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EDF Energy is a British integrated energy company with operations spanning electricity generation and the sale of natural gas and electricity to homes and businesses throughout the United Kingdom.
(more about EDF Energy)Senior Finance Manager (Retail Operations Business Partner)
Career Area:
Finance, Trading & Risk
Senior Finance Manager (Retail Operations Business Partner)
Contract type: Permanent
Working hours: We’re open to flexible working hours so whether you’re looking for full time, part time, job sharing or looking for flexible start/finish times, just let us know on your application
Location: We’ll support you to work flexibly from home (providing a suite of IT equipment), whilst coming together on site to offer face to face support and collaboration. There will also be ad-hoc travel to our London and Hove offices as required.
Closing date: Thursday 25th May 2023
Salary: Negotiable depending on experience
Join EDF as a Senior Finance Manager, working in partnership with the Senior Leadership of the Customers business where you’ll sit at the heart of all key decisions impacting operating costs, making a significant positive impact on performance, and helping the business to deliver its strategic and financial cost targets.
The opportunity…
The Cost Team are responsible for planning, forecasting and business partnering on a total operating cost base of c£800m. The Senior Manager will lead a team of Senior Analysts with a focus on supporting the Smart and Variable Metering elements of our cost base to manage and reduce costs whilst ensuring cost treatment is robust and in line with company policy and accounting standards.
You’ll be responsible for supporting the Customer Operations Executive Performance Reviews and reporting of the Company’s financial performance. In addition, you’ll support development of action plans to ensure delivery against the Governments BEIS Smart installation targets, acting as a strategic partner to the business by providing robust financial analysis and value-added support.
You will also be responsible for managing the financial planning process for Metering including production of the Medium-Term Plan, budgets, and monthly re-forecasts. Primarily forward looking, you will review planning, budgeting, and forecasting information focusing on challenging assumptions and decisions, ensuring quality and consistency. You’ll also partner Operations leads to define and monitor financial KPIs, CIP scorecard performance and set performance target in alignment to business strategy and planning. Finally, you will be expected to highlight and challenge adverse performance and/or risks and intervene when exceptions occur.
You’ll have the opportunity to get involved with new initiatives, investment appraisals, investigate the feasibility of new revenue streams and generally offer financial support to commercial decision makers and finance colleagues within the business units.
What we’re looking for…
You will have proven relevant experience gained in a senior role within Finance at a large organisation, as well as being a qualified accountant (ACA/ACCA/CIMA), or equivalent, with post qualification experience. You will also have the ability to work independently with a methodical and flexible approach to ensure deadlines are achieved.
To be successful in this role you will be customer-focused and possess demonstrable business partnering skills and experience. You will be able to interact with internal finance teams and operational stakeholders with ease and be confident at presenting. You will be excellent at developing and maintaining networks both insider and outside of Finance.
You will have knowledge of financial processes and an ability to consider full range of factors impacting a decision and able to compromise and negotiate, constructively challenging assumptions, business performance and plans. Be an excellent project manager as well as creative thinker. The role calls for both a starter and a coordinator.
Possessing strong problem-solving skills and an ability to use both logic and intuition to derive solutions for both finance and the business. You will be commercially astute with good analytical skills. Proven ability to influence and manage stakeholders and build effective working relationships across functions including at a senior level, as well as being a confident presenter.
For more information about this role, please contact Steph.Bonner@edfenergy.com
Our culture…
Adrian Davis, Senior Manager of Corporate & BCIT Finance, says ‘This is a fast paced and dynamic role at the heart of the operational business, with the added drive of challenging government targets for Smart Metering as part of Net Zero. This position has provided me with a great opportunity to build strong relationships with a cross section of field and commercial stakeholders, as well as adding value to Executive strategy on customer metering and critical large third-party contract decisions.’
At EDF, everyone’s welcome. We strive to create an inclusive and diverse environment where everyone has a voice and where you feel confident being yourself. We’re committed to equality, diversity, 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 an equal opportunity and disability confident employer. If you feel comfortable sharing with us that you have a disability, you meet the minimum criteria for the role, we will guarantee you an interview.
We’ll value the difference you bring and give you opportunities to thrive and succeed and to feel you belong.
Our benefits…
- Potential to earn 10% bonus
- 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays (increasing with service up to a maximum of 30 days)
- A defined contribution pension scheme
- Retail discounts and cashback deals
- Healthcare cash plan
- Technology benefits
- Government tax-free childcare
Option to purchase:
- Additional annual leave
- Dental insurance
- Gym membership
- Critical illness insurance
- Personal accident insurance
- Travel insurance
- Car breakdown cover
- Dining card
Join us and together we can help Britain achieve Net Zero.