Babcock International Group
Senior Financial Accountant
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Senior Financial Accountant
Senior Financial Accountant
Location: Portsmouth, London or Bristol (role is mostly remote)
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
About the Role
Drive financial excellence in a global engineering organisation.
At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Senior Financial Accountant at any of our main UK locations, near Bristol, London or Portsmouth.
Responsibilities
As a Senior Financial Accountant, you’ll play a pivotal role in delivering accurate, high-quality financial reporting and strengthening financial controls across a complex, global organisation. Working within our Central Accounting Team, you’ll take ownership of:
- Fixed asset and lease accounting, supporting business-critical investment decisions
- Compliance and consistency across the Group
- Exposure across the business, collaborating with stakeholders at all levels
Your typical tasks include:
- Managing fixed asset and lease accounting in line with IFRS 16 standards
- Preparing and reviewing balance sheet reconciliations and financial reports
- Supporting month-end and year-end close activities across multiple entities
- Collaborating with finance teams, auditors, and business stakeholders to ensure accuracy and compliance
- Driving improvements and standardisation across accounting processes and controls
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This role offers full-time hours (37.5 hours per week) with hybrid working arrangements, including days onsite and remote work from home.
Requirements
Essential Experience
Your profile should include:
- Strong experience in IFRS 16 within a complex organisation
- Managing balance sheets, reconciliations and financial reporting activities
- Experience working across multi-entity or international environments
- Proficiency in using advanced Excel and finance systems such as SAP, Navision, or IFS
- An audit mindset or previous audit experience (advantageous)
Qualifications
- A qualified accountant (such as ACA, ACCA or equivalent)
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role.
Additional Information: May affect role qualifications foreign birth, nationality, current/former citizenship, or held residency. Details are available in the provided link.
Benefits
- Generous holiday allowance
- Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
- Access to:
- A Digital GP
- Annual health check
- Nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
- Employee share scheme
- Employee shopping savings portal
- Payment of Professional Fees
- Reserves in armed forces receive 10-days paid leave (special)
- ‘Holiday Trading’ benefit—purchase or sell additional leave
- ‘Be Kind Day’—paid leave for volunteering (1 day annually)
- Flexible working opportunities
- Dynamic workplace
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About Babcock
We’re a global FTSE 100 organisation with over 26,000 employees dedicated to driving meaningful impact. Our work supports national security and public infrastructure spanning design to final decommissioning.
Join us as part of a legacy-driven organisation focused on lifetime engineering—meaningful careers that balance work and life.
Closing Date: 08/07/2026
Disability Confident
Babcock is a role committed to building an inclusive culture. If you have a disability or require reasonable adjustments, email careers@babcockinternational.com with the subject header: ‘Reasonable Adjustments Requirement’. We actively engage about flexible working—please do ask about it during the interview.
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