Finance Business Partner

We Served; Helensburgh; Hybrid; GBP 46,000 - GBP 52,000; Full time

Job summary

A global engineering organization based in Helensburgh is looking for a Finance Business Partner to support and analyze key financial contracts. This full-time role involves working closely with senior leaders to enhance financial processes and deliver insightful financial information. Ideal candidates will be newly qualified or part qualified in finance, with strong process improvement experience and excellent Excel skills. The position offers a hybrid working model with competitive compensation, including bonuses and healthcare benefits.

Benefits

Generous holiday allowance

Matched contribution pension scheme

Access to a Digital GP

Employee shopping savings portal

Payment of Professional Fees

Be Kind Day for volunteering activities

Qualifications

• Newly Qualified, Part Qualified, or actively working towards qualification.
• Experience in project accounting with a strong finance background.

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.

Skills

Strong background in finance procedures and the end-to-end finance process

Excellent Excel skills

Have introduced process improvements

Stakeholder engagement

Project accounting experience

Education

Professional finance qualification (or working towards one)

Additional qualifications in project accounting or related fields

Job description

Overview

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

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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

• 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

• 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 United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).

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 [e-mail] 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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