Senior Financial Accountant in Portsmouth

Location: Portsmouth, Lakeside + Hybrid Working Arrangements

Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Drive financial excellence in a global engineering organisation. At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Senior Financial Accountant at any of our main UK locations, near Bristol, London or Portsmouth.

The role:

• As a Senior Financial Accountant, you’ll play a pivotal role in delivering accurate, high-quality financial reporting and strengthening financial controls across a complex, global organisation.
• Working within our Central Accounting Team, you’ll take ownership of fixed asset and lease accounting, helping to support business-critical investment decisions while ensuring compliance and consistency across the Group.
• This is an opportunity to be part of a transforming finance function where your expertise will directly influence how we manage high-value assets, from aircraft fleets to major infrastructure investments.

Day-to-day, you’ll gain exposure across the business, working with stakeholders at all levels while developing your career in a purpose-driven organisation at the heart of defence, aerospace and engineering.

Key responsibilities:

• Managing fixed asset and lease accounting in line with regulatory standards including IFRS 16
• Preparing and reviewing balance sheet reconciliations and financial reports
• Supporting month-end and year-end close activities across multiple entities
• Collaborating with finance teams, auditors, and business stakeholders to ensure accuracy and compliance
• Driving improvements and standardisation across accounting processes and controls

This role is full time, 37.5 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with days onsite and days working from home.

Essential experience:

• Demonstrating strong experience in fixed asset and lease accounting within a complex organisation
• Managing balance sheets, reconciliations and financial reporting activities
• Working across multi-entity or international environments
• Using advanced Excel and finance systems such as SAP, Navision or IFS
• Applying an audit mindset or having previous audit experience (advantageous)

Qualifications:

• Qualified Accountant (such as ACA, ACCA, or equivalent)

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.

What we offer:

• Generous holiday allowance
• 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 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
• A dynamic working environment

Babcock is 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 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.

Closing date: 18/06/2026