Head of Finance - Civils & MEH
Job Description
Shape Britain’s Energy Future with Sizewell C
Location: London
Contract: Permanent, full-time.
Closing Date: 6th March 2026
Sizewell C is a new nuclear power station being built on the Suffolk coast. Following the recent Final Investment Decision, construction is now fully greenlit, marking a major milestone in delivering the country’s long-term energy security and net-zero goals. As the biggest investment in clean, homegrown energy in decades, Sizewell C will supply low-carbon electricity to around 6 million homes for at least 60 years
What’s in It for You
We are recruiting a Head of Finance – Civils & MEH, a senior strategic position at the heart of the project’s major delivery programmes. This is a rare opportunity to influence how a multi‑billion‑pound infrastructure project is controlled, governed, and delivered, working directly with senior executives, delivery partners, and government stakeholders.
If you thrive in complex environments, enjoy acting as a trusted advisor, and want to make a tangible impact on the UK’s future energy security, we want to hear from you.
About The Role
As Head of Finance – Civils & MEH, you will lead financial governance and strategic financial planning across the project’s Civils and MEH delivery programmes. You will be responsible for ensuring transparency, financial discipline, and value for money within one of the UK’s largest capital programmes.
Acting as a crucial interface between Finance, Operations, the Executive team, and Government partners, this role offers both influence and impact at an organisation‑wide level.
Key Responsibilities
Financial Governance & Oversight
As part of the CFO’s leadership team, you will play a key role in shaping the future of SZC’s Finance function. This includes driving integration across delivery teams, strengthening financial capability, and ensuring SZC meets its financial, regulatory, and strategic commitments.
This is a high‑profile and career‑defining role for a finance leader motivated by scale, complexity, and national significance.
Knowledge, Skills, Qualifications & Experience
Humility
Join the team at Sizewell C. Our vision is to Lead The Way On Nuclear.
The Sizewell C team is one of the most exciting and largest new megaprojects in the UK, whilst being at the forefront of the UK’s climate change agenda and energy policy. We have begun constructing a 3.2-gigawatt nuclear power station on the Suffolk coast in the East of England replicating, wherever possible, the design used for Hinkley Point C, another nuclear power station being built in Somerset.
When built, Sizewell C will be one of the largest power stations to operate in the UK. The power station will generate low carbon electricity for at least 60 years, supplying over 6 million homes and supporting around 7% of the UK’s current electricity needs.
Our vision is to Lead The Way On Nuclear. We want Sizewell C to define what good leadership for the nuclear industry and British infrastructure looks like and deliver on it. We understand the feats of organisation, logistics, collaboration and imagination that building nuclear requires. We are building for the next generation for their home-grown energy, energy price stability and ultra-low carbon power in abundance. We also want to set the benchmark for maximising long-lasting social value as we build and demonstrate how smart collaboration can work for the benefit of communities – locally, regionally and nationally.
We are the first nuclear power station in the UK to be funded under the Regulated Asset Base funding model (RAB). Our largest shareholder is the UK Government, alongside equity partners La Caisse, Centrica, EDF and Amber Infrastructure.
Sizewell C operates within a complex and fast-moving stakeholder environment, engaging with a wide range of partners including government bodies, regulators, local communities, supply chain partners, and international collaborators. This makes Sizewell C a uniquely stimulating place to work — where navigating evolving priorities, balancing interests, and building trusted relationships is just as critical as technical excellence. For those who thrive in dynamic, multi-dimensional settings, it offers unmatched professional challenge and growth.
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.
By submitting an application to this role, you acknowledge that you have read and understood Sizewell C’s employee privacy policy and EDF's employee privacy policy. Just to let you know, EDF will be processing and sharing information about your application on behalf of Sizewell C.
Shape Britain’s Energy Future with Sizewell C
Location: London
Contract: Permanent, full-time.
Closing Date: 6th March 2026
Sizewell C is a new nuclear power station being built on the Suffolk coast. Following the recent Final Investment Decision, construction is now fully greenlit, marking a major milestone in delivering the country’s long-term energy security and net-zero goals. As the biggest investment in clean, homegrown energy in decades, Sizewell C will supply low-carbon electricity to around 6 million homes for at least 60 years
What’s in It for You
- Salary: £130,000 – £150,000 per annum, depending on experience
- Car Allowance: £8,400 per annum
- Bonus: 15% annual incentive
- Pension: Up to 7.5% employee / 15% employer contribution
- Leave: 28 days holiday plus bank holidays
- Hybrid Working: Typically, 3 days in the office per week, with flexibility based on business needs
We are recruiting a Head of Finance – Civils & MEH, a senior strategic position at the heart of the project’s major delivery programmes. This is a rare opportunity to influence how a multi‑billion‑pound infrastructure project is controlled, governed, and delivered, working directly with senior executives, delivery partners, and government stakeholders.
If you thrive in complex environments, enjoy acting as a trusted advisor, and want to make a tangible impact on the UK’s future energy security, we want to hear from you.
About The Role
As Head of Finance – Civils & MEH, you will lead financial governance and strategic financial planning across the project’s Civils and MEH delivery programmes. You will be responsible for ensuring transparency, financial discipline, and value for money within one of the UK’s largest capital programmes.
Acting as a crucial interface between Finance, Operations, the Executive team, and Government partners, this role offers both influence and impact at an organisation‑wide level.
Key Responsibilities
Financial Governance & Oversight
- Lead programme cost control, cash flow management, and financial reporting.
