Group Financial Controller - Hybrid - Sunderland, UK

About the Role

We are seeking an experienced and strategic Group Financial Controller to lead consolidated financial reporting and analysis across EDF RUK. This pivotal role provides critical insight to the Executive and Shareholder teams, ensuring robust compliance with reporting and statutory audit requirements. As the leader of the central finance team, you will coordinate with Business Unit finance leads, safeguarding the integrity of financial data and reporting, drive the monthly close process, and oversee planning, forecasting, and budgeting activities. This is a high-impact opportunity to shape the finance function of a rapidly growing business, helping to design best-in-class processes and invest in the systems and data needed to support EDF RUK’s ambitious growth.

Pay, benefits and culture

If you’re looking to join a company where you can work hard, have fun, and help to create a Net Zero future – then you’re in the right place! Our passion for embracing new ideas and being open-minded to change helps us continue to grow successfully. We’re committed to helping all of our people thrive during their time with us, recognising and rewarding every person for their hard work and commitment. Alongside a competitive salary, bonus, and 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, additional holiday or one or more of our other benefits. 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. We’re a disability confident employer and we’ll do all we can to help with your application, making adjustments as you need.

What you’ll be doing

This is a high-impact leadership opportunity at the centre of our finance function responsible for delivering consolidated reporting for the whole of our UK & Ireland operations and providing insightful financial and performance reporting to the Executive Team and Shareholders. As group financial controller you will have responsibility for the financial reporting and control of all entities across the UK and Ireland, maintaining effective systems and processes across multiple subsidiaries, equity stakes and on behalf of both our EDF shareholders and other partners. You’ll lead the central finance team to ensure the integrity of financial data, drive a best-in-class monthly close process, and co-ordinate the financial planning, forecasting, and budgeting activities across the UK & Ireland group. Your work will directly support decision-making and performance improvement across EDF RUK&I. As the key coordinator with Business Partnering Heads of Finance who are aligned to Technology Business Units (Onshore Wind, Offshore Wind, SSPW – Solar, Storage and Private Wire), you will provide secure, efficient core platforms, guarantee data quality and produce insightful financial and performance reporting to support business partnering activities. As a strategic partner, you’ll shape the future of our finance systems and processes, lead our statutory audit and consolidation activities, and deliver accurate, insightful reporting. You’ll also manage our relationship with Finance Shared Services, optimise cashflow with shareholder treasury teams, and guide the design and implementation of key platforms like SAP and Anaplan. This role offers the chance to make a lasting impact, developing scalable, efficient finance operations to support our ambitious growth — all while being part of a dynamic, collaborative leadership team committed to innovation, simplicity, and excellence.

What do you need to be great at this role?

You’ll be an experienced, qualified accountant - ideally ACA with strong expertise in financial consolidation, reporting, analysis, and internal controls. You’ll have deep knowledge of UK GAAP and IFRS, with hands-on experience preparing complex consolidations, statutory accounts and confidently applying accounting standards in practical settings. You will have experience of working in or leading teams across multiple finance disciplines including Financial Control, Consolidation & Technical Accounting, Finance Operations (Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable), Treasury and FP&A. A proven track record in leading FP&A functions within fast-paced, capital-intensive environments is desirable, ideally within the renewables or energy sectors. Your experience with advanced financial systems and tools will enable you to drive process improvements and enhance reporting capabilities. You bring sharp numerical and analytical skills, combined with a proven ability to lead senior teams in a fast-growing, capital-intensive environment—ideally in renewables, energy, or construction. Experience driving transformative accounting system implementations and managing multiple teams to deliver high-quality results on tight deadlines will set you apart. Excellent communication and influencing skills are essential, along with a track record of building and motivating high-performing teams. If you’re ready to lead finance through ambitious growth and complex challenges, this is your chance to make a real impact.

Location: London/North East/Edinburgh

Closing date: 15th July 2025

Why EDF Renewables?

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.