Project Accountant

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A Finance Business Partner is a senior-level professional role in the Financial Business Partnering discipline of the Finance role family. This role requires in-depth knowledge, expertise and multiple years experience of professional practice within this discipline. This role undertakes complex and non-routine professional assignments with minimal supervision and may provide leadership to more junior roles

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Job Title: Project Accountant

Location: Plymouth, Devon + Hybrid Working Arrangements

Compensation: £47,500 + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF74348

Help shape financial performance across critical defence programmes

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 Project Accountant at our Devonport Royal Dockyard site.

The role

As a Project Accountant, you’ll provide accurate, timely financial insight and control across key programmes, helping to maximise value, performance and profitability. Working closely with project and business leaders, you will ensure strong financial governance, support decision-making and contribute to the successful delivery of complex defence infrastructure.

Day-to-day, you’ll have the opportunity to develop your career in project finance within a highly regulated and purpose-driven environment, where your expertise will directly support programmes that are essential to national security.

• Producing monthly and quarterly project financial reports and status packs for management and senior leadership
• Analysing project performance, supporting budgeting, forecasting and financial control activities
• Maintaining accurate financial records, ensuring robust audit trails and compliance with internal and external requirements
• Raising customer invoices and managing financial documentation in line with contract terms
• Supporting project teams with financial insight to enable effective decision-making and delivery

This role is full time, 35 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with a minimum of 3 days in the office/onsite.

Essential experience of the Project Accountant

• Strong working knowledge of financial systems and advanced Excel skills
• Experience in financial reporting, analysis and project or management accounting
• High attention to detail and ability to work to high quality standards
• Strong communication skills with the ability to engage stakeholders at all levels
• Experience working within a structured, regulated or project-based environment

Qualifications for the Project Accountant

• Recognised accounting qualification such as Association of Chartered Certified Accountants, Chartered Institute of Management Accountants, Association of Chartered Accountants or equivalent
• Experience with financial systems such as Integrated Financial Systems or business analytics tools - Desirable

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.

Babcock

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: 30/06/2026

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