Hybrid Financial Accountant – Fixed and Lease Assets

at Babcock International Group

• Job title: Financial Accountant – Fixed and Lease Assets
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Mid level, Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Professional Certificate
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Portsmouth, United Kingdom

About the role

• Financial Accountant managing fixed and lease assets, ensuring compliance and reporting for national security programs. Standardising processes and partnering across sectors at Babcock.

Responsibilities

• Own the fixed and lease asset registers, covering additions, disposals, depreciation, valuation and impairment.
• Prepare robust balance sheet reconciliations and deliver clear, insightful reporting.
• Develop and embed best-practice, standardised policies and controls across fixed and lease asset processes.
• Partner with internal and external stakeholders on lease management, data quality and continuous improvement.
• Standardising processes, strengthening controls and unlocking insights that support decision-making across complex, long-term engineering programmes.
• Lead fixed and lease asset accounting for an assigned sector, ensuring compliance with company, statutory and audit requirements.

Requirements

• Hands-on experience within a finance function, ideally in a complex, international environment.
• Demonstrated ability to review, improve and standardise finance processes and controls.
• Strong working knowledge of fixed asset and lease accounting (e.g., IFRS 16), with practical month-end ownership.
• Commercial awareness with an understanding of business drivers and stakeholder needs.
• Proficiency with finance systems and tools (e.g., SAP, IFS, NAV, BPC or similar).
• Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA) or qualified by experience.
• The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Standard (BPSS) and Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role.

Benefits

• 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