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.
The Finance Business Partner (FBP) acts as the interface between enterprise financial objectives and the performance of their business area, ensuring decisions are informed, aligned and value-driven. Working alongside senior stakeholders, the FBP 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, the FBP is highly influential in ensuring that financial performance aligns with organisational goals, driving continuous improvement in financial processes and business outcomes.
- Business partnering: build trusted relationships with senior leaders; translate complex financial and non-financial information to provide clear, actionable insight and constructive challenge on budgets, forecasts, risks and opportunities.
- Act as a trusted adviser, delivering clear financial guidance & decision support: Support business decisions, including but not limited to; investment choices, management of funding and forecasts, budget adherence, financial performance.
- Provide financial assurance and constructive challenge to maintain the integrity of financial processes and ensure compliance with accounting standards and internal financial policies.
- Lead and implement departmental improvement initiatives, enhancing processes, systems, and ways of working 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. (Supported by standard suite of reports and metrics provided by Business Performance & Analysis department).
- 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.
Essential Skills:
- Chartered accountant qualification (ACA, ACCA, CIMA, CIPFA).
- 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 the Business and its operations.
- Knowledge of Financial policies and procedures: In-depth knowledge of financial concepts, budgeting, forecasting, and cost management processes.
- Problem-solving skills: The ability to develop creative and effective solutions for business and financial challenges.
- Strong understanding of earned value and performance analysis metrics.
- IT Proficiency: Strong understanding of financial systems, with proficiency in SAP, Power BI and the full Microsoft Office suite.
Desirable Skills:
- Coaching and management skills: Experience in managing, coaching and developing finance teams to achieve high performance (in positions where line management is a requirement).
- Leadership skills: Proven experience in providing financial leadership and influencing decision-making.
- Experience in a large, complex organisation, ideally within the public or highly regulated sector.
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.
- 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 [email protected]
- 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:
- Authority to convene and chair forecast and performance review meetings for the business unit.
- Authority to challenge reported performance, budgets, forecasts and investment proposals, and to recommend corrective actions.
- Responsible for ensuring compliance with financial policies and internal controls within the business.
Dimensions:
- Accountable for the accuracy and quality of financial guidance and control activities.
- Role may include line management responsibilities
