Job Title: Senior Financial Accountant
Location: Portsmouth, Lakeside + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF
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.
1. Managing fixed asset and lease accounting in line with regulatory standards including IFRS 16
2. Preparing and reviewing balance sheet reconciliations and financial reports
3. Supporting month-end and year-end close activities across multiple entities
4. Collaborating with finance teams, auditors, and business stakeholders to ensure accuracy and compliance
5. 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 of the Senior Financial Accountant
6. Demonstrating strong experience in fixed asset and lease accounting within a complex organisation
7. Managing balance sheets, reconciliations and financial reporting activities
8. Working across multi-entity or international environments
9. Using advanced Excel and finance systems such as SAP, Navision or IFS
10. Applying an audit mindset or having previous audit experience (advantageous)
Qualifications for the Senior Financial Accountant
11. 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. 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
12. Generous holiday allowance
13. Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
14. Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
15. Employee share scheme
16. Employee shopping savings portal
17. Payment of Professional Fees
18. Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
19. 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
20. ‘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
21. Flexible working – we give people more options to better integrate their work and personal life, whilst ensuring that business needs are met
22. A dynamic working environment
Babcock
We’re Babcock — a global FTSE organisation with over 26, 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.