Senior Technical Accountant

Join our Technical Accounting team where you’ll gain exposure across our key business units and main accounting topics in the energy business, allowing you to develop your expertise, network, and career. Gaining a breadth of knowledge from working with auditors, the technical accounting team in Paris and the Business Units team across various activities, Nuclear production, Nuclear development projects, and Customers supply.

The Opportunity

You will work as part of our wider Corporate Finance team which provides financial controls, consolidation of actuals and planning information and support to the business units. The Technical Accounting team is a team of 4 people providing guidance and leadership for complex technical accounting issues. The team is delivering financial statements consistent with IFRS and EDF Group’s accounting policies and contributes to deliver training and guidance to the business units. You’ll report to the technical accounting manager and will work directly with the business units and our outsourcing team for the statutory financial statements’ preparation.

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.

Your rewards package includes a choice of benefits, such as electric vehicle leasing, enhanced parental leave, health insurance, discounts, and employee pricing.

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. The Technical Accounting team travel to our London office once a week for meetings.

Joshua Oriwoh, Senior Technical Accountant, says “My job involves interaction with various teams within EDF which I really enjoy. It helps me understand and appreciate the entire business. Considering my background in Consulting, I would say my current role grants me the required work life balance to help me navigate the current socio-economic climate. My team has been very supportive and encourages open two-way communication. I have had the opportunity to learn more about the energy sector and continuously improve on my knowledge of accounting standards due to intriguing technical accounting questions from the various business units. I wouldn’t have it any other way, I am glad I joined EDF.”

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

Technical Accounting

• Lead on complex technical accounting research to assess the implication of proposed transactions.
• Supporting the discussion with the business units to ascertain implication of proposed accounting treatments.
• Prepare accounting papers as required.
• Co-ordinate the annual technical accounting training programme delivered to UK finance teams.

Statutory reporting

• Responsible for the statutory accounts’ preparation under FRS 101 for companies with various principal activities, ensuring alignment to financial and legal reporting requirements.
• Contributing to the production of UK Group IFRS consolidated accounts.
• Co-ordinate with internal stakeholders and liaise with external auditors for review and smooth audit process and to ensure timely filing of accounts.
• Collaborating with various contributors such as legal, tax and sustainable developments teams, but also business units finance teams and oversee outsourcing team’s work.
• Delivering around 25 sets of financial statements with various difficulty and challenges.

Who you are

To be successful in this role, you will be a qualified accountant with considerable previous experience of researching and understanding IFRS and are highly motivated to engage on IFRS application to industry transactions. You’ll be collaborative, adaptable, entrepreneurial, accountable, innovative, and decisive.

You will be able to work independently and identify key issues with the ability to seek out necessary resources. You demonstrate drive and commitment towards achieving targets and good project management. Good attention to detail and monitors own performance against expected results/outcomes.

You commit to challenging the way things are done to provide continuous improvement and development of skills and knowledge. You have strong, numerical, and analytical ability and act with complete integrity and confidentiality.

You commit to health, safety, wellbeing, and the environment, and carry out your role in a manner that enables us to be a sustainable business – financially, environmentally, and socially.

Closing date for applications: Wednesday 30th August

Join us and together we can help Britain achieve Net Zero