A unique place to grow your career

At Sellafield Ltd, we are harnessing our expertise; bringing together world-class skills and innovative technology to solve complex nuclear, infrastructure, and engineering challenges. By joining Sellafield Ltd, you join an amazing team of people, from all walks of life, where you can thrive in a connected, considerate culture of innovation, collaboration, and community; and play a significant part in the UK’s sustainable nuclear future.

About the role

Reporting to the Senior Financial Controller, the Financial Controller is responsible for the financial management and oversight for their area of responsibility, providing core financial business partnering services to senior stakeholders. The role is accountable for ensuring robust financial governance and assurance, compliance with financial standards, and delivering clear, actionable information to support decision-making. By maintaining a close working relationship with business leaders and key stakeholders, the Financial Controller is highly influential in ensuring that financial performance aligns with organisational goals, driving continuous improvement in financial processes and business outcomes.

Key responsibilities

• Provide financial control services, ensuring high standards and effective resource management.
• Provide financial assurance and constructive challenge to senior stakeholders, maintaining the integrity of financial processes and controls and ensuring compliance with accounting standards and internal financial policies.
• Deliver clear financial guidance to support business decisions, including investment choices, management of funding and forecasts.
• Act as a trusted advisor to business leaders, offering professional guidance on financial performance, investment decisions, and long-term planning.
• Lead and implement departmental improvement initiatives, enhancing processes, systems, and reporting to support better decision-making.
• Engage with cross-functional teams to ensure financial alignment with broader business objectives, offering challenge and support where necessary.
• Analysis and interpretation of complex financial data, providing senior leaders with clear, actionable insights to inform decisions.
• Provide mentoring and coaching to the Management Accounting team, fostering high performance and enabling professional growth.
• Provide training and guidance to non-financial colleagues on financial matters, ensuring a clear understanding of financial performance, budgeting, and forecasting to support broader business objectives.
• Maintain continued professional development (CPD) to stay up to date with financial regulations and best practices, ensuring the business benefits from the latest financial expertise and insights.

Your Skills and Qualifications

Essential Skills:
• Professional accounting qualification: Fully qualified accountant (CIMA, ACCA, ACA, or equivalent).
• Strong communicator: An ability to present complex financial information clearly and effectively to non-financial colleagues.
• Well-developed influencing and interpersonal skills: Required to present financial solutions and recommendations to senior stakeholders.
• Knowledge of Financial policies and procedures: In-depth knowledge of financial controls, budgeting, forecasting, and cost management processes.
• Problem-solving skills: The ability to develop creative and effective solutions for business and financial challenges.
• Familiarity with earned value metrics and performance analysis in a project-based environment.
• IT Proficiency: Strong understanding of financial systems and proficiency in the full Microsoft Office suite.

Desirable Skills:
• Coaching and management skills: Experience in managing and developing finance teams to achieve high performance.
• Leadership skills: Proven experience in providing financial leadership and influencing decision-making at a senior level.
• Experience in a large, complex organisation, ideally within the public or highly regulated sector.

Why us?

At Sellafield Ltd, we are committed to supporting our employees in fulfilling their potential. With having 100 years of work in front of us, we offer comprehensive training and development opportunities, enabling you to feel inspired in your role. Whatever area you join us in, you’ll find a genuinely exciting and rewarding career.

Making sure our employees feel supported is important to us. Therefore, to help you get the most out of life in and outside of work, we also offer a range of employee benefits:
• You will benefit from an annual bonus of up to 15%, made up of company and personal performance
• An attractive defined contribution pension scheme – the company will match up to 13.5% for a 7% employee contribution!
• 30 days annual leave + bank holidays. Plus, the ability to purchase an extra 2.5 days per year.
• The ability to carry over 10 days annual leave each financial year
• Paid Sick Leave
• Family Friendly Policies – Visit our Rewards & Benefits page to read more
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Lifestyle Benefits sasra.co.uk
• Learning & Development Opportunities https://careers.sellafieldsite.co.uk/work-with-us/learning-and-development/
• Reward & Recognition Policies
• Welfare & Employee Assistance Programme
• Free Aviva Health App & Annual Health Check
• MyDiscounts – Employee Savings & Discounts
• MyBenefits – A Charity Giving Scheme
• Many, many more! Click this link to visit our Rewards & Benefits page: https://careers.sellafieldsite.co.uk/work-with-us/rewards-and-benefits/

Sellafield Ltd is a unique place to grow your career, offering a remarkable blend of role variety, job security, personal growth, professional development, and truly significant work. This is your opportunity to tackle some of the biggest challenges in the nuclear, infrastructural and engineering worlds and create a clean and safe environment for generations to come. Explore Sellafield Ltd today.

Additional Information

• The closing date for this vacancy is 26th August 2026.

• In the event of a high number of responses to any advert, Sellafield Ltd reserves the right to close the advert early. Once closed, the advert will be removed from our website. We encourage you to submit your application as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.

• As part of the application process you will be asked to provide evidence of your qualifications. Attaching them at application stage will ensure a smooth process and prevent delays.

• Please regularly check your Spam/Junk folders for news about this vacancy, correspondence could contain invitations to interview and other important updates.

• Sellafield Ltd are recognised as a Disability Confident Employer (Level 3). Disability Confident employers offer an interview to disabled applicants that meet the minimum criteria for a vacancy. Sellafield Ltd define the minimum criteria as the ‘essential skills’ which are listed on the vacancy notice. Whilst completing your application form, you will be able to indicate if you wish to be considered under the disability confident scheme. If you would prefer to discuss this directly with us, please contact the GBS Recruitment team on recruitment@sellafieldcloud.co.uk

• Please be aware that this role is subject to achieving security clearance. This role requires higher level of National Security Vetting where applicants must typically have 5 or 10 years of continuous residency in the UK. Factors such as your nationality, any nationalities you may have previously held, and your place of birth can restrict the level of clearance you’re able to achieve.

Authorities & Dimensions

Authorities:
• Responsible for ensuring compliance with financial policies and internal controls within the business.
• Authority to provide financial challenge and guidance to senior stakeholders, including recommendations on financial decisions and practices.

Dimensions:
• Manages a team of Management Accountants, overseeing their performance and development.
• Accountable for the accuracy and quality of financial reporting and control activities.