Job Title: Group Reporting and Control Accountant
Location: Wigmore Street, London + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF68075
Shape the Future of Financial Excellence
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 Group Reporting and Control Accountant at our Wigmore Street site.
The role
As a Group Reporting and Control Accountant, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You’ll be at the heart of our Group FP&A and Reporting team, driving the accuracy and integrity of our financial reporting. This is a high-impact role where your insights will help shape strategic decisions across the business. You’ll be working in a dynamic environment that values precision, collaboration and continuous improvement, making a real difference to our corporate performance and your professional growth.
Day-to-day, you’ll be:
- Preparing monthly Group Management Accounts by consolidating unit data in SAP BPC and updating adjustment journals
- Collating and challenging variance analysis from sector teams and submitting financial reporting packs
- Consolidating budget and forecast returns and processing adjustment journals
- Supporting the creation of workbooks for budget and forecast collation and year-end reporting
- Assisting in drafting Group Consolidated Financial Statements and supporting external audits
This role is full time, 37.5 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with two to three days in the office/onsite.
Essential experience of the Group Reporting and Control Accountant:
- Qualified accountant with post-qualification experience
- Can engage with senior leadership and FP&A teams to communicate financial results
- Solid understanding of accounting principles and practices, including GAAP and IFRS
- Proficient in building and interpreting financial models to project company performance
- Advanced Excel skills and experience of Finance IT applications (e.g. SAP BPC, Navision, IFS etc.)
Qualifications for the Group Reporting and Control Accountant:
- Recognised professional accounting qualification (ACCA, ACA, CIMA)
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
- 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 UK Babcock employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement. There is an annual Window to request this benefit.
- ‘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
- 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 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: 15/10/2025
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