Head of Finance

Babcock; Dunfermline, Kirkcaldy, Rosyth; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Babcock is seeking a Head of Finance to join their Rosyth site, offering a unique opportunity to impact the business positively. This full-time role involves financial partnering, governance oversight, and leading a finance team to ensure operational efficiency and cost control. Candidates should possess a recognized accounting qualification and relevant operational experience, ideally in a regulated industry.

Benefits

Generous holiday allowance

Matched contribution pension scheme

Access to a Digital GP and health consultations

Employee share scheme

Payment of Professional Fees

Holiday Trading benefit

‘Be Kind Day’ for volunteering

Excellent development opportunities

Qualifications

• Experience in an operational environment.
• Strong leadership skills and a collaborative mindset.
• High degree of commercial acumen.

Responsibilities

• Provide financial partnering to stakeholders across the Marine business.
• Oversee budgeting, reporting, and cost control.
• Deliver cost savings and ensure compliance with financial governance.

Skills

Leadership

Commercial acumen

Collaboration

Operational experience

Education

Recognised professional accounting qualification

Job description

Job Title: Head of Finance
Location: Rosyth, Fife + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF63100

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 Head of Finance at our Rosyth site.

The Role
As a Head of Finance, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. Working at the core of our exciting new operational delivery model; it is a role designed specifically to create a positive impact on our business, helping the business deliver a cost-controlled environment against a backdrop of robust financial governance.

Day-to-day, you’ll provide financial partnering at the highest level, working with varied stakeholders across the breadth of the Marine business; you’ll also, lead a team that will deliver the highest level of Finance support to our Operational leadership community:

• Work closely with the Finance Director for Marine Operations & Engineering, supporting quality delivery.
• Oversee our Indirect cost base, including budgeting, reporting, influencing and controlling.
• Deliver a high quality and robust rates process and model, including monthly reporting and performance analysis, along with a quarterly rates revision process.
• Deliver cost savings across the business, in line with (and in excess of) our commitments, ensuring we remain price competitive within the industry.
• Support the Organisation In achieving successful outcomes of our Internal and External audits.
• Responsible for governance concerning our fixed asset portfolio, our inventory controls and our extensive capital investment programme.

This role is full time, 37 hours per week and requires regular travel to Rosyth on a weekly basis alongside home working arrangements.

Essential Experience of the Head of Finance:

• Experience in an operational environment.
• A ‘can do’ attitude; driven, passionate and motivated, with a thirst for progression.
• Ideally, you will have experience in a regulated industry such as the defence sector, or similar but, this is not essential.
• Strong leadership skills and working in a collaborative environment.
• High degree of commercial acumen.

Qualifications for the Head of Finance:
You must hold a recognised professional accounting qualification (ACA, ACCA, ACMA, CIMA, FCA, FCCA, FCMA, ICAEW, ICAS, CPA) or equivalent / similar.

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 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. 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
• Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.

Babcock International
For over a century Babcock has helped to defend nations, protect communities and build a better world. To continue, we must adapt, advance and be a sustainable business with a shared goal.

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: 05/06/2025

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