Senior Accountant

Babcock International Group; Portsmouth; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Senior Accountant to join their dynamic Finance Business Services team in Portsmouth. This role offers a unique opportunity to enhance your accounting skills while working on critical finance processes within a supportive environment. With flexible hybrid working arrangements, you will engage in essential activities such as journal preparation, balance sheet reconciliations, and indirect tax support. The company values diversity and promotes a culture of inclusivity, offering generous benefits and development opportunities. If you're ready to make a significant impact in a meaningful role, this could be the perfect fit for you.

Benefits

Generous holiday allowance

Matched contribution pension scheme

Access to a Digital GP

Employee share scheme

Payment of Professional Fees

Volunteering leave

Development opportunities

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience in a Finance function, ideally in a complex international business.
• Strong knowledge of general ledger accounting and balance sheet reconciliations.

Responsibilities

• Support the standardisation and optimisation of finance processes.
• Preparation and review of balance sheet reconciliations.

Skills

General Ledger Accounting

Balance Sheet Reconciliations

Microsoft Excel

SAP

Commercial Awareness

Tools

Microsoft Office 2010

SAP

Job description

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Job Title: Senior Accountant

Location: Lakeside, Portsmouth + Hybrid Working Arrangements

Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits

Role Type: Fixed Term Contract For 52 Weeks

Role ID: SF64170

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

Job Title: Senior Accountant

Location: Lakeside, Portsmouth + Hybrid Working Arrangements

Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits

Role Type: Fixed Term Contract For 52 Weeks

Role ID: SF64170

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

The role

As a Senior Accountant, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. This role sits within the Babcock Central Accounting team in the Finance Business Services department, working with the corporate entities. This exciting opportunity will allow the successful individual to develop their accounting skills in a range of activities for the cover of maternity leave.

Day-to-day, you’ll support the standardisation and optimisation of finance processes and controls across Babcock Finance, with a particular focus on journal and Balance Sheet processes.

• Preparation and approval of non-contract specific repeatable journals for UK entities, including supporting documentation, maintaining a strong control focus.
• Review, ageing and reconciliation of GRNI, including engagement with receiptors, write backs and working with the Sectors to request closure of purchase orders.
• Preparation and review of other Balance Sheet reconciliations, including value add analytical review, completeness, aging, sample testing and timely clearance of balances.
• Supporting the Indirect Tax team with the preparation of VAT returns and balance sheet reconciliations.
• Supporting the Indirect Tax team with the analysis of PSA data including secondee expenses.
  
  
  

This role is full time, 37 hours per week and is based at Portsmouth. We are flexible with the amount of days spent onsite.

Essential Experience Of The Senior Accountant

• Hands-on experience of working within a Finance function, ideally in a complex international business environment.
• Strong working knowledge of general ledger accounting and balance sheet reconciliations, with the insight to challenge and review balance sheet recoverability.
• Demonstrates commercial awareness with a good understanding of the business environment including customers, competitors, etc.
• Extensive experience in the use of Microsoft Office 2010 suite of applications including Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Visio, and Outlook.
• Experience of Finance IT applications (e.g., SAP).
  
  
  

Qualifications For The Senior Accountant

We value difference and don’t have a fixed idea when it comes to background or education, provided you can show the required level of experience and/or willingness to learn then we would like to hear from you.

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintainSecurity 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 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
• Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.
  
  
  

Babcock International

For over a century Babcock has helped to defend nations, protect communities and build a better world. To continue, we must adapt, advance and be a sustainable business with a shared goal.

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: 19/06/2025

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Accounting/Auditing and Finance

• Industries

  Defense and Space Manufacturing

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