Commercial Manager (Cost & Forecasting) (Sizewell C)

EDF Energy Limited; England; Remote; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

EDF Energy Limited is seeking a Commercial Manager (Cost & Forecasting) for Sizewell C to own the programme budget and integrated financial forecast. The role requires deep experience in cost controls and EAC/ETC governance, with close interaction with procurement, finance and client teams.

The ideal candidate will translate work plans into financial projections, monitor variances, and manage change impacts under NEC3 framework, ensuring transparent revenue and margin visibility across the

Qualifications

• Strong project cost management experience and financial forecasting ability.
• Experience in logistics, construction or infrastructure programmes.
• Advanced budgeting, forecasting and cost-to-complete capability.
• Demonstrable experience maintaining ETC and ETC positions.
• Ability to communicate complex financial information to stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Own and maintain the programme budget, cost baseline, and integrated financial forecast.
• Maintain robust Estimate to Complete and Estimate at Completion positions.
• Translate operational resource plans, material volumes, and activity forecasts into financial projections.
• Monitor actual expenditure against budget and forecast and explain material variances.
• Maintain visibility of purchase orders, subcontract commitments, accruals, and liabilities.
• Lead the cost-control element of month end and maintain accurate cost-to-complete projections.
• Track the financial impact of approved, anticipated and emerging change, including NEC3 Compensation Events.
• Maintain visibility of revenue, cost, margin, risks, and opportunities.
• Coordinate with Procurement, Finance, Project Controls, Operations and the Client Commercial Team.

Skills

Budget management

Financial forecasting

Excel modelling

Commercial awareness

Education

Degree or equivalent qualification

Professional qualification (RICS/AAT/CIMA/ACCA, etc.)

Tools

Microsoft Excel

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Commercial Manager (Cost & Forecasting) (Sizewell C)

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Commercial Manager (Cost & Forecasting) (Sizewell C)
Wilson James
Sizewell C

Job Responsibilities

• Own and maintain the programme budget, cost baseline, and integrated financial forecast.
• Maintain robust Estimate to Complete and Estimate at Completion positions.
• Translate operational resource plans, material volumes, and activity forecasts into financial projections.
• Monitor actual expenditure against budget and forecast and explain material variances.
• Maintain visibility of purchase orders, subcontract commitments, accruals, and financial liabilities.
• Lead the cost-control element of month end and maintain accurate cost-to-complete projections.
• Track the financial impact of approved, anticipated and emerging change, including NEC3 Compensation Events.
• Maintain clear visibility of revenue, cost, margin, risks, and opportunities.
• Coordinate with Procurement, Finance, Project Controls, Operations and the Client Commercial Team.

Other duties and responsibilities

• Work in accordance with:
  • Wilson James policies, site procedures and training provided
  • Wilson James core values:
    • We are fair and honest in all our activities;
    • We treat each other with dignity and respect;
    • We are responsible for all our actions and accountable for their consequences;
    • We have an environment that enables and supports effective communication;
    • We will continuously develop safe systems of work to ensure no one is placed at risk in our workplaces.
  • Customer policies
• Carry out any other reasonable request as required by your Line Manager or the Customer

Qualifications

Essential

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills at working and management levels.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel and financial-modelling capability.
• CITB HS&E Managers and Professionals certificate (MAPS), or project-accepted equivalent.
• Ability to satisfy all Sizewell C security, vetting and site access requirements.
• Relevant commercial, cost-management, quantity-surveying or finance qualification, or equivalent experience.

Desirable

• A degree or equivalent qualification in a relevant discipline.
• RICS, AAT, CIMA, ACCA or another relevant professional qualification.
• A working knowledge of:
  • Major infrastructure, construction or nuclear programme environments
  • NEC contract environments and associated governance
  • Logistics and supply-chain commercial models
  • Project controls, financial reporting and cost-management systems

Experience

• Strong project cost management, commercial controls or financial forecasting experience.
• Experience within logistics, construction, infrastructure or a comparable major programme.
• Advanced budgeting, forecasting and cost-to-complete capability.
• Demonstrable experience maintaining Estimate to Complete and Estimate at Completion positions.
• Strong understanding of accruals, commitments, month-end reporting and financial reconciliation.
• Experience maintaining revenue, cost, margin and change visibility across a complex contract.
• Excellent numerical and analytical capability with strong Excel and financial-modelling skills.
• Ability to interrogate complex data, explain variance and identify forward financial risk.
• Working knowledge of NEC contracts, preferably NEC3, is desirable.
• Ability to communicate complex financial information clearly to operational, commercial and client stakeholders.

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.

Why Join Us?

For more than 60 years, nuclear power stations in the UK have been quietly keeping Britain fuelled with massive amounts of home-grown energy.

Our teams up and down the country are proudly continuing to serve the nation – but they also have an eye on the future.

EDF is leading the UK's nuclear renaissance with the construction of a new nuclear power station at Hinkley Point C and plans for a new power station at Sizewell C in Suffolk.

Nuclear power is the most reliable, low-carbon energy source currently available to the UK. EDF is playing a key role in the development of nuclear sites, while Hinkley Point C will provide low-carbon electricity to meet 7% of the UK demand. The project is already making a positive impact on the local and national economy as well as boosting skills and education.

We're not just building new nuclear power stations. We're developing careers, upskilling generations and creating thousands of employment and apprenticeship opportunities across a variety of skills areas.

It takes a special kind of person to work in the nuclear energy industry and although we have thousands of them there's always a need for more.

Our industry has a mind-boggling range of opportunities and more jobs, and in more places, than you might think. But it's also an industry which is changing.

We're a responsible business and proud to be Britain's biggest generator of zero carbon electricity. With size, age and experience, we believe we can do even more.