Management Accountant - Fixed Term Appointment

Up to £41,227 plus a £2,000 South East allowance per annum and generous benefits package.

Based at Culham, Oxfordshire (hybrid working)

12 month fixed term appointment

Full-Time (37.5 hours per week)

The Civil Nuclear Constabulary (CNC) is an armed police service dedicated to the nuclear industry. Our vision is to be recognised nationally and internationally as the United Kingdom’s leading organisation for the provision of protective policing for the civil nuclear industry and other critical national infrastructure. Given the critical nature of our work, it’s vital that we recruit skilled and committed professionals to our team.

We’re looking for a Management Accountant to provide technical business partnering across monthly financial reporting, budgeting, and forecasting — with an emphasis on process efficiency and improvement, alongside the production of robust management information to support effective decision making. You’ll take ownership of month-end reporting processes including the analysis and production of reporting packs, and leading the budgeting and forecasting exercises, receiving financial submissions, consolidating and incorporating into financial plans. You will work closely with internal and external customers and stakeholders, managing relationships, providing financial advice, developing reporting and supporting with tracking and financial modelling. Alongside our Financial Control team, you’ll help to produce accurate and timely end of year accounts, ensuring that financial controls are maintained and undertake audit activities. Your keen eye for detail will ensure the integrity of our data and work closely with our System Support team to develop and improve reporting, processes and models. You’ll have good knowledge of Managing Public Money and ensure that the CNC are following these principles.

To be successful in this role you should be AAT Qualified or be actively studying towards a professional qualification with a recognised Accountancy body (ACCA, CIMA, CIPFA) with experience in an accountancy environment, providing management reporting and facilitating budgeting and forecasting processes. You will be highly experienced using Enterprise Resource Planning systems and MS Office applications, and be an advanced user of Excel to maintain, develop, and build financial models. You will be an effective communicator and confident in collaborating with stakeholders.

Please note that this role will initially be based at our HQ Culham until our relocation to Harwell in Autumn 2026 and the role thereafter will be based at Harwell.

Benefits:

• 27.5 days annual leave (rising each year after 2 years’ service) plus bank holidays
• Additional 30 minutes time worked during the week to accrue additional leave, which can be used for period between Christmas and New Year
• Generous pension scheme (20.7% employer contribution, 8.2% employee)
• The employer contribution for this grade is £7,663 minimum per year, and minimum employee contribution of £3,035. A total minimum annual pension contribution of £10,698!
• Flexitime working scheme.
• Bonus scheme – dependent on organisational performance, up to a maximum of 7% of salary
• Officers and staff also have the opportunity to join the national Blue Light Card scheme which offers discounts on a variety of products and services to those working in the emergency services, NHS, and Armed Forces
• Free gym on-site
• Free on-site parking
• Amenities on-site including a subsidised Costa Coffee, restaurant and deli
• Enhanced family friendly and wellbeing policies
• Cycle to Work scheme.

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion are central to the values of our organisation. At CNC we value and embrace the unique experiences, identities and abilities that each of us bring to our roles. We strive to empower everyone to bring their authentic self openly and safely to work. Through the dedicated commitment of our affinity networks, ED&I team and wider HR departments, we are on a journey to embed our ED&I commitments, ensuring the CNC is an employer of choice, where everyone feels included.

If you have any questions, please feel free to get in touch with us at policestaffresourcing@cnc.police.uk. If you are interested in applying for this role, please follow the link below. You will need to ensure you attach your CV and a Covering Letter that detail your suitability against the above responsibilities and experience.