Management Accountant - 12 Month Fixed Term Contract

Blend personal growth and professional development with purposeful work. We’re offering a 12‑month fixed‑term opportunity to join our Finance team as a Management Accountant. Working within Finance Business Partnering, the Management Accountant is part of a friendly, service line‑aligned team that supports key operational and project activity across the organisation. The role provides exposure to a range of service areas, helping to build a well‑rounded understanding of performance and supporting informed decision‑making. The position involves preparing and interpreting financial information, including variance analysis and cost forecasting, and helping to identify emerging risks and opportunities. By working closely with colleagues across Finance, Commercial, and Project teams, the Management Accountant contributes to the production of accurate, timely, and meaningful financial insights that support effective planning and improved performance. This is a great opportunity for someone looking to develop their experience in a collaborative environment while making a valuable contribution over a defined period.

Key Responsibilities

• Offer constructive, professional financial challenge and validate operational assumptions, working closely with delivery teams to understand spend, earned value, resourcing, schedules and constraints to ensure accuracy, realism and early identification of pressures or benefits.
• Maintain strong visibility within the service line’s operational environment, building a detailed understanding of work scope, delivery progress, risks and opportunities.
• Act as an early detector of financial concerns and emerging risks by linking operational activity directly to cost impacts.
• Contribute to standardisation and continuous improvement of processes to enable improved effectiveness and efficiency of the Finance Business Partnering service.
• Ensure that all service line financial activity complies with relevant financial policies, internal control frameworks, delegated authorities and public‑sector governance expectations.
• 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.
• Conduct detailed variance analysis across the assigned service line to understand root causes, trends, scope impacts and emerging risks that need escalation.
• Provide clear, actionable commentary that articulates changes in cost, schedule, delivery progress or scope within the service line.

Your Skills & Qualifications

• Strong communication skills: Able to effectively convey complex financial information to non‑financial colleagues at all levels of the organisation, ensuring clarity and understanding.
• Professional accounting qualification: Qualified member of the Association of Accounting Technicians (AAT) or equivalent degree‑level/accounting qualification.
• Analytical expertise: Demonstrated ability to analyse financial data, identify trends, and inform accurate financial forecasting.
• Attention to detail: High level of accuracy and thoroughness. Demonstrates precision in the analysis and interpretation of financial data, ensuring the accuracy of insights and recommendations that inform decision‑making.
• IT proficiency: Competent in using the full MS Office suite, particularly Excel for financial analysis and reporting.
• Accountancy qualifications: Fully or part‑qualified accountant (CIMA, ACCA, ACA).
• Power BI skills: Experience in using Power BI.

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 10%, 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.
• Cycle to Work Scheme.
• Lifestyle Benefits.
• Learning & Development Opportunities.
• 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!

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

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.