Assistant Accountant

Job Title: Assistant Accountant
Location: Faslane OR Plymouth + Hybrid - Working from Home Options Available
Compensation: £34,160 – £38,393 + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF52565

At Babcock we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as an Assistant Accountant at either of our sites in Faslane or Plymouth.

The Role

As an Assistant Accountant, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. Become part of the financial reporting team within Finance, working collaboratively alongside the Financial Reporting Manager, playing a key role in the management of the outputs for the Finance team in HMNB Clyde.

Day to day, you’ll be ensuring compliance with all relevant accounting standards and statutory / Sector / Group reporting requirements at HMNB Clyde. Working within a small team, ensuring close liaison with all key stakeholders throughout, including other Babcock reporting teams. You will have an enthusiasm to drive and shape change, evaluating current processes and techniques, challenging the status quo, making recommendations, and implementing improvement change initiatives across the Sector.

• Month end journal preparation.
• Support to all internal and external audits.
• Support the preparation of management accounts for Group / Sector in accordance with agreed reporting timetables.
• Preparation of weekly cash flow forecasts & co-ordination of the monthly billing cycles with the customer ensuring that invoices are submitted on time and receivables are cleared in a timely manner.

Essential Experience of the Assistant Accountant:

• Demonstrable experience of working within a finance team ideally, within a financial reporting role.
• Good verbal and written communication and relationship-building skills.
• Experience of an MoD reporting environment would be advantageous but not essential.

This is a full-time position, that allows for you to work in a hybrid working structure, between working from home or either one of sites in Faslane or Plymouth.

Qualifications for the Assistant Accountant:

• AAT or part qualified accountant (ACCA, CIMA, CIPFA, ICAS).

The successful candidate must be able to achieve SC security clearance for this role.

Our Benefits

• Generous holiday allowance
• Matched contribution pension scheme up to 8% of salary, with life assurance
• 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

Babcock International

For over 130 years Babcock International have 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.

If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please let us know. 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: 16/08/2023

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