Finance Business Partner in Bristol

Location: Ashton Vale, Bristol + Hybrid Working Arrangements

Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent or Fixed Term Contract

Overview

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 across our Bristol sites.

The Role

As a Finance Business Partner, you’ll play a pivotal role in enabling smarter decisions across our Mission Systems business. This is an opportunity to be a trusted advisor on some of the UK’s most critical defence programmes, including work that contributes directly to national protection and future capability. You’ll influence performance, strengthen financial control, and support the successful delivery of high‑profile, long‑term contracts. It’s a role with real purpose, empowering your professional growth while shaping outcomes that matter.

Day‑to‑day, you’ll be required to:

• Drive financial performance for key Mission Systems contracts, ensuring accuracy, insight, and strong trading margins.
• Produce and present rolling forecasts for cost, profit, and cash flow, including consolidation at programme level.
• Lead cash management reporting and maintain robust financial models to support current and future programmes.
• Deliver governance reporting and financial packs, ensuring compliance with internal and government requirements.
• Act as a trusted advisor to programme, commercial, and leadership teams—translating complex financial data into clear, actionable insights.

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

Essential Experience

• Experience as a finance business partner, project accountant, or cost accountant within a complex environment.
• Strong analytical capability and confidence working with high volumes of data.
• Excellent Excel skills, including pivot tables and data modelling.
• Experience with long‑term contract accounting and forecasting.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with stakeholders across finance, project management, and commercial functions.

Qualifications

• Ideally you will be a qualified or part‑qualified accountant (CIMA preferred) or actively working towards qualification.
• Experience with ERP systems and IFRS15 long‑term contract accounting would be advantageous.

Security Clearance

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.

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 allows UK Babcock employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their entitlement.
• 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.

Disability Support

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 careers@babcockinternational.com 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: 27/02/2026