EDF Limited Hiring for Portfolio Accountant Job at Bristol, England Full Time

Portfolio Accountant, Aztec West or Bridgwater, Permanent, Excellent Salary & Benefits

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Contract Type: Permanent, full time/part time
Location: Aztec West or Bridgwater with some flexibility including working from home

The Opportunity

Working on the Hinkley Point C, Nuclear New Build project, the Portfolio Accountant will support Digital & IT (inclusive of IT Operations) in managing the financial strategy. You will be commercially minded and able to business partner multiple stakeholders across IT providing financial insight, analysis and guidance to ensure fully informed decision making; as well as being the main link to Finance ensuring their support.

As a Portfolio Accountant, you will have to ensure the active management of the Digital & IT budget and provide regular status reports in order to support the decision-making prcesses of the Head of Project Services and Head of Operations. You will work closely with the Digital & IT Delivery Assurance and Governance team and with the HPC Finance directorate team to ensure accuracy of data, reporting and to ensure budget shuffles are actioned accordingly.

This is a senior position reporting directly into the Head of Digital & IT managing a combined Portfolio Delivery and IT Operational budget of circa £60m annually, providing budget planning, lifetime costs and ongoing cost tracking analysis

The Person

Day to Day Responsibilities:

Track and maintain Digital & IT costs and ensure the right reporting structure is in place and consistency across the data exist by:

• Managing the Budgeting and Forecasting processes for the Digital & IT portfolio. This includes LE1, LE2 and LE3 submissions annually, flexing to the ongoing changes within the directorate
• Ownership of budget planning, lifetime costs and ongoing cost tracking analysis within Digital & IT providing support to the Head of Digital & IT, Head of Business Architecture and IT Services, and Head of Information Management
• The production of slide decks to help decision making processes including influencing short, medium- and long-term strategies and investment prioritisation
• Leading Monthly Accounting Updates meetings with Finance at Director level, Analysing, highlighting and explaining monthly variances
• Supporting key senior stakeholders through financial modelling and analysis
• Supporting project managers with ongoing forecasting, cost tracking and reporting
• Working directly with the Head of IT Operations to track and improve efficiency in IT Operations costs management and reduction
• Ensure accurate, consistent and timely reporting is provided to the Portfolio Control Group
• Ownership of accruals and recharge process
• The review, and support in the development, of investment cases for delivery and ongoing IT maintenance run costs
• Adhoc analysis and project deep dives

The Skills

You will be characterised by the following knowledge, qualifications and experience:

• Qualified Accountant (CIMA/ACCA/ACA) with multiple years post qualification experience.
• Advanced Excel skills
• SAP and Anaplan experience
• Extensive, full-lifecycle experience
• Ability to lead, inspire and motivate a team of skilled IT professionals made up of internal and contract staff.
• Strong influencing, communication and stakeholder management skills to command professional respect and engagement at all levels
• Ability to work across and respect cross cultural sensitivity will be relevant as the role will face into a multi-national environment.
• Business partnering experience of engaging non-financial stakeholders
• High degree of accuracy and attention to detail
• Ability to organise work and deliver to tight deadlines
• Self-starter with high motivation and commitment

Key Competencies:

• Inspiration

o Having a clear vision, direction and sense of purpose.
o The ability to innovate, think laterally and tackle new areas of business risk and opportunity.
o Excellent communicator with the ability to adapt to different audiences, including influencing, negotiating, verbal, written and presentation skills.
o Strong and effective decision making.

• Integrity

o Being honourable, trustworthy, fair and honest – respecting confidentiality.
o Working with professionalism to achieve predictable results.

• Impact

o Self starter and quick learner
o Plans ahead, is able to identify critical business issues and works in a systematic way.
o Ability to influence at a senior level with both internal (within EDF Energy and EDF Group) and external audiences as required.

• Involvement

o Excellent stakeholder management skills and able to manage effective relationships at all levels of the organisation.
o Create a working environment of safety, autonomy and trust.
o Team player

Competitive Salary & Benefits

We offer a competitive salary and benefits package, including a pension scheme, a wide range of flexible benefits to suit your lifestyle, and the opportunity to earn bonus.

These roles are advertised on a full-time/part-time basis as standard with the opportunity to discuss flexible working arrangements.

Why EDF?

We’re an inclusive, disability confident employer and recognise the importance of employee well-being.

We’re about the people who work with us and we celebrate their diversities and embrace the value that their differences bring. We believe that a culture of inclusion forms the basis of a truly sustainable business and is vital to shaping a strong and fresh-thinking organisation, with a number of employer networks and benefits to suit your lifestyle.

We’re proud to be the UK’s largest producer of low-carbon electricity. We believe that, together, we can create a cleaner, low-carbon future.

Through innovation, dedication, and a firm commitment to electric and renewable energy – we believe we can change everyone’s future for the better.

Join us. Generation Electric. Everyone’s welcome.