A Finance Business Partnering Manager is a mid-level management role in the Financial Business Partnering discipline of the Finance role family. This role manages an area of activity - at scale - within this discipline and is accountable for performance and results achieved through multiple managers, senior grade professional associates and or senior technical specialists. Holds a balanced focus on delivery against short term priorities with a medium term outlook, anticipating challenges and adapting plans and priorities accordingly
Job Title: Finance Business Partnering Manager
Location: Plymouth, Devon
Compensation: £57,300 - £71,600 Depending on Experience + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent or Fixed Term Contract
Role ID: SF74308
Shape financial performance at the heart of critical programmes
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 in supporting operational and programme teams with high-quality financial insight and control. Acting as a trusted partner to the business, you will help drive performance, support decision-making and ensure projects remain financially robust and aligned to strategic objectives.
Day-to-day, you’ll have an exciting opportunity to influence complex programmes within a defence and engineering environment, where your expertise will directly contribute to national infrastructure and security. The role offers strong development potential and exposure to senior stakeholders across the organisation.
- Providing financial insight and analysis to support business and programme decision-making
- Managing forecasting, budgeting and financial reporting activities
- Partnering with operational teams to monitor performance and identify risks and opportunities
- Supporting cost control, variance analysis and financial governance processes
- Driving continuous improvement in financial processes and reporting standards
This role is full time, 35 hours per week and is based on site at Devonport Royal Dockyard.
Essential experience of the Finance Business Partnering Manager
- Demonstrable experience in finance business partnering within a complex organisation
- Strong experience in budgeting, forecasting and financial reporting
- Ability to interpret financial data and communicate insights to non-finance stakeholders
- Proven stakeholder management and influencing skills
- Experience working in a regulated, engineering or project-based environment
Qualifications for the Finance Business Partnering Manager
- Professionally qualified accountant (e.g. ACA, ACCA, CIMA) or equivalent experience
- Degree in Finance, Accounting or a related discipline - Desirable
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. 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 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. There is an annual Window to request this benefit. ‘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 [email protected] 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: 24/06/2026
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