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Finance Business Partner – Customer - 12 Month FTC
Job Reference tesco/TP/10823140/729491
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What’s in it for you
We offer excellent benefits that help make Tesco a great place to work! These include but aren’t limited to:
- Annual bonus scheme
- Holiday starting at 25 days plus a personal day (plus 8 Bank holidays)
- Retirement savings plan - save between 4% and 7.5% and Tesco will match your contribution
- Life Assurance - 5 x contractual pay
- Great colleague deals and discounts, saving you money on everyday purchases, eating out and utility bills for the home
- Opportunities to get on - take advantage of our ongoing learning opportunities and award-winning training, to help you achieve the job and career you want
Click here to read more about the benefits we have available for our colleagues
About the role
Working as part of the broader Customer Finance team you will act as the key advisor for the Execution leadership team. You will help define financial and non-financial objectives for the function, and help the teams achieve these targets by monitoring progress and provide detailed sound commercial advice to optimise spend.
You will also be the person coordinating the financial relationship with Dunnhumby, our market leading partner in data analytics. You will help them improve income potential from our estate and data to ensure the greatest return on investment via creation of effective governance processes.
You will be responsible for
The Customer is central to every decision in Tesco, this role will give exposure to what matters to shoppers at Tesco. You’ll be reporting into the Head of Finance – Customer and will work alongside both the Clubcard Finance Business Partner and FP&A/Control teams. Key responsibilities will include:
- Supporting the Execution leadership team to track and optimise Execution (marketing communications) spend
- Understanding the financial returns of all communication spend including Online & F&F
- Coordinating the finance relationship with dunnhumby and improving value to Tesco by:
- Maximising income from sale of owned Media within Brand guidelines, working closely with dunnhumby
- Controlling & prioritising how and on what dunnhumby resource is deployed
- Ensuring that all spend is prioritised based on brand objectives and returns
- Developing econometric modelling with Mediacom & Insight teams to optimise Tesco media spend
- Reviewing and challenging Production spend to ensure it is efficient
- Responsible for forecasting and managing project results within your given area
- Identifying, validating and delivering efficiency savings with the Customer procurement team
- Supporting Customer teams with projects and initiatives, including IC business cases and performance reviews
- Identifying and pro-actively highlighting risks and work to mitigate issues
- Following our Business Code of Conduct and always acting with integrity and due diligence
You will need
We are looking for a qualified accountant (ACA/ACCA/CIMA or equivalent) with experience of engaging and working with senior business partners.
You will require financial analysis skills, the ability to interpret data & derive analysis from scratch and strong commercial awareness and an eye for business. You will also need strong influencing skills and the resilience & willingness to challenge the status quo.
About us
Our vision at Tesco is to become every customer's favourite way to shop, whether they are at home or out on the move. Our core purpose is ‘Serving our customers, communities and planet a little better every day’. Serving means more than a transactional relationship with our customers. It means acting as a responsible and sustainable business for all stakeholders, for the communities we are part of and for the planet.
We are proud to have an inclusive culture at Tesco where everyone truly feels able to be themselves. At Tesco, we not only celebrate diversity, but recognise the value and opportunity it brings. We're committed to creating a workplace where differences are valued, and make sure that all colleagues are given the same opportunities. We're a big business with diverse working patterns and many business areas which means that we can find something that works for you. Everyone is welcome at Tesco.
We have recently announced that we will be moving towards a more blended working week – combining office and remote working. Our offices will continue to be where we connect, collaborate and innovate. Please talk to us to about how this can work for you.
NOTE: Should you be successful in your application, your offer will be subject to and conditional upon you providing your bank account details on your agreed start date.