

Job Title: Head of Commercial Finance Joint Ventures and Onshore
Location: Cheltenham, Gloucestershire + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF73692
Lead commercial finance across complex aviation joint ventures and onshore operations
At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. We’re now looking for a Head of Commercial Finance – Joint Ventures and Onshore to play a critical leadership role within our Aviation business.
This is a senior finance leadership role with accountability for financial performance, governance, and reporting across major aviation joint ventures and the onshore aviation portfolio. You’ll operate as a trusted partner to senior leaders, providing insight, challenge, and decision support to shape both strategic and operational outcomes.
Reporting to the Aviation Finance Director, you’ll lead the Joint Ventures and Onshore finance team and act as a key member of the Aviation Senior Leadership Team. You’ll ensure strong financial control, robust governance, and high‑quality financial insight to support effective decision‑making and risk management across a complex portfolio.
Day-to-day, you will:
This is a full‑time, permanent role with hybrid working. The role is ideally based near Staverton, but we will consider UK wide candidates.
Essential experience of the Head of Commercial Finance Joint Ventures and Onshore:
Qualifications for the Head of Commercial Finance Joint Ventures and Onshore:
Professionally qualified accountant (e.g. ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent)
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Standard (BPSS) / 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
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.
Closing date: 26/05/2026
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