Assistant Accountant

weServed; Plymouth; Hybrid; GBP 28,000 - 35,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous holiday allowance

Pension scheme with life assurance

Digital GP and health checks

Employee shopping portal

Professional fees paid

Special paid leave for Reservists

Job summary

Babcock is hiring an Assistant Accountant at the Devonport Royal Dockyard site in Plymouth. This full-time role supports financial control, reporting and business performance, collaborating with Finance Managers and Engineering teams to ensure accurate information and timely decision-making.

Responsibilities include budgeting, forecasting, month-end reporting, labour cost management, invoicing, and stakeholder engagement. AAT or ACCA/CIMA study is required, with SC clearance essential.

Qualifications

• Experience in financial reporting, budgeting and forecasting.
• Experience analysing financial and operational data to inform decisions.
• Proven ability to produce management information and dashboards in Excel.

Responsibilities

• Prepare monthly financial reports, journals and balance sheet reconciliations.
• Monitor labour, headcount and contractor costs for workforce planning.
• Manage invoicing and intercompany recharge activities; respond to stakeholder queries.
• Produce dashboards and management information for senior leaders.
• Support budgeting, forecasting and continuous improvement across reporting processes.

Skills

Financial reporting

Budgeting

Stakeholder management

Month-end

Detail-oriented

Education

AAT qualified

ACCA/CIMA study

Tools

Excel

Job description

Job Title: Assistant Accountant

Location: Plymouth, Devon

Compensation: £28,000 - £35,000 Depending on Experience + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF76433

At Babcock we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as an Assistant Accountant at our Devonport Royal Dockyard site.

The role

As an Assistant Accountant, you’ll play a key role in supporting financial control, operational reporting and business performance across the Engineering function. Working closely with Finance Managers, Project Managers and Engineering teams, you’ll help ensure financial information is accurate, timely and meaningful, contributing directly to workforce planning, cost management and strategic decision-making.

Day-to-day, you’ll have an excellent opportunity for someone looking to develop their accounting career within a large, complex and highly respected organisation. You’ll gain exposure to budgeting, forecasting, month-end reporting, labour cost management, invoicing and business analysis, while building relationships with a wide range of stakeholders across the business.

• Preparing monthly financial reports, journals and balance sheet reconciliations to support accurate financial control.
• Monitoring labour, headcount and contractor costs, providing analysis and insight to support workforce planning.
• Managing invoicing and intercompany recharge activities while resolving stakeholder queries efficiently.
• Producing dashboards, management information and performance reports for senior leaders.
• Supporting budgeting, forecasting and continuous improvement activities across financial reporting processes.

This role is full time, 35 hours per week and is based on site at Devonport Royal Dockyard.

Essential experience of the Assistant Accountant

• Experience supporting financial reporting activities including month-end processes, reconciliations, budgeting and forecasting.
• Experience analysing financial and operational data to identify trends and support business decision-making.
• Experience producing management information, dashboards and reports using advanced Microsoft Excel skills.
• Experience monitoring costs, resources or workforce data within a finance, project or operational environment.
• Strong stakeholder management, communication and problem-solving skills with excellent attention to detail.

Qualifications for the Assistant Accountant

• AAT qualified or actively studying towards a recognised accounting qualification such as ACCA, CIMA or equivalent.

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 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).

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 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. This Window opens February through to March annually.
• '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 29,000 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 [e-mail] 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: 20/11/2026

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