Job Description For more information on UKIFS, visit: https://careers.ukaea.uk/wp-content/uploads/download/UKIFS_CandidateRecruitmentPack.pdf This vacancy is to be based at the UKIFS site in West Burton, Nottinghamshire. This role requires employees to complete an online Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) including The Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) checks for criminal convictions. The Role Are you looking for an exciting opportunity to make a difference on a global scale? Join our team and contribute to the future of fusion energy as Financial Controller in the UKIFS Finance Team. In this role you will play a pivotal role in ensuring the company’s financial health and compliance with all relevant standards and regulations, delivering a robust financial control framework and accurate financial reporting as UKIFS transitions to a company with increasingly complex financial processes and transactions as it designs and builds a prototype fusion energy plant. You will support the Finance Director in the financial transformation to a registered company that leads a complex major programme with large delivery partners from industry. Building a company within fusion is new to the UK, and whilst this is an exciting challenge, you will need to be comfortable with uncertainty and ambiguity as we build UKIFS Ltd. and its team. The role will be helping to lead the establishment of a major programme and limited company at its foundation stage. You'll have the opportunity to build a team, set strategies and design and embed new procedures and processes as the company develops. Additional Responsibilities: Build and lead an effective financial control team through hiring, coaching and development, providing leadership, guidance, mentorship and support Develop and implement robust internal controls to safeguard company assets and ensure the accuracy of financial records Ensure the responsible use of public funds across the company Lead on the production of the UKIFS annual report and accounts, and financial reporting to our Shareholder and to government, managing internal audit and external audit processes and ensuring that reporting meets relevant standards with statutory law and financial regulations Establish strong relationships with senior stakeholders both internally and externally, in particular with UKAEA Group finance, the UKIFS Audit and Risk Committee, internal and external auditors, industry Partners, and senior UKIFS staff Provide technical accounting advice to the business on application of accounting standards and any budgeting implications of complex transactions Senior service delivery owner in UKIFS Finance for the Corporate Services agreement with our parent, UKAEA.