Financial Accountant

Job Title: Financial Accountant
Location: Portsmouth, Hampshire + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: Up to £50,000 (Dependent on Experience) + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF54905

At Babcock we're working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as a Financial Accountant at our Portsmouth site.

The Role
As a Financial Accountant, you'll have a role that's out of the ordinary. This exciting opportunity will allow the successful individual to generate significant value by collaborating with the wider Babcock Finance team to support the standardisation of central finance processes in all aspects of Fixed and Lease Assets across the UK business.

Day-to-day, you'll be reporting to the Finance Manager (Fixed and Lease Assets) supporting the Land and Corporate business sectors, the Financial Accountant role will focus on Fixed and Lease assets including the Aviation fleet, ensuring the application of best practice, standardisation and effective controls:

• Working with Babcock sectors in Fixed and Lease Asset budgeting, forecasting and reporting to ensure compliance with company, statutory and audit requirements.
• Supporting the development of consistent policies for accounting for Fixed and Lease Assets across Babcock Group, implementing best practice and standardisation.
• Supporting the Finance Manager (Fixed and Lease Assets) in playing a coordination and support role with colleagues in France, Canada and Australia relating to aircraft assets as required.
• Working within the capital investment team in the area of capital expenditure proposals, ensuring full approval in a timely manner to enable the successful delivery of the capex portfolio.
• Business partnering with lease asset stakeholders both internally and externally regarding the management and maintenance of ongoing leases.

This role is full time, 37.5 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with 2 days in the office and 3 days working from home.

Agile working may be available to employees in some instances, applying the principles of fairness and consistency whilst ensuring that the overriding business needs can be appropriately met. We are happy to consider flexible, blended working, including part-time, condensed hours, and job sharing. Please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.

Essential Experience of the Financial Accountant:

• Demonstratable experience of working within a Finance function, ideally, in a complex international business environment.
• Experience of reviewing and improving finance processes with a fresh perspective beneficial.
• Commercial awareness with a good understanding of the business environment including customers, competitors, etc.
• Experience of Finance IT applications (e.g., SAP, NAV (Navision, IFS, etc.), BPC, TMS), as well as Microsoft Office 2010 suite of applications including Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Visio, and Outlook.
• Ideally, possess working knowledge of Fixed and Lease accounting and / or IFRS 16.

Qualifications for the Financial Accountant:

• You must hold a recognised accounting qualification (ACCA, ACA, ACMA, CIMA, ICAEW, ICAS) or equivalent / similar.

Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain 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.

What we offer:

• Generous holiday allowance
• Matched contribution pension scheme up to 8% of salary, with life assurance
• 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.
• Autonomy to perform the role.
• Opportunities to develop your career.

Babcock International
For over a century Babcock has helped to defend nations, protect communities and build a better world. To continue, we must adapt, advance and be a sustainable business with a shared goal.

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 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.

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