Babcock
Senior Financial Accountant
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Senior Financial Accountant
Senior Financial Accountant
Location: Portsmouth, London, or Bristol (role is mostly remote) Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits Role Type: Full time / Permanent Role ID: SF74017
About the Role
At Babcock, we’re committed to creating a safe and secure world. As a Senior Financial Accountant, you will play a pivotal role in delivering accurate financial reporting, strengthening financial controls, and supporting critical investment decisions at our global engineering organisation.
This senior position within our Central Accounting Team involves driving financial excellence across aviation, defence, and major infrastructure projects. You’ll take ownership of fixed asset and lease accounting, ensuring compliance with regulatory standards—including IFRS 16—while influencing how we manage high-value assets.
You’ll collaborate with teams, auditors, and stakeholders to sustain our reputation for reliability and precision. If you thrive in a purpose-driven environment at the intersection of business operations and strategic finance, this opportunity could be the next step in your career.
Key Responsibilities
- Managing fixed asset and lease accounting in alignment with regulatory standards (IFRS 16)
- Preparing and reviewing balance sheet reconciliations and financial reports
- Supporting month-end and year-end close activities across multiple entities
- Collaborating with finance teams, external auditors, and business leadership
- Driving process improvements and standardisation to enhance control frameworks
Your day-to-day work will expose you to diverse facets of accounting while enabling you to develop in a dynamic global organisation at the forefront of defence, aerospace, and engineering.
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Responsibilities Summary
- Financial Reporting: Ensure accuracy of monthly and annual financial reporting
- Asset Accounting: Oversee fixed assets and lease modelling
- Process Efficiency: Implement controls that enhance compliance and consistency
- **Team Collaboration:**Integrate with internal and external teams to deliver high-quality data
- Regulatory Adherence: Support audit and regulatory requirements, including IFRS compliance
An exact mix of office days and flexibility built in to support today’s working environments. This is supported in hybrid roles comprising both on-site and remote working.
Essential Experience & Qualifications
Experience Requirements
- Proven experience with IFRS 16 in a complex, multi-entity organisation
- Strong background in managing balance sheets, reconciliations, and financial reporting
- Experience in multi-entity or international accountancy environments
- Expertise in advanced Excel and ERP systems such as SAP, Navision, or IFS
- The ability to approach challenges with an audit mindset or equivalent audit experience is advantageous.
Qualifications
- A qualified accountancy certification (e.g., ACA, ACCA), or equivalent qualification
Security Clearance Requirement
This role requires candidates to attain and maintain a Security Check (SC) clearance. Eligibility may be influenced by place of birth, nationality, residency, or citizenship history. Further details are available on the UK Government’s Security Vetting page (Consult organisation’s guidelines on trades and origin).
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What We Offer
You’ll receive competitive package benefits:
- Generous holiday allowance
- Pension scheme with life assurance and matched contributions
- Digital health solution via Aviva (GP access, annual check-ups, nutrition support)
- Employee Stock Scheme and Professional Fee Reimbursement
- confidential CAREERS ORG info
- Reservist entitlement: 10-days of special leave for armed forces reservists
- Holiday Trading: Purchase additional leave or convert up to one week of annual leave
- ‘Be Kind Day’: One paid day annually to volunteer with a registered charity
- Flexible Working: A balance that supports you both personally and professionally
- Opportunities in lifetime careers and collaborative, dynamic environments
Why Babcock?
Explore lifetime engineering—where your career makes a measurable difference in national security, defence, and strategic infrastructure. Join a global FTSE 100 organisation with 26,000 colleagues. Your work, your innovation, your impact.
We’re committed to inclusion as a Disability Confident employer. If you need reasonable adjustments during recruitment or have any questions about alternative working arrangements, please contact us directly via email at careers@babcockinternational.com.
Commitment to Inclusion: Babcock ensures a workplace inclusive for all. Are there flexibility requests or accommodations regarding your application? Contact careers@babcockinternational.com with the subject line ‘Reasonable adjustments requirement’.
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