Senior Finance Manager - Corporate Management & Reporting
Abingdon Rd, Culham, UK
Full-time
Salary: £59,723 + excellent benefits including outstanding pension
Division: Finance, Systems & Pensions
Site Location: UKAEA Culham, Oxfordshire
Confirmed Grade: Level 6
Department: Finance & Pensions
Company Description
By 2050, the planet could be using twice as much electricity compared to today. Are you interested in contributing and helping to shape the future of the world's energy? If so, read on.
Fusion, the process that powers the Sun and Stars, is one of the most promising options for generating the cleaner, carbon-free energy that our world badly needs.
UKAEA leads the way in realising fusion energy, partnering with industry and research for groundbreaking advancements. Our goal is to bring fusion electricity to the grid, supported by tomorrow's power stations. In pursuit of our mission, UKAEA embraces core values: Innovative, Committed, Trusted, and Collaborative.
As an employee of UKAEA you will benefit from:
- Outstanding defined benefit pension scheme, details of which can be found at the end of this advert.
- Corporate bonus scheme up to 7% and a Relocation allowance (if eligible).
- Flexible working options including family friendly policies and the right to request flexible working from the start of your employment.
- Employee Assistance Programme and trained Mental Health First Aiders.
- Generous annual leave allowance starting with 25 days, plus 3 days Christmas closure and 2.5 privilege days, in addition to UK bank holidays.
- Wide range of career development opportunities.
- A vibrant culture committed to equality and being fully inclusive.
The salary for this role is £59,723 and you will be expected to be onsite for a minimum of 60% of your working hours.
Job Description
This role is based at Culham, Oxfordshire.
This role requires employees to complete an online Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS), including The Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) checks for criminal convictions.
The Role
Are you looking for an exciting opportunity to make a difference? Join our team and contribute to the future of fusion energy. As Senior Finance Manager, you will act as a trusted business partner to a Directorate and Enabling Functions within UK Atomic Energy Authority, ensuring excellence in corporate reporting, driving operational efficiency, strengthening control and planning of expenditure - in both the operational and strategic time horizon, providing financial advice and insight, driving financially sound decision making and supporting acquisition of new funding streams and ensuring their incorporation into the financial framework. You will work in partnership with Executive & Programme Offices and Divisional and Executive Directors, externally with audit leads or DESNZ colleagues.
Additional Responsibilities:
- Providing information and advice to senior management, working closely with the Director of Finance in liaison with DESNZ finance and policy on financial forecasts, actuals and risks.
- Focus on establishing and continuously improving management information. Build strong relationships with colleagues managing parallel reporting processes such as project management office, exec office.
- Consolidation and analysis of UKAEA PSRE financial performance, striving for simplicity and automation, providing standard management information out to business partnering teams. Owning the change control process for budget variations.
- Ownership for financial planning for central overheads & expenditure (c£20m), and other indirect costs (c.£15m). Manage the people cost assumptions, cost allocation methodology and associated reporting.
- Drive consistency, simplicity & efficiency in reporting of financial & related performance reporting (KPIs, related impacts & benefits) across UKAEA Group, ensure linkage to and leverage of existing systems & control of master data reporting structures, strong integration with Procurement and People performance reporting.
- Responsible for overall co-ordination of the finance reporting calendar, establishing clear timetables for budgeting & forecasting and effective communication/training to business leads.
Qualifications
Essential Requirements:
Please include a covering letter of no more than 500 words, outlining why you are suitable for the role.
- Fully qualified accountant, with significant post qualification experience in a senior role. Ideally with extensive experience as a business partner, dealing with technical and/or scientific customers.
- Highly motivated with capability to lead & develop direct reports and support overall development of the finance team.
- Ability to establish strong working rapport with internal and external customers representing a variety of professional disciplines.
- Experience of working with and advising programme leadership teams.
- Experience in business case development and analysis.
- Understand the principles of revenue recognition and accounting for grant funding, appreciation of multi-funding control requirements.
Additional Information
For a full list of benefits and to apply, select the apply button to be taken through to the UKAEA careers pages.
We welcome applications from under-represented groups, particularly individuals from black and other ethnic minority backgrounds, people with disabilities, and women. Our Executive team, supported by our 'Equality, Diversity and Inclusion' (EDI) Partner and Inclusion Ambassadors, actively promotes EDI and takes steps to increase diversity within our organisation. We reinforce best practices in recruitment and selection and evaluate approaches to remove barriers to success.
Please note that vacancies are generally advertised for 4 weeks but may close earlier if we receive a large number of applications.