Financial Control Manager

at  EDF Limited

FINANCIAL CONTROL MANAGER

Are you comfortable navigating complex financial data and using it to provide strategic insights and recommendations? Are you adept at building and maintaining strong relationships with key stakeholders to influence decision-making and drive financial performance? Are you skilled at managing and challenging financial performance while balancing competing demands and priorities?
If so, join us as our next Financial Control Manager, where your skills and dedication will shape the safety and success of our operations.

WHO YOU ARE…

To excel in this role, you’ll need strong skills in building and maintaining relationships with key stakeholders, along with exceptional communication, influencing, and presentation abilities. Being able to balance competing demands, and a customer-focused approach are essential. Your problem-solving skills, blending logic and intuition, will drive solutions that benefit both finance and the business. With strong commercial acumen and analytical expertise, you’ll present complex financial and business ideas clearly, tailored to your audience. Additionally, solid decision-support experience is key to your success.

We’re also looking for you to hold the below:

• Strong commercial and business acumen with hands-on experience driving performance.
• Qualified accountant with credentials from a recognised UK Professional Organisation (e.g., ICAEW, ICAS, CIMA).
• Proven track record in managing, supporting, and challenging performance and internal relationships.
• Familiarity with tools such as SAP, Anaplan, PowerBI, and ECOSYS is a plus.
• Knowledge of industry trends and a solid grasp of external factors impacting the business.
• Exemplifies leadership behaviours and embodies HPC values.
• In-depth expertise in financial processes, ensuring smooth operations.
• Skilled in negotiation and compromise, with a knack for constructively challenging assumptions and business performance.

WHAT YOU’LL BE DOING…

As a Financial Controls Manager, you’ll offer insightful analysis and commentary to both internal and external stakeholders. You’ll be responsible for reviewing planning, budgeting, and forecasting, with a focus on challenging assumptions, ensuring quality, and maintaining consistency. Additionally, you’ll advise the Programme Leadership Team on shaping the strategic direction to achieve long-term financial objectives, while identifying potential risks and cost-saving opportunities. Additional roles and responsibilities include:

• Ensure project financials are aligned with committed expenditure and the approved base budget for each project or program area.
• Actively participate in monthly project review meetings with key stakeholders across all delivery areas to assess financial performance, collaborating with the Commercial team to ensure consistent reporting across the HPC project.
• Lead the development of proactive financial analytics, offering recommendations and support to drive informed program decisions.
• Define and monitor financial KPIs, setting performance targets aligned with business strategy and planning, and intervening when necessary.
• Lead financial review meetings within the program or function to identify, investigate, and mitigate risks, issues, and opportunities, while agreeing on interventions and management actions to optimise performance.
• Provide coaching to the business on how to interpret and act on financial reports and information effectively.
• Support negotiations with external parties, including supplier contracts, service providers, and regulatory bodies, to safeguard NNB’s financial position.