Lead Finance Business Partner

Job Title:                     Lead Finance Business Partner

Location:                    UK, Flexible + Agile Working Arrangements

Compensation:           £57,300 - £71,600 Depending on Experience + Benefits

Role Type:                   Full time / Permanent

Role ID:                        SF74266

Shape financial strategy and governance across critical defence programmes

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 play a key leadership role in supporting financial governance, compliance and strategic decision-making across the Single Source Rates programme. You’ll ensure that pricing, reporting, and cost structures align with regulatory requirements, while enabling accurate and insightful financial planning.

Day-to-day, you’ll have the opportunity to work at the centre of finance, regulation and programme delivery in a defence environment. Your expertise will directly support critical national infrastructure and defence programmes, while giving you exposure to senior stakeholders, complex financial frameworks, and opportunities to drive improvement across systems and processes.

• Providing financial leadership and oversight across the Single Source Rates Programme.
• Ensuring compliance with Single Source regulations, governance standards, and reporting requirements.
• Supporting pricing activities through robust cost classification, analysis, and financial reporting.
• Building strong relationships with finance teams, bid teams, auditors, and senior stakeholders across the business.
• Driving continuous improvement of financial processes, systems, controls, and reporting activities.

Whilst this role offers the flexibility of being based either on-site at Devonport or remotely, candidates should be willing to undertake occasional travel to sites across England, Scotland, and Wales, alongside home-working arrangements.

Essential experience of the Lead Finance Business Partner

• Demonstrable knowledge of Single Source regulations and regulatory compliance requirements.
• Experience in financial reporting, cost classification, pricing activities, and financial analysis.
• Ability to interpret complex financial information while maintaining a strategic business perspective.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, with experience influencing at all levels.
• Experience supporting audits, governance activities, and process improvement initiatives.

Qualifications for the Lead Finance Business Partner

Essential:

• Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA, or equivalent).

Desirable:

• Experience working within defence, engineering, manufacturing, regulated industries, or complex project environments.
• Familiarity with ERP systems, cost modelling, and regulatory reporting processes

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: 28/07/2026

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