About the role

  • Finance Business Partner driving financial performance and providing insights for key Mission Systems contracts. Collaborating with teams to strengthen financial control and support long-term project delivery.

Responsibilities

  • Drive financial performance for key Mission Systems contracts, ensuring accuracy, insight, and strong trading margins.
  • Produce and present rolling forecasts for cost, profit, and cash flow, including consolidation at programme level.
  • Lead cash management reporting and maintain robust financial models to support current and future programmes.
  • Deliver governance reporting and financial packs, ensuring compliance with internal and government requirements.
  • Act as a trusted advisor to programme, commercial, and leadership teams—translating complex financial data into clear, actionable insights.

Requirements

  • Experience as a finance business partner, project accountant, or cost accountant within a complex environment.
  • Strong analytical capability and confidence working with high volumes of data.
  • Excellent Excel skills, including pivot tables and data modelling.
  • Experience with long-term contract accounting and forecasting.
  • Ability to collaborate effectively with stakeholders across finance, project management, and commercial functions.
  • Ideally you will be a qualified or part‑qualified accountant (CIMA preferred) or actively working towards qualification.
  • Experience with ERP systems and IFRS15 long-term contract accounting would be advantageous.
  • The successful candidate must be a SOLE UK National who is able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role.

Benefits

  • 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.
  • ‘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.

Job title

Finance Business Partner

Job type

Experience level

Junior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Professional Certificate

Tech skills

Location requirements

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