns are available, with three days on-site based in Warrington, Cheshire.

Essential experience of the Cost Specialist:

• Hands-on experience with profit and loss accounts, cash flow, and account balancing.
• Experience managing commercial elements of contracts, including payment terms and conditions.
• Strong financial reporting and analytical skills.

Qualifications for the Cost Specialist:

• Degree in a relevant field (preferred)

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Standard (BPSS) security clearance for this role. 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 Cavendish 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.

Cavendish

We’re Cavendish Nuclear — a team of c5,000 specialists and a core part of Babcock International Group.

Here, you’ll be part of something bigger. Across clean energy, defence, and civil decommissioning, your work will contribute to projects that are critical to energy security and national protection. Together, we’re shaping a future that lasts — not only through the impact we make, but through meaningful careers that respect your work-life balance. 

Join us and discover 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:   03/02/2026

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