BWS Finance Lead

About the Role

Join a team where your leadership can shape the future of a major commercial business. At EDF, Success is Personal. As our BWS Finance Lead, you'll influence strategic decisions, drive financial performance, and lead a high-performing team that creates lasting value across a fast-moving and evolving energy market.

As BWS Finance Lead, you'll be a trusted partner to senior business leaders, shaping commercial strategy and influencing decisions that impact revenue, profitability, cash performance, and long-term growth. You'll lead a team of finance professionals while providing insight and challenge that helps the business perform at its best.

Alongside a competitive salary and potential for an annual bonus, this role offers flexibility in location, with travel to our London office at Nova North, Victoria required. You'll also benefit from healthcare for you and your family, while enjoying the flexibility to balance your work and personal commitments.

Working within our Business and Wholesale Services Finance team, you'll help support EDF's journey towards An Electric Britain. From leading the four-year financial plan to driving finance transformation through automation, robotics and AI, you'll have the opportunity to influence business outcomes, develop people, and help shape the future of finance across EDF.

We're looking for an experienced BWS Finance Lead who combines commercial insight with senior finance leadership experience in a complex environment. You'll be comfortable influencing executive stakeholders, leading strategic change, and translating complex financial information into meaningful business decisions. Are you experienced in?

• Leading a Finance Business Partnering function within a complex commercial organisation
• Operating as a fully qualified accountant with significant post-qualification experience at senior leadership level
• Influencing senior stakeholders to support commercial and strategic decision‑making
• Leading and developing high‑performing finance teams, including senior managers
• Delivering financial planning, forecasting, reporting, and performance management across large‑scale business operations
• Driving finance transformation initiatives involving automation, robotics, and AI
• Managing multiple and diverse stakeholder requirements within fast‑paced environments
• Interpreting market dynamics and complex industry developments to assess financial impact

• Leading Finance Business Partnering activity for the Business and Wholesale Services business unit
• Owning gross margin, operating expenditure, forecasting, reporting, and financial performance insight
• Partnering with senior leaders to shape strategy, optimise performance, and drive value creation
• Leading the development and delivery of medium‑term financial plans and transformation initiatives
• Building and developing a high‑performing finance team while embedding a culture of continuous improvement

Alongside a competitive salary and potential for an annual bonus, and a market‑leading pension scheme, your package will include customisable benefits such as electric vehicle leasing, discounted gym membership, life assurance, tech vouchers, experience days, and more.

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.