Finance Lead

Are you looking for a new and exciting step in your career journey?  Do you currently deliver on strategic, challenging projects and are looking for a new opportunity to challenge your experience and help work on something which is making the UK a better place? If you’re an experienced commercial leader looking for an exciting opportunity in the energy sector, Sizewell B Power Station have just the job for you!

The opportunity

We’re recruiting for an experienced Finance professional, someone who can bring experience from the energy industry into EDF and make an immediate impact. As our Finance Lead, you’ll be working with internal and external stakeholders to ensure the delivery of all financial objectives and continuously improve local performance. Working on direct accountability for the functioning, effectiveness and productivity of the Sizewell B Finance Group, you’ll have influence at a senior level with our site leaders. The role is based on-site at Sizewell B Power Station.

Pay, benefits and culture

The salary range associated with this role is between £71,101 - £84,892. This is alongside a market-leading pension scheme and a package including a range of benefits, from the big and formal to the small and personal. We’re talking about everything from enhanced parental leave to electric vehicle leasing, health insurance to product discounts, critical illness insurance to technology vouchers, gym membership to season ticket loans.

At EDF UK, we embrace flexibility while recognising that everyone’s working needs are different. Whether you’re in our office spaces, on site, or working remotely, we promote an environment that supports collaboration, connection, and comfort. No matter where you are, our priority is to make sure you feel safe, valued, and celebrated.

Here, we do right by each other and everyone’s welcome. We’re on an action-oriented journey, championing equity, diversity, and inclusion. We’d like our future workforce to have an equal gender balance, represent a broad mix of people from minority ethnic backgrounds, LGBTQ+, those with a disability and supporting social mobility. We’re a disability confident employer and we’ll do all we can to help with your application. Please let us know if you need to request reasonable adjustments.

We take pride in fostering a dynamic and inclusive environment, where the diverse backgrounds and experiences of our employees drive fresh thinking and innovation. We understand that success means different things to different people. We believe there are multiple definitions of what it means to succeed. That’s why we support you to pursue a career that’s unique to you. Because success is personal.

What you’ll be doing

In this role, your responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:

• Provision of strong stewardship and governance of the Station Finance arrangements
• Reviewing planning, budgeting and forecasting information, focusing on challenging assumptions and decisions, ensuring quality and consistency and advising the station leaders. This includes shaping the strategic direction towards the achievement of long-term financial objectives, developing key assumptions, reviewing the capital plan and optimising asset replacement cycles
• Providing input and suggestions to the Business Support Manager, defining proactive financial analytics, recommendations and support
• Defining and monitoring financial KPI’s and setting performance targets in alignment to business strategy and planning, intervening when exceptions occur
• Supporting financial review meetings with the Business
• Playing a lead role in the delivery of year-on-year improvement by adopting a philosophy of continual improvement
• Supporting the delivery of formal reporting to track financial progress and performance as required
• Liaising with other internal stakeholders including the Station Management team and supply chain peer groups to ensure delivery of all financial objectives, share best practice and continually improve local and fleet performance
• Direct accountability for the line management, functioning, effectiveness, productivity and output quality of the Finance group
• Ensuring that the suite of Station finance controls and governance arrangements are aligned to company practices, adhered to and able to be evidenced.

Who you are

As the Finance Lead, you need a proven commercial or financial background with a particular focus on value, strategic thinking and delivery of targets. You must be a Chartered Accountant with relevant professional qualifications (e.g., ACA, ACCA, CIMA, CIPFA) and holding a relevant degree may be an advantage. Preferably you will have experience in the energy sector or a highly regulated environment.

Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to form working relationships across a diverse range of stakeholders, potentially at times with competing priorities and objectives, is paramount. You should also have experience of presenting plans, analysis and recommendations to senior leaders with the ability to influence and ensure commercial and regulatory impacts are central to any key business decisions made. You should also have a track record of delivering results, able to influence internal and external partners for the best interests of the business.

Closing date for applications: Sunday 13th October

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