Inter Company Accountant

weServed; Portsmouth; Hybrid; GBP 42,000 - 62,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous holiday allowance

Pension & life cover

Digital GP

Employee share scheme

Flexible working

Be Kind Day

Holiday Trading

Reservists leave

Job summary

Babcock, a global defence and engineering group, is seeking an Inter Company Accountant in Portsmouth with hybrid working. You will ensure the accuracy, integrity and control of intercompany balances across the Group, supporting governance and timely financial reporting.

Day-to-day you will rollout centralised intercompany processes, manage allocation of shared costs, review recharge requests, and handle month-end close.

Qualifications

• Strong knowledge of intercompany accounting principles, controls and processes.
• Understanding of general ledger accounting, balance sheet reconciliations and month-end accounting activities.
• Excellent attention to detail with a commitment to financial accuracy and control.
• Strong analytical, numerical and financial problem-solving skills.

Responsibilities

• Support the implementation and rollout of centralised intercompany accounting processes across the Group.
• Manage the allocation and recharge of shared corporate supplier costs across multiple Group entities.
• Review and validating intercompany recharge requests to ensure compliance with Group policies and controls.
• Prepare and processing accurate and timely intercompany transactions and recharges.
• Manage recurring intercompany accruals and supporting month-end financial reporting activities.

Skills

Intercompany accounting

GL accounting

Balance sheet reconciliations

Month-end close

Analytical skills

Education

AAT qualified or equivalent

Finance function experience

Job description

Job Title: Inter Company Accountant

Location: Cosham, Portsmouth + Hybrid Working Arrangements

Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF76342

Help Shape Financial Excellence Across a Global Defence and 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 an Inter Company Accountant at any of our main UK locations, including Portsmouth, Devonport, Bristol and Leicester.

The role

As an Inter Company Accountant,you’ll play a vital role in ensuring the accuracy, integrity and control of financial information across Babcock Group businesses. Working at the heart of our Finance function, you’ll support strong financial governance through the reconciliation, settlement and management of intercompany balances, helping to reduce risk and improve financial performance across a complex international organisation.

This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to the ongoing transformation of our Finance function while working alongside teams across the business. Your expertise will help drive standardisation, improve financial processes and support informed business decision-making. In return, you’ll gain exposure to a broad range of stakeholders, develop your technical accounting capability and build a rewarding career within a business that supports critical defence, aerospace and engineering programmes.

Day-to-day, you’ll be required to:

• Support the implementation and rollout of centralised intercompany accounting processes across the Group.
• Manage the allocation and recharge of shared corporate supplier costs across multiple Group entities.
• Review and validating intercompany recharge requests to ensure compliance with Group policies and controls.
• Prepare and processing accurate and timely intercompany transactions and recharges.
• Manage recurring intercompany accruals and supporting month-end financial reporting activities.

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 Inter Company Accountant

• Strong knowledge of intercompany accounting principles, controls and processes.
• Understanding of general ledger accounting, balance sheet reconciliations and month-end accounting activities.
• Excellent attention to detail with a commitment to financial accuracy and control.
• Strong analytical, numerical and financial problem-solving skills.

Qualifications for the Inter Company Accountant

• AAT qualified, part-qualified accountant, fully qualified accountant, or equivalent experience gained within a finance function.

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Standard (BPSS) and 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 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

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: 21/10/2026