Senior Financial Accountant

Job Title:                     Senior Financial Accountant

Location:                     Plymouth, Devon + Hybrid Working Arrangements

Compensation:           Competitive Salary + Benefits

Role Type:                   Full time / Permanent

Role ID:                       SF73308

Shape Financial Insight That Protects What Matters Most

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 Devonport, near Plymouth, Devon.

Babcock is a trusted partner to defence, aerospace and engineering organisations worldwide. Our teams support mission‑critical systems that protect communities, strengthen national security and enable innovation across air, land and maritime environments. A career here is more than a job it’s a chance to contribute to something meaningful, while building expertise that lasts a lifetime.

The role

As a Senior Financial Accountant, you’ll sit at the heart of our Mission Systems business, supporting a significant period of transformation and growth. This is a hands‑on, influential role where your financial insight will directly support strategic decision‑making, operational performance and long‑term sustainability.

You’ll own key financial reporting entities, provide technical accounting expertise, and help shape budgets and forecasts that enable the business to deliver complex, high‑value solutions. Alongside this, you’ll develop your leadership capability by managing and supporting a team member, while broadening your exposure beyond traditional accounting into continuous improvement and stakeholder partnership.

This is a role that will strengthen your professional profile, deepen your commercial impact and accelerate your career within a global engineering organisation.

Day-to-day, you’ll be required to:

• Leading the ownership and delivery of monthly management and financial reporting for designated Mission Systems entities
• Producing and analysing overhead, payroll and headcount reports alongside cost centre managers
• Managing budgets and forecasts, translating complex data into clear financial insight
• Providing technical accounting expertise and supporting internal and external audits
• Driving continuous improvement initiatives and collaborating with Financial Business Services teams

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

• Significant experience in financial reporting and management accounting
• Experience working within an international manufacturing or engineering environment
• Strong capability using SAP or similar financial systems
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills, including data analysis and reporting
• Ability to communicate clearly, influence stakeholders and perform under month‑end pressures

Qualifications for the Senior Financial Accountant

• Fully qualified accountant (ACCA or CIMA)

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Standard (BPSS) / Security Check (SC) / security clearance for this role.  Ideally Sole UK.

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 to buy or sell annual leave
• ‘Be Kind Day’ paid volunteering leave
• Flexible working options to support work‑life balance
• A dynamic, inclusive and supportive working environment

Babcock

We’re Babcock — a global FTSE 100 organisation with over 26,000 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 careers@babcockinternational.com 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: 06/05/2026

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