Financial Accountant – Fixed and Lease Assets
Babcock International Group
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Portsmouth • United Kingdom
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About the role
- 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
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
fixed asset accountinglease accountingdepreciationvaluationimpairmentbalance sheet reconciliationfinance process improvementmonth-end ownershipIFRS 16
Soft skills
stakeholder managementcommercial awarenessdecision-makingcontinuous improvement
Certifications
ACAACCACIMAStandard (BPSS) security clearanceSecurity Check (SC) security clearance