Financial Reporting Manager in Plymouth

Location: UK, Fully Remote + Occasional Travel to Devonport, Plymouth

Role Type: Full Time / Fixed Term Contract

Shape The Future of Financial Excellence in a Business That Helps Protect What Matters Most. 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 Reporting Manager. This is a fantastic opportunity to join our Financial Business Services team on a 12-month fixed-term contract, supporting a business that delivers critical capability across defence, aerospace and engineering.

The role:

• As a Financial Reporting Manager, you'll be joining a high-performing team at the heart of Babcock's finance function.
• Working closely with senior stakeholders, you'll lead financial reporting, governance and control activities while helping shape the future of finance services across the business.
• This is an exciting opportunity for a technically strong finance professional who enjoys driving continuous improvement, leading teams, and making a tangible impact.
• You'll gain exposure to complex financial reporting environments, influence business-wide decision-making, and contribute to the success of programmes that support national security and critical infrastructure.

Day-to-day you’ll be responsible for:

• Leading and developing a motivated finance team, setting objectives and supporting professional growth.
• Managing the transition of finance activities into the team as the function continues to evolve.
• Driving the standardisation and improvement of finance policies, processes and controls across the business.
• Ensuring compliance with accounting standards, Group accounting policies and financial governance requirements.
• Preparing and overseeing statutory accounts, compliance reporting and corporate tax deliverables for Land & Aviation entities.

This role is full time, 37 hours per week, Monday to Friday, on a 12-month fixed term contract and is fully remote. Travel to Devonport, Plymouth will be required on a quarterly basis for team meetings.

Essential experience:

• Demonstrable experience leading, developing and managing teams within a finance function.
• Strong audit background with extensive statutory accounts preparation experience.
• Experience reviewing, improving and streamlining finance processes and controls.
• Advanced technical accounting expertise with the ability to communicate complex concepts to non-finance stakeholders.
• Experience using finance systems such as SAP, Navision, IFS or similar, alongside strong Microsoft Office skills.

Qualifications:

• Qualified Accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent).
• Experience operating within a large, complex organisation.
• Knowledge of IFRS and broader financial reporting frameworks.

Security Clearance:

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Standard (BPSS) and Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role.

What we offer:

• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance.
• Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+.
• 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 UK Babcock 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 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.