Lead Finance Business Partner

About the Role

At Babcock, we are dedicated to creating a safe and secure world. As a Lead Finance Business Partner, you will play a pivotal leadership role in supporting financial governance, compliance, and strategic decision-making for the Single Source Rates programme.

Your expertise will ensure that pricing, reporting, and cost structures align with regulatory requirements, facilitating accurate and insightful financial planning. You will operate at the intersection of finance, regulation, and programme delivery within a defence environment, directly supporting critical national infrastructure and defence programmes.

This role offers exposure to senior stakeholders, complex financial frameworks, and opportunities to drive improvements across systems and processes.

Key Responsibilities

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

Working Arrangements

This role offers flexibility, with the option to be 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

• 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

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 can achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role.

Please note that many positions within our company are subject to national security clearance and Trade Control restrictions. 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.

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 benefit
• 'Be Kind Day' for volunteering
• Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme.

About Babcock

Babcock is a global FTSE 100 organisation with over 26,000 people working together to make a difference. Your work will contribute to products and services essential to national security and public infrastructure. We are committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone’s free to thrive.

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 [email protected] with the subject header ‘Reasonable adjustments requirement’. We’re happy to talk about flexible working – please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.