About the Role
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The Opportunity
A new opportunity has become available for a Finance Business Partner – Solar, Storage & Private Wire where you’ll be the key link between the business and other experts in the finance team.
The Finance Business Partner will play a key role to ensure delivery of developing the financial forecasts of the relevant assets and challenging the business teams on the assumptions driving these forecasts.
You will build trusting relationships with the managers you partner with, allowing honest and challenging conversations to happen and improve decision making as well as having a deep understanding of what drives profitability on a wide variety of assets, at different stages of their lifecycle and with different operating models.
This role is a key link between the business and other experts in the finance team and you will not only provide advice and guidance to the business but will know when to consult with specialists and escalate complex issues.
Pay, benefits and culture
If you're looking for somewhere to work where you can work hard, have some fun, whilst contributing to helping make Net Zero happen sooner - then you are in the right place!
Our passion for embracing new ideas and being open-minded to change is helping us to continue to grow successfully.
We are committed to helping all of our people thrive during their time with us, recognising and rewarding every person for their hard work and commitment.
Alongside a competitive salary, bonus, and a market-leading pension scheme, we offer a range of flexible benefits, and employee discounts to help you thrive across all aspects of your life. You can spend your flexible fund on the benefits that matter to you, whether that’s an electric vehicle, private healthcare, additional holiday or one or more of our other benefits.
We’ll offer you the flexibility, freedom and responsibility to make an impact in your role; whether that’s on-site, in the office or hybrid working from home.
We’re committed to championing diversity representation across gender, ethnicity, LGBT+, disability and more. This applies to all our roles, underpinned by our Everyone’s Welcome inclusion programme.
We’re a disability confident employer and we’ll do all we can to help with your application, making adjustments as you need.
What you’ll be doing
A key challenge for this role is the need to build trusting relationships with the managers they partner with, allowing honest and challenging conversations to happen and improve accuracy, performance and decision making.
- Partner with the Business Unit and deliver pertinent analysis to improve their financial performance on spaces such as cash flow and profitability.
- Constructively challenge the Business Unit and provide innovative solutions to lead to financial and operational improvements being made.
- Manage the relationship between the Finance department and business areas to ensure that the needs of both areas are mutually understood, and processes are delivered efficiently.
- Support risk management by ensuring business risks are recorded, assessed and monitored (including mitigations).
- Assist the development of financial forecasts for the Business Unit and ensure the forecasts are reviewed and updated on a regular basis.
- Understand and analyse external economic trends, including the impact on EDF RUK and recommend actions to meet new opportunities and threats.
- Represent EDF RUK Finance in key meetings with other business departments, EDF RUK Executive and external parties.
- Deliver documentation on the team’s key processes to ensure compliance (e.g. integrity and assurance on project costs).
What do you need to be great at this role?
As our Finance Business Partner for – SSPW you will demonstrate excellent communication skills and be able to convey complex information in a simple and concise way (both written and verbal) to stakeholders, adapting your style and content for the audience. You will have the ability to prioritise conflicting activities and be proactive, with strong attention to detail you will have knowledge of accounting policies, processes and systems.
You will also be able to demonstrate:
• Accounting qualification (ACA/ CIMA/ ACCA) with relevant post-qualification experience.
• Knowledge of both UK GAAP and IFRS, experience of preparing statutory accounts (if applicable) and the confidence to apply them to practical examples is essential.
• Able to challenge the way things are done and look at ways to make improvements to the business.
• Proficient IT skills (Spreadsheets, database, Visual basic)
• Committed to continuous improvement and development of skills and knowledge.
• Knowledge of internal systems (Power BI, Anaplan, SAP, BOFC)
• Act with complete integrity and confidentiality.
• Experience of the energy or services industry is desirable.
• Strong numerical and analytical skills.
Closing date for applications: 10th of April 2025
Location: We support you to work on a hybrid basis and work flexibly from home. The team for this role is based from our Durham office at Rainton Bridge.
Why EDF Renewables?
At EDF Renewables UK & Ireland we’re committed to tackling climate change. Our rapidly growing team of 500 talented people share an ambition to create a net zero future where clean, green, energy powers all our lives.
It’s a huge ambition and time is of the essence if we are to play our full part in meeting the UK and Ireland’s challenging net zero targets. With our unique mix of technologies including onshore and offshore wind, solar PV, battery storage and green hydrogen we are the UK & Ireland’s most diverse generator of renewable energy.
To achieve our goal of generating a massive 10GW of renewable energy by 2035, we’re working with stakeholders and communities throughout the UK and Ireland to unlock the enormous potential of the low carbon energy sector.
If you’re passionate about tackling climate change to create the cleaner, greener future we all want, we would love you to come join us.
What's in it for you?
Join us, and let’s do good together.
