Finance Business Partner Abingdon Rd, Culham, UK Full-time Salary: £37,509 + excellent benefits including outstanding pension Division: Finance, Systems & Pensions Site Location: UKAEA Culham, Oxfordshire Confirmed Grade: Level 4 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 worlds 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 ground-breaking 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 .
Job Description
The salary for this role is
£37,509. Onsite working
is expected for
3 days a week, however, we actively support requests for flexible working.
This role is based at the following site;
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 and possibly a search of open source data.
As part of your application, please submit your
CV, as well as a
Covering Letter
detailing your suitability to the role applied.
Please note, there are
three
vacancies available as part of this advert.
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 Finance Business Partner, you will play a pivotal role in supporting the delivery of business objectives, providing planning & analysis, accounting, reporting and costing support to inform decision making and drive financial performance, whether this be for providing financial input into a new business case or closing the monthly accounts, accuracy, timeliness, collaboration and understanding of performance essential.
Key Accountabilities:
- Review and analyse performance, producing reports and commentary for individual project managers and business unit management to enable monitoring of profitability against budget and recommend corrective action if required. - Provide costing information into project managers and finance review of proposals as required, to enable bids and contracts to be issued on a timely basis. - Prepare and analyse month end accounts, ensuring accurate recognition of expenditure & revenue in accordance with UKAEA financial policy. Working closely with your business area and in collaboration with the broader finance team. - Support the business budgeting and forecast processes, build productive relationships with project managers and senior managers to enable the creation of robust budgets and periodic forecasts at project and at a consolidated business unit level. - Produce formal financial customer reports and liaise with auditors (UK and European) in order to facilitate payment for work performed. - Support the maintenance of a robust control environment, including responsibility for relevant balance sheet accounts appropriate to the business area, such as prepayments, accruals, Work in Progress, Income in Advance are fully reconciled with adequate supporting documentation available for audit purposes. - Liaise with the Capital Project Accountant over the reporting of capital expenditure and associated commentary to ensure clarity as to spending and reasons for variances. - Support finance wider initiatives, such as testing of new reports & upgrades.
Qualifications
Essential:
- AAT Qualified/in final stages (qualified within next 6-months). - Part-Qualified (ACCA, ACA, CIMA), or qualified by experience. - Experience with project costing and forecasting. - Experience working closely with business teams in a business partnering environment. - Understand the principles of revenue recognition. - Understand multi-funding control requirements. - Good written and oral communication skills. - Good attention to detail
able to work on occasion to challenging timescales while still ensuring accuracy. - Ability to work as a team player & under own initiative. - Highly proficient in Excel and have experience of an ERP accounting system (Unit 4
Agresso would be an advantage).
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 talented people from all backgrounds who want to help us achieve our mission. We encourage applications from under-represented groups, particularly from women in STEM, people from Black British Caribbean and African, Pakistani and Bangladeshi British, and other ethnic minority backgrounds, people with disabilities, and neurotypical individuals. Our Executive team, supported by our 'Head of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion' (EDI) and Wellbeing and our EDI Networks actively promote Inclusion 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.
For applicants applying from outside the United Kingdom or those who have spent time outside the UK in the last five years, please visit the UK Government website for information on criminal records checks. If your country of residence or previous residence is not listed on the website or if the UK Government does not have information on obtaining a criminal records check from that state, we regret to inform you that we cannot process your application. TPBN1_UKTJ