Financial Accountant

Portsmouth - UK

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: Yesterday

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Job Title: Financial Accountant - Fixed and Lease Assets

Location: Portsmouth Hampshire Hybrid Working Arrangment

Compensation: Competitive Salary Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF70816

Own the assets engine that powers national security.

At Babcock were working to create a safe and secure world together. If you join us you can play your part as a Financial Accountant Fixed and Lease Assets at Lakeside near Portsmouth Hampshire. Our work underpins defence aerospace and engineering programmes across the UK and internationally meaning what you do here genuinely matters.

The role

As a Financial Accountant youll be central to the integrity of Babcocks balance sheet owning fixed and lease asset accounting that helps keep vital defence and critical national infrastructure programmes moving. Its a role with tangible impact on national security and an outstanding platform for your professional growth

Day-to-day youll be standardising processes strengthening controls and unlocking insights that support decisionmaking across complex longterm engineering programmes.

Lead fixed and lease asset accounting for an assigned sector ensuring compliance with company statutory and audit requirements.
Own the fixed and lease asset registers covering additions disposals depreciation valuation and impairment.
Prepare robust balance sheet reconciliations and deliver clear insightful reporting.
Develop and embed bestpractice standardised policies and controls across fixed and lease asset processes.
Partner with internal and external stakeholders on lease management data quality and continuous improvement.

This role is full time 37.5 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with a mixture ofdays working from our Lakeside offices and the remaining days working from home.

Essential experience of the Financial Accountant

Handson experience within a finance function ideally in a complex international environment.
Demonstrated ability to review improve and standardise finance processes and controls.
Strong working knowledge of fixed asset and lease accounting (e.g. IFRS 16) with practical monthend ownership.
Commercial awareness with an understanding of business drivers and stakeholder needs.
Proficiency with finance systems and tools (e.g. SAP IFS NAV BPC or similar).

Qualifications for the Financial Accountant

Qualified accountant (ACA ACCA CIMA) or qualified by experience.

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 United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - ().

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 10days 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 days 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 International

Were Babcock a global FTSE 100 organisation with over 26000 people working together to make a difference.
Here youll 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 were 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 with the subject header Reasonable adjustments requirement. Were committed to building an inclusive culture where everyones free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.

Closing date: 28/01/2026

Job Title: Financial Accountant - Fixed and Lease AssetsLocation: Portsmouth Hampshire Hybrid Working ArrangmentCompensation: Competitive Salary BenefitsRole Type: Full time / Permanent Role ID: SF70816Own the assets engine that powers national security.At Babcock were working to crea...