Job Title: Technical Accounting and Governance Manager
Location: Rosyth, Fife + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: Competitive + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / 12-Month Fixed Term Contract
Role ID: SF73444
Shape the standards that protect projects, people and the future
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 Technical Accounting and Governance Manager at our Rosyth site.
The role
As a Technical Accounting and Governance Manager, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You’ll sit at the centre of financial reporting and control within our Marine sector. This is a high‑impact role where your expertise will shape technical accounting decisions across a complex long‑term contracting environment, strengthen governance frameworks and influence senior stakeholders.
Day-to-day you’ll be required to:
- Leading on technical accounting positions, including long‑term commercial contracts, and preparing high‑quality accounting papers
- Driving the sector financial controls framework, embedding best practice across a large and complex business
- Managing internal and external audits, acting as a key liaison point and ensuring timely, robust outcomes
- Influencing senior finance and operational stakeholders, providing clear guidance and constructive challenge
- Ensuring reporting deadlines and governance requirements are consistently achieved or exceeded
This role is full time, 35 hours per week and is based on site at Rosyth with hybrid working arrangements.
Essential experience of the Technical Accounting and Governance Manager
- Proven background in practice, such as audit or an equivalent technical accounting environment
- Strong technical accounting expertise, including experience with long‑term commercial contracts
- Demonstrated ability to influence senior stakeholders and drive change
- Track record of designing or implementing effective financial controls in complex organisations
- Experience working to demanding deadlines within a regulated or governed environment
Qualifications for the Technical Accounting and Governance Manager
- ACA or ACCA qualification (or equivalent)
- Experience within large, complex or regulated organisations is advantageous
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. 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 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. This Window opens February through to March annually.
- ‘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
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: 19/05/2026
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