Finance Business Partner

Job Title:                     Finance Business Partner

Location:                     Rosyth, Fife

Compensation:           Competitive + Benefits

Role Type:                   Full time / Permanent

Role ID:                        SF72744

Create impact that lasts

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 at Rosyth, near Dunfermline, Fife.

The role

As a Finance Business Partner, you’ll play a pivotal role in supporting some of the UK’s most complex and meaningful engineering and defence programmes. You’ll be part of the Arrowhead Finance Team, supporting over £1bn of engineering contracts and working closely with operational and project teams to influence decision‑making through high‑quality financial insight.

This is an opportunity to join a team where your expertise will shape processes, strengthen governance, and directly contribute to programmes that protect national security and critical infrastructure. It’s a highly visible role, offering exceptional career development, senior stakeholder exposure, and the chance to build your technical and business‑partnering capability in a dynamic environment.

Day-to-day, you’ll have the following responsibilities:

• Partner with key stakeholders, monitoring and challenging performance to influence project execution.
• Develop and maintain detailed financial models, ensuring robust financial controls are in place.
• Deliver month‑end, budget, and forecasting requirements to high standards.
• Support internal and external audits, maintaining financial compliance at all times.
• Drive continuous improvement, enhancing processes, controls, automation, and reporting capability.

This position is 37 hours per week, based at Rosyth. Hybrid working patterns are available, with approximately three days a week on site.

Essential experience of the Finance Business Partner:

• Proven experience in financial planning, reporting, performance management, or financial modelling.
• Experience supporting process improvement and strengthening financial controls.
• Strong stakeholder‑management skills, with the ability to influence at multiple levels.
• Experience working with large data sets and advanced Excel functionality.
• Background in infrastructure, engineering, defence, or complex project environments (beneficial).

Qualifications for Finance Business Partner:

• Qualified Accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent), ideally with post‑qualification experience.

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be a sole UK National who is able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) 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

• 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 View email address on jobs.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: 05/06/2026

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