Job Title: Management Accountant
Location: Rosyth, Fife + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: Competitive + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / 12-Month Fixed Term Contract
Role ID: SF73603
Shape commercial decisions at the heart of a world‑class engineering organisation
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 Management Accountant at our Rosyth site.
The role
As a Management Accountant, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You’ll play a pivotal role within our Liquid Gas Engineering business, supporting a high‑growth Marine portfolio operating in complex, project‑based environments. This is a commercially focused finance role offering real influence, autonomy and visibility with senior leaders.
Day‑to‑day you’ll be required to:
- Producing timely and accurate monthly management accounts with clear variance analysis
- Leading the month‑end close process and ensuring robust financial controls
- Partnering with operational and commercial leaders to explain financial performance
- Maintaining rolling forecasts for revenue, profit and cash flow
- Developing financial models to support planning, investment and continuous improvement
This role is full time, 37 hours per week Monday to Friday and provides hybrid working arrangements with 2 days in the office/onsite and 3 days working from home.
Essential experience of the Management Accountant
- Time‑served experience in management accounting within a project‑led or engineering environment
- Proven technical accounting capability, including revenue recognition and financial controls
- Strong Excel skills with demonstrated financial modelling experience
- Confidence influencing stakeholders through clear, actionable financial insight
Qualifications for the Management Accountant
- Professionally qualified accountant (CIMA preferred; ACCA or equivalent considered)
- Substantial post‑qualification experience in a management accounting or commercial finance environment
- Sound understanding of financial reporting, forecasting and governance
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Standard (BPSS) 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 [email protected] 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: 10/06/2026
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