Financial Analyst

EDF Energy; Morecambe; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 49,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading energy firm in Morecambe is seeking a Finance Analyst to ensure accurate financial reporting and compliance. The role involves contributing to monthly financial cycles and liaising with various departments for cost management. Candidates should be part-qualified accountants with strong financial modelling skills. This position offers a starting salary between £35,059 and £48,943, along with competitive benefits and a commitment to diversity and inclusion.

Benefits

Attractive pension scheme

Health insurance

Gym membership

Travel season ticket loans

Qualifications

• Good financial modelling skills are essential.
• Experience in planning, budgeting & forecasting is required.
• Proven ability to build effective relationships across functions.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the monthly financial reporting cycle.
• Review planning, budgeting, and forecasting information.
• Challenge budget holders on financial decisions.

Skills

Financial modelling skills

Management information analysis

Problem solving

Decision support skills

Education

Part-Qualified accountant (CIMA, ACCA, ICAEW)

Tools

SAP

Job description

About the Role

Finance Analyst

Are you looking for a role where your knowledge, skills and experiences are utilised in a unique environment, if so, we are currently seeking a Finance Analyst here at Heysham 1 Power Station to join the Commercial Department on 18-month Fixed Term Contract. If you feel your skill set would suit this role, then we would love to hear from you!

The Opportunity

As a Finance Analyst, you'll be working alongside the Finance Lead and Management Accountant as part of a small but well-established finance function within a dynamic and fast-paced environment. You'll play a key role in ensuring accurate financial reporting, compliance, budgetary control and staff cost forecasting. This is a great opportunity to work as part of a larger Commercial Team in ensuring we deliver strong financial management for Heysham 1.

Pay, benefits and culture

We are offering a starting salary of between £35,059 and £48,943 with terms and conditions covered by the EDF Nuclear Generation Company Agreement. The starting salary for the appointment will be dependent on your existing salary, competence, experience and qualification. We also offer an attractive pension scheme along with some great company benefits. 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 travel season ticket loans.

Here at EDF UK, 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

Framework & Boundaries

The role requires a commercially focused, proactive, flexible thinker with a core understanding of financial principles. You will combine technical and financial expertise with good interpersonal and multi-tasking skills and will be empowered to ensure accurate and robust cost information and will have direct responsibility for challenging the business. You will be involved in producing accurate monthly accounts, ensuring key financial controls are effective, and liaising closely with other departments to provide accurate forecasts of in year spend. The Finance Analyst provides valuable support to the Finance Lead to provide challenge, assurance and reporting of robust financial information to support decision-making by the HY1 Leadership team and external stakeholders

Principal Accountabilities:

• Contribute to the monthly financial reporting cycle, including collation of data and calculation of monthly accruals, business partnering and challenging functional teams to ensure robustness and auditability of financial information.
• Review and collate planning, budgeting and forecasting information focusing on challenging assumptions and decisions, ensuring quality and consistency.
• Provide insight and input into the presentation of timely, accurate and relevant management information.
• Challenge budget holders on financial decisions and identify opportunities for cost savings with the core mind-set of Value for Money and Financial Control at all times.
• Work closely with HR Business Partners to ensure that staff cost information is reported in an accurate and robust manner.
• Support to periodic cost/financial controls verification process
• Implement best practice financial behaviours and support the finance team in driving a strong culture of cost control and value for money.

Who you are

Essential

• Part-Qualified accountant (CIMA, ACCA, ICAEW etc.) or individual suitably qualified by experience
• Good financial modelling skills
• Experienced in planning, budgeting & forecasting
• Ability to co-ordinate financial activities (e.g. monthly reporting or business planning)
• Strong management information analysis and reporting, presentation, problem solving and decision support skills
• Proven ability to build effective working level relationships across functions including at a senior level

Desirable

• Experience of financial systems (SAP)
• Experience of working with payroll
• Commercial awareness and knowledge of the energy sector

Key Competencies

• Highly motivated and able to thrive under pressure and tight deadlines
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills including flexibility to adjust key messages
• Capable of multi-tasking, whilst adapting to an evolving and maturing environment and able to react to changing priorities
• Questioning Attitude, being able to challenge the way things are done and look at ways to improve
• Act with complete integrity and confidentiality
• Great attention to detail
• Committed to continuous improvement and development of skills
• Works in a professional manner at all times and pro-actively seeks to share knowledge around the internal teams

This advert will close on - Sunday September 28th

Interview will be held week commencing - Monday October 6th

To be appointed to this role, you will need to meet the criteria for Counter Terrorist Check (CTC) which will, ordinarily, require you to have British residency for the last 3 years.

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