About the role

  • Financial Accountant managing fixed and lease assets for Babcock in the defense and engineering sector, ensuring compliance and fostering financial integrity while providing analytical insights.

Responsibilities

  • Own the fixed and lease asset registers, covering additions, disposals, depreciation, valuation and impairment.
  • Prepare robust balance sheet reconciliations and deliver clear, insightful reporting.
  • Develop and embed best‑practice, standardised policies and controls across fixed and lease asset processes.
  • Partner with internal and external stakeholders on lease management, data quality and continuous improvement.

Requirements

  • Hands‑on experience within a finance function, ideally in a complex, international environment.
  • Demonstrated ability to review, improve and standardise finance processes and controls.
  • Strong working knowledge of fixed asset and lease accounting (e.g., IFRS 16), with practical month‑end ownership.
  • Commercial awareness with an understanding of business drivers and stakeholder needs.
  • Proficiency with finance systems and tools (e.g., SAP, IFS, NAV, BPC or similar).
  • Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA) or qualified by experience.
  • The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role.

Benefits

  • 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 the majority of employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement
  • ‘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
  • Flexible working – we give people more options to better integrate their work and personal life, whilst ensuring that business needs are met
  • A dynamic working environment

Job title

Financial Accountant

Job type

Experience level

Mid levelSenior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Professional Certificate

Location requirements

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