Finance Business Partnering Manager - Corporate Services in Plymouth

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 Partnering Manager at our Devonport Royal Dockyard site.

The role

As a Finance Business Partnering Manager, you’ll play a pivotal role within our Nuclear Finance Planning and Analysis team, supporting critical programmes that underpin the UK's defence infrastructure. This is an exciting opportunity to influence strategic decision-making, strengthen financial governance, and drive performance across complex, long-term programmes.

Day-to-day, you’ll work closely with senior leaders, functional cost owners, Group finance teams and business stakeholders, you'll help deliver robust financial planning, reporting and control. You'll also lead and develop a team of finance professionals, ensuring accurate financial insight supports key business decisions while contributing to the success of major Ministry of Defence contracts.

• Leading financial management, forecasting and reporting for the Naval Nuclear Corporate Services contract.
• Driving strong financial governance, compliance and control across business activities.
• Managing financial oversight of Group recharges and associated reporting processes.
• Coaching and developing a team of functional cost accountants to deliver high-quality financial support.
• Collaborating with senior stakeholders to identify opportunities for performance improvement and implement effective action plans.

This role is full time, 35 hours per week and operates on a hybrid working basis, requiring attendance at the office/on-site for a minimum of 1 to 2 days per quarter, as required. Employees are responsible for the cost of travel to and from HMNB Devonport, irrespective of where they are based.

Essential experience of the Finance Business Partnering Manager

• Extensive senior finance leadership experience across business operations, corporate finance and complex contract environments.
• Strong expertise in financial accounting, governance, statutory reporting and compliance requirements.
• Demonstrable success improving finance processes, reporting quality, financial controls and business performance.
• Experience leading and developing geographically dispersed teams through change and transformation initiatives.
• Excellent stakeholder management, communication and analytical skills, with the ability to present complex financial information clearly.

Qualifications for the Finance Business Partnering Manager

• Professionally qualified accountant such as:
• Association of Chartered Certified Accountants
• Associate Chartered Accountant
• Chartered Institute of Management Accountants
• Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales
• Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland
• Or an equivalent professional accounting qualification.

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be a sole UK National who is able to achieve and 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 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.
• ‘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 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.

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