Financial Accountant

Job Title: Financial Accountant
Location: Bristo, Plymouth, or Leicester + Hybrid Working
Compensation: Up to £60,000 DOE + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF55837

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 Bristol, Plymouth or Leicester site.

The Role
As a Financial Accountant, you'll have a role that's out of the ordinary. Sitting within the Babcock Central Accounting team, in the newly formed Finance Business Services department (FBS). The function includes inter company, balance sheet and fixed and lease asset accounting, journals and support to indirect taxes and will deliver common processes through process simplification, continuous improvement and the integration of systems.

Day to day, you'll be supporting the standardisation and optimisation of finance processes and controls across Babcock Finance, with particular focus on journal and Balance Sheet processes; all whilst deputising for the Finance Manager and supporting with coaching and development of other team members:

• Supporting the transition of remaining FBS activity into the team as we standardise scope across the FBS function.
• Supporting the transition of the remaining Babcock Sectors into SAP.
• Management of / compliance with detailed tasking month end timetable.
• Preparation of analysis required to support audit and statutory reporting.

This role is a full-time position that is contracted at 37.5 hours a week and can be based at either our: Bristol, Plymouth or Leicester sites with hybrid working from home arrangements.

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:

• Hands-on experience of working within a Finance function, ideally in a complex international business environment.
• Strong working knowledge of general ledger accounting and balance sheet reconciliations, with the insight to challenge and review balance sheet recoverability.
• Demonstratable commercial awareness with a good understanding of the business environment including customers, competitors, etc.
• Extensive experience in the use of Microsoft Office 2010 suite of applications including Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Visio, and Outlook.
• Experience of Finance IT applications (e.g., SAP, Navision, IFS, BPC, TMS).

Qualifications for the Financial Accountant:

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

The successful candidate must be able to achieve SC security clearance for this role.

Our Benefits

• Generous holiday allowance
• Contributory Pension scheme, 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 most 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

Babcock International
For over a century Babcock International have 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.

If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please let us know. 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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