Finance Director

Director of Finance

Location: London / Hybrid (with travel to Suffolk as required)

Salary: c£160k depending on experience.  

Benefits:

Car Allowance - £10,200

Bonus target – 26%

Private medical cover – family

Contributory Pension – up to 7.5% employee/15% employer

28 days holiday plus bank holiday

Shape the financial future of one of the UK's largest infrastructure programmes.

Sizewell C is one of the most significant clean energy projects in Europe. Once operational, it will provide low-carbon electricity to millions of homes, strengthen the UK's energy security and create a lasting national legacy.

Following Financial Close, Sizewell C has entered a new phase. Backed by HM Government alongside major institutional investors and industry partners, we are delivering a £38 billion programme under an innovative Regulated Asset Base (RAB) funding model. The financing structure, was put in place with the intention that it would facilitate a change in the way nuclear power could be delivered, with more robust financial management.

We are now seeking an exceptional Director of Finance to join our Finance leadership team.

Reporting directly to the Chief Financial Officer, this is a career-defining opportunity to lead the finance function at the heart of one of the UK's most complex and high-profile infrastructure programmes.

The Opportunity

This is far more than a traditional finance leadership role.

You will lead an integrated finance organisation encompassing:

• Financial Control & Reporting
• Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A)
• Finance Business Partnering
• Delivery-facing Finance
• Finance Operations

You will ensure the business has a single, trusted source of financial truth, providing the governance, insight and commercial challenge required to support confident decision-making across every part of the programme.

Your leadership will help ensure Sizewell C remains deliverable, affordable and fundable throughout construction, while maintaining the highest standards of financial stewardship, governance and investor confidence.

What you'll be responsible for

As Director of Finance, you will:

• Lead and continually develop an integrated finance operating model across Financial Control, FP&A and Finance Business Partnering.
• Own consolidated financial reporting, forecasting, planning and performance insight for the Executive, Board and shareholders.
• Provide strategic financial leadership across the £38 billion construction programme, ensuring robust forecasting, cost control and value-for-money decision making.

• Build and lead a high-performing Finance Business Partnering function that is embedded in decision making across programme delivery and corporate functions provides insight and challenge, and translates the implications of Sizewell C's financing structure into practical guidance for delivery teams

• Drive financial governance, internal controls, audit readiness and continuous improvement.
• Partner closely with Delivery, Commercial, PMO, Treasury and Executive leaders to ensure financial decisions reflect programme performance, risk and affordability.
• Support investor, lender, regulatory and Board reporting within a highly scrutinised funding environment.
• Lead finance transformation through improved systems, data, automation and digital capability.
• Develop and inspire an exceptional finance leadership team while fostering a culture of accountability, collaboration and continuous improvement.

About You

We're looking for an accomplished senior finance leader who combines strategic thinking with operational excellence.

You'll bring:

• Significant experience leading finance functions within large, complex organisations.
• A strong track record across financial control, reporting, planning, forecasting and finance business partnering.
• Experience operating confidently at Executive and Board level, influencing senior stakeholders and driving strategic decision-making.
• Proven success building high-performing finance teams and embedding finance within operational or programme environments.
• Deep understanding of governance, internal controls, audit and financial reporting under IFRS.
• Outstanding analytical, commercial and leadership capability, with the ability to translate complexity into clear, actionable insight.

Experience within major infrastructure, regulated industries, energy, utilities, government-backed programmes or investor-led environments would be advantageous, as would knowledge of complex funding structures such as the Regulated Asset Base (RAB) model.

Why Sizewell C?

This is a rare opportunity to influence one of the UK's most nationally significant infrastructure projects at a pivotal point in its delivery.

You'll work alongside outstanding leaders, engage with Government, investors and regulators, and play a critical role in delivering a project that will support the UK's energy future for generations.

If you're looking for a role where your leadership will genuinely shape the success of a nationally important programme, we'd love to hear from you.

When joining Sizewell C, you may wonder why you are contacted by colleagues with an EDF email or see the EDF logo on portals that you access and/or documentation you receive; this is because we have partnered with EDF for the provision of a number of support services whilst we complete a successful transition out of the EDF group. 

At Sizewell C we encourage and embrace diversity and how it can improve our experience and performance at work. It is a requirement that those who join us have the right to work in the UK. Whilst sponsorship may be a possibility that we can explore, we are fully committed to local recruitment where possible, and those already holding the right to work in the UK.   

To be appointed to this role, you will need to meet the criteria for Security Vetting, which will, ordinarily, require you to have been a resident of the UK for at least three of the past five years