Financial Accountant

6 months ago

Bristol, United Kingdom Babcock International Group Full time

Job Title: Financial Accountant 
Location: Portsmouth, Plymouth or Bristol + Hybrid Working Arrangements 
Compensation: Up to £45, (Dependent on Experience) + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent 
Role ID: SF

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 all Babcock business sectors, in all aspects of 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. Administration of the Group's IFRS 16 BPC tool and associated accounting and the supporting the eventual interface to ERP systems. Management of fixed and leased asset registers to ensure correct accounting treatment of additions, disposal and depreciation policy, completeness, valuation and impairment.

This role is full time, 37.5 hours per week and regular travel to Portsmouth, on a weekly basis alongside home working 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: 

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 with Finance IT applications (e.g., SAP, NAV (Navision, IFS, etc.), BPC, TMS), as well as Microsoft Office 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 or be working towards a recognised accounting qualification (ACCA, ACA, ACMA, CIMA, ICAEW, ICAS, AAT) 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. Further details are available at .

What we Offer: 

Generous holiday allowance  Matched contribution 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 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. Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.

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