Management Accountant

Accounting
Fife
September 6, 2024
Temporary
Urgent

Job Description

Job Title: Management Accountant
Location: Rosyth, Fife + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / 60 Weeks Fixed Term Contract
Role ID: SF59045

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 Management Accountant, at our Rosyth site.

The Role
As a Management Accountant, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. Joining the Marine & Engineering Systems FP&A team at Babcock, covering a maternity leave. As a member of the FP&A team, the successful applicant will join a high-performing finance group which operates in a fast-paced environment, at a crucial and exciting time in the finance function’s transformation journey.

Day-to-day, you’ll be supporting all month-end, budget and forecast reporting processes for the business unit, ensuring all Group and local requirements are met and delivered on schedule. In addition, the successful applicant will play a significant role in the current finance transformation project and in providing good quality and accurate ad hoc analytical support to the finance leadership team:

  • Assist with month-end reporting processes including the preparation of journals, adhering to Group and Sector standards and timescales.
  • Finance business partner with project and functional teams to control costs and understand movements and variances from budget.
  • Support with the production of the annual budget and reforecasting processes.
  • Play an active role in supporting the finance transformation agenda.
  • Contribution to finance and site-wide continuous improvement projects.

This role is full time, 36 hours per week and requires regular travel to Rosyth on a weekly 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 Management Accountant:

  • Demonstratable experience in a similar role.
  • Proven of using an ERP system (IFS / SAP would be desirable).
  • Good interpersonal skills with ability to communicate at all levels.
  • High standards and attention to detail.
  • Good organisational skills.

Qualifications for the Management Accountant:

  • Recently or part qualified accountant (ACCA, ACA, ACMA, CIMA, ICAEW, ICAS) but consideration will also be given to candidates qualified by experience.

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.

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.

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