Principal Analyst - Cost & Projects

Join a team where your financial insight can help shape the future of one of the UK's leading energy businesses. At EDF, Success is Personal. As a Principal Analyst within Business & Wholesale Services (BWS) Finance, you'll provide strategic financial leadership, drive performance improvement, and help deliver outcomes that matter to our customers, our business, and the future of low-carbon energy.
The Opportunity
As Principal Analyst, Cost & Projects, you'll play a pivotal role within the BWS Finance team, providing high-quality financial reporting, forecasting, and strategic insight that supports key business decisions. Working at the heart of Customers Finance, you'll help shape financial performance, influence senior stakeholders, and contribute to achieving ambitious EBIT targets across the business.
You'll join us on a competitive salary and benefit from flexible working arrangements, with travel to London (Nova North, Victoria) required as part of the role.
Working closely with senior leaders across Business & Wholesale Services, you'll use financial analysis, commercial insight, and data-driven recommendations to improve business performance. This is an opportunity to influence strategic decision-making, lead meaningful change, and develop your career within a dynamic and evolving part of EDF's Customers business.
Who You Are
We're looking for a commercially minded finance professional who combines strong analytical skills with the confidence to influence and challenge stakeholders at senior levels. You'll be comfortable managing multiple priorities, working with complex datasets, and translating financial information into meaningful business insight. Are you experienced in...?
Being a qualified accountant
Providing financial insight and strategic recommendations to support business decision-making
Analysing large and complex datasets to identify trends, risks, and opportunities
Delivering cost, capex, cashflow, and forecasting analysis
Building effective relationships with stakeholders, including senior leaders and directors
Communicating complex financial information to non-financial audiences
Identifying root causes of issues and implementing proportionate solutions
Working in fast-paced, evolving environments with competing priorities
Demonstrating strong commercial acumen and influencing skills
Using financial reporting and analysis tools to deliver accurate, impactful outputs
What You'll Be Doing
Providing accurate reporting and forecasting across operating expenditure, capital expenditure, headcount, balance sheet and cash performance
Delivering forward-looking financial insight and recommendations that influence business performance and profitability
Acting as a trusted Finance Business Partner to the BWS Senior Leadership Team
Supporting the annual four-year medium-term planning process through robust financial challenge and guidance
Consolidating financial reporting and forecasts across the wider BWS business, including gross margin performance
Driving continuous improvement initiatives to enhance financial processes, controls, and reporting quality
Managing project-based and ad hoc financial analysis, translating complex data into actionable recommendations
Building strong relationships across the business to align financial and strategic objectives
Leading engagement with external auditors, supporting governance, compliance and reporting integrity
Collaborating across the wider BWS Finance team to help create a high-performing and supportive working environment
Pay, Benefits and Culture
Alongside a competitive starting salary, potential annual bonus, and market-leading pension scheme, you'll have access to a range of flexible benefits designed to support you both professionally and personally.
We'll support your development through EDF training programmes, online learning, and opportunities to broaden your experience across Customers Finance and the wider EDF business. This role offers exposure to strategic decision-making, senior stakeholders, and some of the most important commercial priorities across EDF UK.
Our Customers Finance culture is built on challenge, opportunity, collaboration, and continuous improvement. We encourage innovation, support learning through cross-training and stretch assignments, and foster a diverse environment where different perspectives are valued. Regular team events and face-to-face collaboration help us maintain strong connections while working flexibly.
At EDF, we believe there are multiple definitions of what it means to succeed. That's why we offer you the freedom to develop a career that's unique to you. Here, Success is Personal. It's your journey, powered by us.
Everyone is welcome at EDF; we're committed to building a workforce that reflects gender balance, social mobility, and inclusion of minority ethnic backgrounds, LGBTQ+ communities, and those with disabilities. As a Disability Confident employer, we will support applicants requiring adjustments.
Join us and find your success at EDF!
Applications for this role close on 11th October
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Employment type
Full-time

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