Head of Commercial Finance Joint Ventures and Onshore in Hampshire, Portsmouth

Location: Gloucester, GB, GL51 6SP

Onsite or Hybrid: Hybrid

At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. We’re now looking for a Head of Commercial Finance – Joint Ventures and Onshore to play a critical leadership role within our Aviation business. This is a senior finance leadership role with accountability for financial performance, governance, and reporting across major aviation joint ventures and the onshore aviation portfolio. You’ll operate as a trusted partner to senior leaders, providing insight, challenge, and decision support to shape both strategic and operational outcomes.

The role:

• Reporting to the Aviation Finance Director, you’ll lead the Joint Ventures and Onshore finance team and act as a key member of the Aviation Senior Leadership Team.
• You’ll ensure strong financial control, robust governance, and high‑quality financial insight to support effective decision‑making and risk management across a complex portfolio.

Day‑to‑day, you will:

• Lead the financial management of Aviation Joint Ventures and Onshore operations, ensuring robust control and governance.
• Provide senior finance business partnering to Heads of Contract, Programme Managers, and Onshore leadership.
• Own forecasting, budgeting, and month‑end processes, delivering accurate and insightful financial information.
• Drive financial governance, risk management, and compliance in line with Group and regulatory requirements.
• Lead, develop, and motivate the Joint Ventures and Onshore finance team to deliver high‑quality outputs.

This is a full‑time, permanent role with hybrid working. The role is ideally based near Staverton, but we will consider UK wide candidates.

Essential experience:

• A collaborative finance leader with the ability to influence and challenge senior non‑finance stakeholders.
• Strong commercial and financial judgement, with the ability to translate complex data into clear insight.
• Sound understanding of financial governance, controls, and risk management.
• Experience working within complex contractual or joint venture environments (desirable).

Qualifications:

• Professionally qualified accountant (e.g. ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent).

Security Clearance:

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Standard (BPSS) / 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 - 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 shopping savings portal.
• Payment of Professional Fees.
• Reservists in the armed forces receive 10‑days special paid leave.
• Holiday Trading 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.

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.