Finance Analyst

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Finance Analyst

12-Month Fixed Term Contract, 3-4 days a week on site at Hinkley Point C.

Are you confident in analysing complex financial data to provide actionable insights that drive business decisions? Are you experienced in collaborating with cross-functional teams to challenge assumptions and improve financial performance? Are you skilled at using tools like SAP, Anaplan, or PowerBI to streamline financial reporting and forecasting processes?

If so, we have an exciting opportunity for you to join us as our next Finance Analyst here at Hinkley Point C!

The Opportunity

In this role, you’ll work closely with the financial planning and reporting, commercial, and project control teams to deliver the critical financial insights and reporting needed to drive success.

Collaborating with the Financial Control Manager, you’ll play a key role in optimising financial performance and maximising shareholder returns. This includes delivering actionable insights, supporting financial reviews, and identifying opportunities for improvement. Empowered to influence key performance indicators, you’ll be instrumental in driving financial excellence and providing valuable challenge on behalf of the business.

Pay, benefits and culture

Alongside a salary range of £50,000 - £60,000 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 will be doing…

You’ll play a key role in driving the stewardship and governance of the programme/function, ensuring strong accountability and insightful commentary for internal and external stakeholders. Working closely with the Financial Control Manager, you’ll review planning, budgeting, and forecasting information, challenging assumptions and decisions to maintain quality and consistency. By monitoring performance, identifying risks, and uncovering cost-saving opportunities, you’ll actively contribute to the programme’s success. Additional roles and responsibilities include:

• Ensure project financials and performance are aligned with committed expenditure and approved base budgets for each project or programme area.
• Collaborate with the Financial Control Manager by gathering financial performance data and working with the Commercial team to maintain consistent reporting across the HPC project.
• Take ownership of the Tier 2 Subcontract schedule and costs, driving improvements, monitoring financial KPIs, and identifying risks and opportunities. Maintain robust Cost Control Plans where applicable.
• Manage cash forecasting, including variance analysis and inputting forward cash forecasts into financial tools to assist the Treasury Department with accurate monthly funding requests from Shareholders.
• Support the monitoring and validation of the Main Civils Cost Control Plan, ensuring relevant actions are identified and updated.
• Provide financial process coaching and governance advice to the business.
• Assist the Financial Control Manager with tasks such as budget adjustments, posting journals, and conducting ad hoc financial analyses.
   

Who you are…

To thrive in this role, you’ll bring strong commercial or business experience and a proven ability to support and challenge performance while building effective internal relationships. Ideally, you are a fully or partly qualified accountant with a recognised UK professional organisation such as ACCA, ICAEW, ICAS, or CIMA. Familiarity with tools like SAP, Anaplan, PowerBI, or ECOSYS would be a valuable asset to enhance your impact. Additional experience we’re looking for includes:

• Strong relationship-building and stakeholder management skills, with excellent communication, influencing, and presentation abilities.
• Adept at navigating internal politics, balancing competing demands, and delivering customer-focused business partnering with an action-oriented mindset.
• Highly skilled in problem-solving, combining logic and intuition to develop effective solutions for both finance and business challenges.
• Strong commercial acumen and analytical skills, with the ability to present complex financial and business ideas clearly and appropriately for diverse audiences.
• Experienced in providing decision support, constructively challenging assumptions, and evaluating business performance and plans.
• Expert knowledge of financial processes, with a deep understanding of industry trends and external factors impacting the business.

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For this role you must have evidence of right to work in the UK. As a project, we do not discriminate on the grounds of age, gender, race, colour, religion, disability or sexual orientation, and we welcome applications from all sections of the community.