Assistant Accountant

Babcock International; Plymouth; Hybrid; GBP 28,000 - 35,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension and life assurance

Digital GP & DigiCare+

Employee shopping portal

Payment of professional fees

Reservists paid leave (10 days)

Holiday trading

Be Kind Day

Job summary

Babcock is seeking an Assistant Accountant at our Devonport Royal Dockyard site in Plymouth. This full-time role supports financial control, reporting and business performance across the Engineering function, with exposure to budgeting, forecasting, month-end, invoicing and cost management.

You will work with Finance Managers and project teams to deliver accurate financial information and actionable insights.

Qualifications

• Experience supporting financial reporting including month-end, 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 Excel.
• 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.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

Excel skills

Stakeholder management

Analytical skills

Attention to detail

Communication

Problem solving

Education

AAT qualification or ACCA/CIMA in progress

Tools

Microsoft Excel

Job description

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Location: Devonport, Plymouth, GB, PL1 4SG

Onsite or Hybrid: OnSite

Job Title: Assistant Accountant

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

• 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-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.

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