Job Title: Management Accountant
Location: Rosyth, Fife + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: £45,284 - £52,872
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF72019
Shape the future of marine operations through world‑class financial insight
At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Management Accountant at Rosyth, near Dunfermline, Fife.
As a Management Accountant, you’ll play a pivotal role in supporting major marine and shipbuilding operations. This is an exciting opportunity to influence decisions that directly impact national defence, engineering excellence and operational performance. Your work will strengthen financial governance, enhance cost efficiency, and help guide strategic choices across the Rosyth shipyard—one of the most advanced manufacturing and engineering environments in the UK.
Day-to-day, you’ll have the following responsibilities:
- Provide proactive financial analysis, including forecasting, budgeting and scenario modelling.
- Produce insightful management reports to support operational and strategic decision‑making.
- Partner with cost centre owners to understand financial performance, cost drivers and opportunities for improvement.
- Assist with inventory management processes, strengthening governance and controls.
- Support business cases, investment decisions and commercial models to ensure value‑for‑money and strategic alignment.
This role is full time, Monday to Friday, based at Rosyth. Hybrid working patterns are available (3 days per week onsite).
Essential experience of the Management Accountant
- Experience supporting operational, engineering or industrial environments.
- Strong analytical capability and a proactive, business‑focused mindset.
- Ability to communicate clearly and influence decision‑makers.
- Confidence to challenge constructively and provide balanced commercial insight.
- Experience collaborating with multi‑disciplinary stakeholders.
Qualifications for the Management Accountant:
Essential:
- Qualified accountant or exam‑complete finalist (ACA / ACCA / ACMA) with relevant experience.
Desirable:
- Experience within marine, manufacturing, engineering or large operational environments.
- Exposure to inventory management or project‑based finance.
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be a sole UK National who is 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 - 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.
We’re Babcock — a global FTSE 100 organisation with over 26,000 people working together to make a difference.
Here, you’ll be part of something bigger. From initial design to final decommissioning, your work will contribute to products and services that are essential to national security and public infrastructure. Together, we’re building a future that lasts — not just through the impact we make, but through meaningful careers that respect your work-life balance.
We call that lifetime engineering.
Join us and see how far we can go, together.
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: 24/03/2026