About the Role
At EDF, success is personal. Here you’ll develop a career that’s unique to you. Whether you want to move horizontally, deepen your specialty, or advance through the levels — it’s your journey, powered by us. Join us and be part be of our mission to help Britain achieve Net Zero.
The Opportunity
EDF are recruiting for three Paralegals to join the team on a 6-12 month fixed-term contract. As a Paralegal you’ll be specialising in debt recovery and work closely with the Managing Legal Counsel and a team of Paralegals within the Corporate & Customers Legal Team.
The role will involve providing proactive, preventative, and commercially focused debt recovery support to EDF Energy’s Customers business.
The successful candidate will also manage the full lifecycle of debt recovery litigation, including coordination of enforcement actions. In addition, the role will involve supporting litigation and preventative legal work for the Corporate & Steering Functions (CSF), which covers areas such as employment, supply chain, corporate finance, transactions, and board governance.
Pay, benefits and culture
Alongside a competitive starting salary and a market-leading pension scheme, your package will include 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
Working closely with the Managing Legal Counsel in:
- Providing full support across all contentious debt recovery matters across EBS, Small Business and Retail. The role will be predominantly providing full end to end debt recovery action for non-payment of energy charges.
- Taking ownership and pro-actively managing a large caseload of debt recovery matters to maximise recoveries.
- The role will include drafting proceedings, considering any Defences, instruction of counsel, drafting witness evidence, preparing court bundles and preparing witnesses for trial.
- Drafting accurate and legally persuasive procedural documents to be used in court.
- Instructing barristers (where needed and approved), advising the business on prospects of success.
- Working closely on court cases with Managing Legal Counsel and highlighting any legal risks succinctly in a timely manner.
- Maintaining an accurate matrix of all debt recovery matters on which Legal are instructed.
Who you are
- Strong experience in debt recovery, litigation, and dispute resolution.
- Background in regulated industries and customer-focused environments.
- Skilled in managing large caseloads; strong organisational and analytical abilities.
- Knowledge of county court enforcement methods (e.g. HCEO, charging orders).
- Experience with court advocacy and attending hearings (travel required).
- Commercially aware with broad legal knowledge.
- Effective communicator, able to advise stakeholders and senior leaders.
- Comfortable working under pressure and across multiple projects.
- Flexible, proactive, and willing to develop across legal areas.
- Proficient in MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint).
If this sounds like you then we’d love to hear from you!
Closing date for applications: 28th October 2025
Hiring Manager: Pat Holmes
Location: Flexible, London
Success is personal. It's your journey, powered by us. Join us and we'll help Britain achieve Net Zero together.