- Ensure expenditure aligns with budgets, funding obligations, and HMG requirements.
- Deliver high-quality analysis of cost performance, risks, and forecasts.
- Drive financial discipline and ensure timely escalation of issues to senior leadership.
- Develop business cases and commercial proposals.
- Support long-term financial planning and ensure value for money across delivery programmes.
- Act as the senior financial interface for Civils and MEH delivery partners.
- Ensure seamless and transparent information flows across all stakeholder groups.
- Advise, challenge, and upskill operational leaders to improve financial capability.
- Embed a culture of accountability and support the modernisation of the Finance function.
- Oversee financial reporting, contract governance, and alignment to programme milestones.
- Ensure forecasts and budgets align with investor requirements and project schedule.
As part of the CFO’s leadership team, you will play a key role in shaping the future of SZC’s Finance function. This includes driving integration across delivery teams, strengthening financial capability, and ensuring SZC meets its financial, regulatory, and strategic commitments.
This is a high‑profile and career‑defining role for a finance leader motivated by scale, complexity, and national significance.
Knowledge, Skills, Qualifications & Experience
- Exceptional stakeholder management, with a proven ability to build strong relationships across internal teams, delivery partners, and external stakeholders to remain fully aligned with organisational, industry, and financial developments.
- Outstanding influencing, negotiation, communication, and presentation skills, with the ability to distil complex financial information for senior and non‑financial audiences.
- Expert business partnering capability, demonstrating a customer‑focused, proactive, and action‑oriented approach to supporting delivery teams and executive stakeholders.
- Advanced strategic problem‑solving skills, with the ability to evaluate complex issues, identify risks and opportunities, and recommend decisive courses of action.
- Strong commercial acumen, with experience managing business performance and driving financial outcomes within large‑scale, complex environments.
- Excellent prioritisation and organisational skills, with the ability to balance competing demands across multiple programmes and teams.
- Highly analytical mindset, able to interpret data, challenge assumptions, and drive improvements in financial and operational performance.
- Up‑to‑date industry and sector knowledge, including awareness of external factors, regulatory change, finance sector trends, and emerging technologies that influence business performance.
- Adaptability and resilience, with the ability to respond effectively to changing market, regulatory, or programme conditions.
- Strong technology awareness, with the capability to leverage digital tools, data, and systems to improve decision‑making and financial insight.
- Broad understanding of end‑to‑end financial processes, ensuring effective governance, forecasting, reporting, and performance tracking.
- Sound judgement and decision‑making, considering a full range of factors, balancing competing viewpoints, and constructively challenging plans, performance, and assumptions.
- Qualified accountant with recognised Accounting Professional Organisation or equivalent (e.g. ACCA, ICAEW, ICAS, CIMA).
- Strong leadership experience within a large/complex organisation
- Excellent experience of managing internal and external relationships, providing both support and challenge to business performance.
- Experience of Major programmes
- Experience of regulated industry (desired)
Humility
- Recognises the value brought from different cultures and experiences.
- Open to other’s points of view and ideas, willing to debate and to compromise.
- Positively challenges poor quality and performance.
- Identifies solutions at the lowest possible level.
- Encourages tier 1s and others to bring new ideas forward.
- Values the rules and environment in which we operate.
- Gives and receives feedback with respect.
- Embraces and engages with new people and ideas.
- Operates as ‘One team’, working closely together and helping each other.
- Empowers team – empowered teams always looking forward.
- Shares responsibility for delivering the project outcomes.
- Communicates clearly and consistently.
- Promotes collaboration and team alignment.
- Clear and fast decision making.
- Drives simplification at all levels.
Join the team at Sizewell C. Our vision is to Lead The Way On Nuclear.
The Sizewell C team is one of the most exciting and largest new megaprojects in the UK, whilst being at the forefront of the UK’s climate change agenda and energy policy. We have begun constructing a 3.2-gigawatt nuclear power station on the Suffolk coast in the East of England replicating, wherever possible, the design used for Hinkley Point C, another nuclear power station being built in Somerset.
When built, Sizewell C will be one of the largest power stations to operate in the UK. The power station will generate low carbon electricity for at least 60 years, supplying over 6 million homes and supporting around 7% of the UK’s current electricity needs.
Our vision is to Lead The Way On Nuclear. We want Sizewell C to define what good leadership for the nuclear industry and British infrastructure looks like and deliver on it. We understand the feats of organisation, logistics, collaboration and imagination that building nuclear requires. We are building for the next generation for their home-grown energy, energy price stability and ultra-low carbon power in abundance. We also want to set the benchmark for maximising long-lasting social value as we build and demonstrate how smart collaboration can work for the benefit of communities – locally, regionally and nationally.
We are the first nuclear power station in the UK to be funded under the Regulated Asset Base funding model (RAB). Our largest shareholder is the UK Government, alongside equity partners La Caisse, Centrica, EDF and Amber Infrastructure.
Sizewell C operates within a complex and fast-moving stakeholder environment, engaging with a wide range of partners including government bodies, regulators, local communities, supply chain partners, and international collaborators. This makes Sizewell C a uniquely stimulating place to work — where navigating evolving priorities, balancing interests, and building trusted relationships is just as critical as technical excellence. For those who thrive in dynamic, multi-dimensional settings, it offers unmatched professional challenge and growth.
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.
By submitting an application to this role, you acknowledge that you have read and understood Sizewell C’s employee privacy policy and EDF's employee privacy policy. Just to let you know, EDF will be processing and sharing information about your application on behalf of Sizewell C.