Head of Commercial Finance Joint Ventures and Onshore

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

Role Summary

Lead commercial finance across complex aviation joint ventures and onshore operations. This senior finance leadership role holds accountability for financial performance, governance and reporting across major aviation joint ventures and the onshore aviation portfolio. The Head will provide insight, challenge and decision support to senior leaders to shape strategic and operational outcomes.

The role

Reporting to the Aviation Finance Director, you will lead the Joint Ventures and Onshore finance team and serve as a key member of the Aviation Senior Leadership Team. Responsibilities include ensuring strong financial control, robust governance and high quality financial insight to support effective decision making and risk management across a complex portfolio.

Key responsibilities

• Lead financial management of Aviation Joint Ventures and Onshore operations, ensuring robust control and governance.
• Provide senior finance business partnering to Heads of Contract, Programme Managers and Onshore leadership.
• Own forecasting, budgeting and month end processes, delivering accurate and insightful financial information.
• Drive financial governance, risk management and compliance in line with Group and regulatory requirements.
• Lead, develop and motivate the Joint Ventures and Onshore finance team to deliver high quality outputs.

Essential experience

• Collaborative finance leader able to influence and challenge senior non‑finance stakeholders.
• Strong commercial and financial judgement, translating complex data into clear insight.
• Sound understanding of financial governance, controls and risk management.
• Experience working in complex contractual or joint venture environments (desirable).

Qualifications

Professionally qualified accountant (e.g. ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent).

Security Clearance

Must be able to achieve and maintain Standard (BPSS) / Security Check (SC) clearance.

Benefits

• Generous holiday allowance
• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
• Access to a Digital GP, annual health check and nutrition consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
• Employee shopping savings portal
• Payment of professional fees
• Reservists receive 10‑day special paid leave
• Holiday trading – buy or sell up to one working week of annual leave annually (February–March)
• Be Kind Day – paid leave to undertake volunteering work with chosen charity.

EEO statement

Babcock is 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".

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