Finance Business Partner

Finance Business Partner

Location: Bristol, GB, BS11 0YA

Onsite or Hybrid: Hybrid Working Arrangements

Job Title: Finance Business Partner

Location: City, County + Hybrid Working Arrangements

Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF70718

At Babcock, we're working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Finance Business Partner at Ashton House, near Bristol.

The Role

As a Finance Business Partner, you will play a vital role in driving the financial performance of our Mission Systems business, supporting programmes across the Sense and Connect area, including ISTAR and Cyber. This is an opportunity to join a team at the forefront of delivering innovative defence, aerospace and engineering solutions - work that directly contributes to national security and helps create a safer world.

In this role, you will apply your financial expertise to influence decision making, improve reporting processes and strengthen operational understanding. It's a position that grows your professional capabilities, strengthens your strategic impact and places you at the centre of high profile projects.

Day-to-day, you'll be required to:

• Build strong, collaborative relationships with cost centre managers and bid teams, providing monthly reporting with detailed variance analysis.
• Produce and review monthly Balance Sheet reconciliations and overhead review packs, ensuring accuracy and timely delivery.
• Deliver high-quality financial forecasting and support wider business planning activities.
• Review ongoing projects to ensure accurate trading margins and profit maximisation.
• Lead monthly performance reviews with operational teams, offering insights, challenge and recommendations.

This role is full time, 37 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with days in the office and days working from home.

Essential experience of the Finance Business Partner

• Bringing a proactive, solutions-focused mindset with the ability to simplify complex financial data.
• Demonstrating strong stakeholder management skills across diverse and technical teams.
• Applying experience in a Finance Business Partnering role, with the ability to interpret and present financial insights clearly.
• Showing a track record of driving high performance and continuous improvement.
• Experience using the IFS finance system (desirable).

Qualifications for the Finance Business Partner

• Ideally a qualified Accountant - ACA, ACCA or CIMA preferred.

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Developed Vetting (DV) 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 ().

What We Offer

• 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 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.