Job Description

Job Title: Finance Business Partner
Location: Helensburgh, Argyll and Bute + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: 46,000 - 52,000 depending on experience + 15% Bonus + Healthcare
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF70784
Shape the Future with Babcock
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 Finance Business Partner at our HMNB Clyde Faslane site.
The role
As a Finance Business Partner, you'll have a role that's out of the ordinary. You'll be at the heart of our financial strategy, supporting and analysing key contracts that serve both internal and external requirements. This is an exciting opportunity to influence decision-making at a strategic level, ensuring accurate, timely, and insightful financial information that drives performance and efficiency. Your work will make a real difference - not just to Babcock, but to national security and infrastructure.
Day-to-day, you'll have the following responsibilities:

• Provide accurate and timely financial information for specific contracts
• Work with senior leaders to develop reporting and financial management processes
• Drive improvements in finance processes and resource utilisation
• Lead on forecasting and setting financial targets for costs, savings, and opportunities
• Support KPI delivery at a strategic level.

This role is full time, 36 hours per week Monday to Thursday and provides hybrid working arrangements with 2 days in the office/onsite and 2 days working from home.
Essential experience of the Finance Business Partner

• Newly Qualified, Part Qualified, or actively working towards qualification
• Strong background in finance procedures and the end-to-end finance process.
• Have introduced process improvements and confident engaging with stakeholders at all levels
• Project accounting experience
• Excellent Excel skills

Qualifications for the Finance Business Partner

• Professional finance qualification (or working towards one)
• Additional qualifications in project accounting or related fields are advantageous.

Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be 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 .
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 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. 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

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.
Closing date: 18/02/2026
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