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Finance Manager - Distribution

Job Reference tesco/TP/11868706/798718

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Number of Positions:
1
Contract Type:
Fixed Term
Contract Details:
12 months
Salary:
Competitive
Working Hours:
36
Location:
Regional
Closing Date:
03/04/2023
Job Category:
Finance
Business Unit:
GB Head Office

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

We have an excellent opportunity to join the fast-paced Distribution team. With inflationary pressures and ambitious plans, this role will partner the 4 Distribution Centre Managers to support in-year operations, and longer-term strategic direction through supporting future growth. You will partner with the distribution teams to provide financial stewardship, ensuring we deliver budgets and forecasts through effective business partnering, to develop and support the day-to-day performance, and longer-term improvement plans.

At a higher level there will be interactions with the Warehouse Director to provide insight and to enable the right decisions are made.

This is a regional role and can be based in Welwyn, Reading, Thurrock or Daventry.

You will be responsible for

  • Partnering the Distribution Centre Managers
  • Leading the budgeting, forecasting and analytical processes, ensuring integrity across areas and providing in depth knowledge of performance to senior colleagues, presenting at weekly and periodic finance reviews
  • Building a positive relationship with the Bengaluru team that fosters collaboration and knowledge sharing to drive continuous improvement and simplification in reporting.
  • Supporting the business teams, providing financial expertise for end-to-end business plans including investment committee papers and S2I (Save to Invest)

You will need

  • Ability to proactively engage and challenge both finance and non-finance senior colleagues
  • Excellent analytical and strategic skills and ability to understand both detail and bigger picture
  • Ability to demonstrate peer to peer leadership, both build relations and provide a level of challenge to drive the best outcomes for the business
  • Experienced in change management

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.