Job Title: Reporting Accountant
Location: Portsmouth, Hampshire + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF58929
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 Reporting Accountant at our Portsmouth site.
The Role
As a Reporting Accountant, you'll have a role that's out of the ordinary. Supporting the FP&A Manager - Training with providing a reporting service to the Land Sector Training Business Unit (BU) providing accurate and timely financial data.
Day-to-day, you'll liaising with the Group, Sector and Business Facing Finance teams, working within the Land Sector FP&A Team:
- Providing a reporting service for the Business Facing finance teams within the Training BU within agreed Sector and Group deadlines.
- Deputising for the FP&A Manager when required.
- Assisting with managing the relationship with Group and BU Finance.
- Supporting identified continuous improvement projects on behalf of the BU finance and Sector FP&A teams.
- Support consolidation, review and sign-off of the Training Business Unit management accounts with the Training FD.
This role is full time, 37 hours per week and requires regular travel to Portsmouth monthly basis alongside home working arrangements.
Agile working may be available to employees in some instances, applying the principles of fairness and consistency whilst ensuring that the overriding business needs can be appropriately met. We are happy to consider flexible, blended working, including part-time, condensed hours, and job sharing. Please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.
Essential Experience of the Reporting Accountant:
- Ability to understand and manipulate data to present clear and concise financial messages for review.
- Ability to ensure deadlines and targets are achieved or surpassed.
- Ability to maintain knowledge of industry and regulatory standards in respect to Financial Reporting.
- Extensive experience in the use of Microsoft suite of applications including Excel, PowerPoint, Word, and Outlook.
- Proven track record using BPC Reporting system or a similar application.
Qualifications for the Reporting Accountant:
- You must hold a recognised professional accounting qualification (ACCA, ACA, ACMA, CIMA, ICAEW, ICAS) or equivalent / similar.
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.
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.
- Autonomy to perform the role.
- 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 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.