Senior Management Accountant

Based at Culham, Oxfordshire (hybrid working)

Salary up to £44,618 plus a £2,000 South East Allowance and a generous benefits package

Permanent, 37.5 hours per week

The Civil Nuclear Constabulary (CNC) is an armed police service that’s dedicated to the nuclear industry. Our vision is to be recognised as a provider of a world-class service for the protection of nuclear material and facilities. Given the critical nature of our work, it’s vital that we recruit skilled and committed professionals, and we're now looking for a Senior Management Accountant to be part of our growing Finance team.

Our Senior Management Accountant (SMA) will coordinate our financial performance, providing strategic and operational financial analysis and modelling. You’ll coordinate the provision of a full Financial Management service, including annual budgets, quarterly forecasts and management accounts whilst building and maintaining constructive relationships with collaborators.

You’ll use a range of forecasting and review techniques to maintain financial control and project accurately, monitoring financial plans and leading the team to investigate variances from budgets. In alternation with other SMA’s you’ll take ownership of sales invoicing, apprenticeship levy reconciliations and consolidation of financial information for monthly and annual accounts, budgets, and forecasts. Our Finance team work as one – you’ll get involved with other team members to support with budgeting and forecasting, supporting audit activities and ensuring financial controls are maintained.

To join our collaborative team, you’ll need to be either Fully, or Part-Qualified and actively studying, with a recognised accountancy body (e.g. ACCA, CIMA, CIPFA) backed up with experience in an accountancy environment, ideally with some public sector experience. You will be a highly proficient user of Enterprise Resource systems and MS Office; with advanced Excel skills to maintain, develop, and build financial models – so you’ll also need outstanding numeracy, technical and analytical skills. You’ll be an excellent communicator – leading interactions with internal and external stakeholders and be a pro-active, results oriented team manager.

As police staff the public expect us to display the highest standards, values and professional qualities at all times. The CNC values and Code of Ethics applies to all police staff and sets out the principles and standards of behaviour we expect to see, and you are responsible for displaying and delivering these to the highest standards.

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.

Benefits of working for the CNC:

27.5 days annual leave (rising with 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). The employer contribution for this grade is up to £9,235 per year, and employee contribution of up to £3,658 - providing you with a total annual pension contribution of up to £12,893.
Flexi-time working scheme
Bonus scheme – dependent on organisational and personal performance, up to a maximum of 7% of salary
Subsidised Costa Coffee on site at HQ
Free parking on site
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
Enhanced family friendly and wellbeing policies
Cycle to Work scheme

As police staff the public expect us to display the highest standards, values, and professional qualities at all times. The CNC values and Code of Ethics applies to all police staff and sets out the principles and standards of behaviour we expect to see, and you are responsible for displaying and delivering these to the highest standards.

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion are central to the values of our organisation. At the 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.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact the Police Staff Recruitment Team to request accommodation.

Please review the video links below which will give you an overview of the vetting process that you will be required to go through if you are successful in your application to join the CNC:

Vetting: An Overview - https://youtu.be/lRit8RA7Zpo
Vetting and Finances - https://youtu.be/JmZP7r-9MEE
Vetting and Life Experiences - https://youtu.be/jVPHvgpB8nc