Principal Financial Reporting Accountant

As a Principal Financial Reporting Accountant, you'll play a pivotal role in transforming profit & loss forecasts into actionable daily and monthly cash flows, providing crucial insights that drive business decisions.

Reporting directly to the Cash and Balance Sheet Manager, you'll be part of a dynamic, collaborative team dedicated to cash and debt reporting, offering strategic insights into billings and collections, and maintaining a strong control over the balance sheet.

You'll leverage and enhance the Anaplan reporting tool, ensuring accurate and insightful cash forecasts while collaborating closely with the Heads of Retail and Business segments to ensure they fully understand and own their forecasts.

Pay, benefits and culture

Alongside a competitive salary and a market-leading pension scheme, we offer a range of flexible benefits to support our people across all aspects of their lives.

Flexible working means you can work from home (if you wish) and we'll provide a suite of IT equipment to ensure that you can work remotely comfortably and effectively.

At EDF, everyone's welcome. We strive to create an inclusive and diverse environment where everyone has a voice and where you feel confident being yourself. We're committed to equality, 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, making adjustments as you need.

We'll value the difference you bring and offer opportunities for you to thrive and succeed.

What you'll be doing

You'll be responsible for producing precise daily and monthly cash forecasts for Treasury using Anaplan models and informed judgement. Leading monthly cash performance reporting, you'll provide in-depth variance analysis and guide discussions with Heads of Business Segments and the Finance Director. Your focus will be on engaging stakeholders to drive tangible cash improvements.

You'll own the cash inputs for regulatory submissions to Ofgem and monthly Corporate Finance reports, serving as the key point of contact for UK Group and Paris stakeholders. As part of the annual budget and medium-term planning process, you'll coordinate with stakeholders to ensure deadlines are met. You'll also update monthly segmented cash flows, lead reviews with Business Segment Heads, and coach teams to better understand these reports.

At times, you'll oversee Trade Receivables forecasting and handle month-end journal postings for debt provisions. Ensuring strong controls and accurate data, you'll meet external audit standards with confidence. You'll actively seek ways to enhance data use and drive efficiency by collaborating with the data team.

You'll maintain flexibility to support additional reporting tasks or short-term projects as team priorities shift. By collaborating with various teams across Finance, Revenue Collections, Data, and Corporate departments, you'll play a key role in influencing decisions and strategies.

You'll bring a blend of strong analytical skills and meticulous attention to detail, enabling you to interpret and dissect complex data with confidence. Your ability to analyse and synthesise large datasets will allow you to identify key insights and effectively communicate findings at the appropriate level of detail.

A natural curiosity will drive you to explore the factors influencing our performance and continuously seek ways to optimise and improve. In our dynamic, fast-paced environment, you'll thrive on change, demonstrating resilience, adaptability, and excellent organisational skills to prioritise tasks and meet critical deadlines.

Your communication skills will be a key asset, as you'll engage effectively across various platforms, tailoring your approach to influence senior stakeholders. By understanding different perspectives and aligning with organisational goals, you'll build strong relationships and achieve key deliverables.

You will have a talent for recognising trends and connecting disparate pieces of information, translating complex insights into clear, actionable recommendations. Autonomy and decision-making will come naturally to you, but you'll also know when to escalate or seek input from others. You won't just point out challenges-you'll propose solutions that move the business forward.

Collaboration is equally important in this role, and while you'll excel at working independently, you'll also thrive as part of a team. As a fully qualified management accountant (CIMA or equivalent), you'll bring deep financial expertise and strategic insight to the table.