Lead Finance Business Partner

Job Title:
Lead Finance Business Partner

Location:
Plymouth, Devon or Stoke Gifford, Bristol + Hybrid Working Arrangements

Compensation: £57,300 - £71,600 + Benefits

Role Type:
Full time / Permanent

Role

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 Babcock Technology Centre or Devonport Royal Dockyard site.

As a Lead Finance Business Partner within our Transformation team, you'll play a pivotal role in evaluating investments, building robust business cases and ensuring major programmes deliver sustainable value. Working closely with senior leaders and stakeholders, you'll influence decision-making, support business improvement initiatives and help drive operational excellence across a complex engineering and defence environment.

Day-to-day, you'll provide financial leadership and strategic insight to support business transformation and performance improvement. You'll help shape investment decisions, evaluate financial opportunities and risks, and ensure financial plans align with business objectives. This is an exciting opportunity to develop your leadership profile while contributing to projects and programmes that support national security and critical infrastructure.

• Driving transformation and business improvement initiatives across the organisation.
• Developing business cases, financial appraisals and investment evaluations to support strategic decision-making.
• Partnering with finance and operational teams to deliver accurate budgeting, forecasting, reporting and cost control.
• Identifying financial risks and implementing effective mitigation strategies.
• Supporting the delivery of finance transformation plans and ensuring benefits are realised.

This role is full time, 35 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements.

• Experience working in a senior finance leadership or business partnering role.
• Experience maximising financial performance and supporting business growth.
• Strong investment appraisal and business case development experience.
• Demonstrable experience supporting or leading business transformation, finance transformation or large-scale change programmes.
• Experience developing transformation business cases

• Relevant professional accounting qualification such as CIMA or ACCA.

• Additional finance, commercial or business transformation qualifications.
• Professional memberships relevant to finance leadership and business partnering.

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 -  ().

• Generous holiday allowance
• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
• Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva Digi Care+
• 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…