Financial Reporting Accountant - FTC

Job Title:                     Financial Reporting Accountant

Location:                     UK, Hybrid

Compensation:            Competitive Salary + Benefits

Role Type:                   Full time / Fixed Term Contract

Role ID:                       SF72381

Make your mark in a role that keeps the UK safe and secure

At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Financial Reporting Accountant at your nearest Babcock Hub, near your nearest commutable town, county.

The role

As a Financial Reporting Accountant, you’ll play a vital role in supporting our Marine, Mission Systems and Nuclear teams within our Finance Business Services (FBS) function. This is a fantastic opportunity to apply your technical expertise in a fast-moving environment where your insights help shape our reporting, strengthen financial controls, and contribute to the wider success of Babcock’s operations across defence, aerospace and engineering.

This six-month fixed-term contract provides exposure to a highly skilled finance team and diverse stakeholders across the business giving you the opportunity to grow, develop and make a meaningful impact from day one.

Day-to-day, you’ll:

• Deliver statutory accounts and oversee compliance reporting.
• Prepare and support information required for corporation tax returns.
• Support the implementation of statutory accounts software.
• Ensure timely responses to Internal and External Audit requests.
• Strengthen finance processes, policies and controls across the FBS team.

This role is full time, 37.5 hours per week and days in the office days working from home.

Essential experience of the Financial Reporting Accountant

• Qualified Accountant or QBE/AAT with relevant experience, or audit experience in Practice seeking an industry move (Part Qual considered).
• Strong technical finance skills, able to interpret accounting principles and prepare statutory accounts.
• Experience reviewing and improving finance processes.
• Confident user of Microsoft Office applications including Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Visio and Outlook.

Qualifications for the Financial Reporting 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 maintain Standard (BPSS) / 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 

You’ll receive a wide range of benefits designed to support your wellbeing, work–life balance and professional development, including:

• 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 option – buy or sell up to one working week
• ‘Be Kind Day’ – one paid volunteering day each year
• Flexible working options
• A dynamic 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: 17/03/2026