Financial Accountant

Your role as Financial Accountant supports the Finance Manager and Heads of Business Partnering units, with optimising EDF RUK's cashflow management, maintaining financing relationships, both internal and external.

As our Financial Accountant, you will support in managing the relationships with our parent company Treasury teams and ensuring EDF RUK are delivering on its obligations.

This is a broad and commercial role that is closer to a business partnering role and different from a 'traditional' accountant role., As our Financial Accountant you will support managing the relationship with both Shareholders from a cash perspective, producing cash forecasts, drawing down for acquisitions and supporting any Dividend processes.

• Support managing the relationship with our Shareholder's Treasury teams, dealing with new and existing bank accounts, Governance, cash pooling implementation, interest and loan payments.


• Support managing the overall EDF RUK portfolio cash position, ensuring the organisation and its subsidiaries are sufficiently funded.


• A key contact for the presentation of cash information.


• Maintain all loans and interest across the portfolio, including Shareholder Loans, Revolving Credit Facilities and any bank debt.


• Participate in meetings with both internal and external stakeholders, for example to open new bank accounts, fund new projects and restructure loans.
  
  Committed to personal continuous improvement and development of skills and knowledge.


• Accounting qualification (ACA/ CIMA/ ACCA) and/or experience working in a similar role.


• Strong interpersonal skills to build relationships internally and externally.


• The ability to prioritise conflicting activities and be proactive.


• Act with complete integrity and confidentiality


• Strong numerical and analytical skills


• Able to challenge the way things are done and look at ways to make improvements to the business


• Proficient IT skills


• Knowledge of internal systems (SAP, BOFC, Anaplan, Power BI)


• Strong attention to detail


• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal
  
  At EDF Renewables UK & Ireland we're committed to tackling climate change. Our rapidly growing team of 500 talented people share an ambition to create a net zero future where clean, green, energy powers all our lives.


It's a huge ambition and time is of the essence if we are to play our full part in meeting the UK and Ireland's challenging net zero targets. With our unique mix of technologies including onshore and offshore wind, solar PV, battery storage and green hydrogen we are the UK & Ireland's most diverse generator of renewable energy.

To achieve our goal of generating a massive 10GW of renewable energy by 2035, we're working with stakeholders and communities throughout the UK and Ireland to unlock the enormous potential of the low carbon energy sector.

If you're passionate about tackling climate change to create the cleaner, greener future we all want, we would love you to come join us.

Join us, and let's do good together.

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At EDF Renewables we're dedicated to doing good things and we take pride in tackling the world's biggest challenge - climate change. We do this by embracing new ideas to create an innovative and open-minded culture, a culture where we trust the best versions of ourselves to make good things happen.

Alongside a competitive salary, bonus, and a market-leading pension scheme, we offer a range of flexible benefits, and employee discounts to help you thrive across all aspects of your life. You can spend your flexible fund on the benefits that matter to you, whether that's an electric vehicle, private healthcare, or additional holiday.

We'll offer you the flexibility, freedom and responsibility to make an impact in your role; whether that's on-site, in the office or hybrid working from home.

We're committed to championing diversity representation across gender, ethnicity, LGBT+, disability and more. This applies to all our roles, underpinned by our Everyone's Welcome inclusion programme.