Financial Accountant in Devon

Location: Devonport, Plymouth, GB, PL1 4SG; Portsmouth, GB, PO6 3EN; Warrington, GB, WA3 6YD; Leicester, GB, LE3 1UF; Bristol, GB, BS16 1EJ; Westminster, London, GB, W1U 1QX; Rosyth, Dunfermline, Kirkcaldy, GB, KY11 2YD

Onsite or Hybrid: Hybrid Location UK

Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / 12 Month Fixed Term Contract

About Us – Shape the Future of National Security Finance

At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Financial Accountant at any of our main UK locations, near your nearest commutable town or county.

The role:

• As a Financial Accountant, you’ll play a vital role in shaping and strengthening the financial foundations that support some of the UK’s most critical defence, engineering and infrastructure programmes.
• This is an opportunity to be part of a central accounting function that underpins national security projects work that truly matters.
• This role will elevate your financial expertise, broaden your exposure across a large, complex organisation, and accelerate your professional growth.
• Day-to-day, you’ll help standardise and optimise finance processes across Babcock’s UK operations, ensuring accuracy, compliance, and a strong control environment.
• Support the development and optimisation of finance processes and controls, with a focus on general ledger and balance sheet activities.
• Assist with the transition of Babcock business sectors into SAP systems.
• Manage tasks aligned to detailed month‑end timetables.
• Support month‑end close activities across UK entities.
• Prepare and approve routine journals with strong documentation and control focus.

This role is full time, 37.5 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with days onsite and days working from home. Will need to travel to team meetings once a month.

Essential experience of the Financial Accountant:

• Strong, hands‑on experience within a finance function, ideally within a complex and international organisation.
• Solid working knowledge of general ledger accounting and balance sheet reconciliations.
• Demonstrates commercial awareness and an understanding of the wider business environment.
• Proficient in Microsoft 365, especially Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Visio and Outlook.
• Experience using finance IT systems such as SAP, Navision, IFS, BPC or TMS.

Qualifications for the Financial Accountant:

• Qualified Accountant or qualified by experience.

Security Clearance:

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Standard (BPSS) / 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:

• You’ll benefit from a range of rewards and benefits designed to support your wellbeing, work–life balance and career growth, including:
• 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 – buy or sell up to one working week of leave
• Be Kind Day – one paid volunteering day per year
• Flexible working options
• A dynamic working environment that supports development and progression

Babcock We’re Babcock — a global FTSE 100 organisation with over 26,000 people working together to make a difference. Here, you’ll be part of something bigger. From initial design to final decommissioning, your work will contribute to products and services that are essential to national security and public infrastructure. Together, we’re building a future that lasts — not just through the impact we make, but through meaningful careers that respect your work‑life balance. We call that lifetime engineering. Join us and see how far we can go, together.

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 careers@babcockinternational.com 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.