Finance Business Partner - Telecoms

What’s in it for you

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• Annual bonus scheme of up to 20% of base salary
• Holiday starting at 25 days plus a personal day (plus Bank holidays)
• Private medical insurance
• 26 weeks maternity and adoption leave (after 1 years’ service) at full pay, followed by 13 weeks of Statutory Maternity Pay or Statutory Adoption Pay, we also offer 6 weeks fully paid paternity leave
• Free 24/7 virtual GP service, Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) for you and your family, free access to a range of experts to support your mental wellbeing

About the role

At Tesco, we believe in the power of spending more time together, face to face, than apart. So, during your working week, you can expect to spend 60% of your time in one of our office locations or local sites and the rest remotely. We also recognise that life looks a little different for each of us. Some people are at the start of their careers, some want the freedom to do the things they love. Others are going through life-changing moments like becoming a carer, nearing retirement, adapting to parenthood, or something else. That’s why at Tesco, we always welcome a conversation about flexible working. So, talk to us throughout your application about how we can support.

In this role, you will be the lead finance contact for the Telecoms leadership team working closely with the MD and Directors for Telecoms - being the key finance interface with Tesco Mobile Joint Venture, partnering the business on strategic projects across Telecoms, key contact working closely with the Tesco Mobile finance team, as well as overseeing an end to end P&L for the Telecoms UK business.

You will be responsible for

You will be reporting into the Head of Finance – Customer & Telecoms and will work alongside the Telecoms Leadership team, Operations Team and Tesco Mobile finance team.

Key responsibilities will include:

• Business partner the Group Telecoms director on a range of projects related to the JV relationship between Tesco and VMO2 and shareholder signoffs / annual PLC updates.
• Lead the monthly Telecoms Exec sessions, setting clear agenda with the Group Telecoms director and holding project owners to account to present updates in timely fashion to provide progress or request sign offs for new or existing projects.
• Overseeing and reviewing the workload of 2 colleagues in TBS.
• Work closely with the International TM businesses (ROI, CZ & SK) to pull together quarterly dashboard of Group Telecoms performance for Telecoms Leadership team.
• Lead on Capital approval papers, including scoping the level of trial analysis and frequency with the TBS team.
• Work alongside Business leads on Store of the Future - New Tesco mobile store proposition - across the estate covering IC papers and performance reporting.
• Be the UK lead standing over FP&A for Telecoms (period reviews, budget and LTP), reviewing the outputs for P&L, working capital, capex, payment terms and cashflow submissions prepared by the TBS team.
• Work closely with the Tesco Mobile finance team to understand performance drivers and obtain analysis to understand shareholder return movements.
• Prepare and present the finance pack to Telecoms Exec, including the Tesco Mobile & Telecoms CEO, on a periodic basis.

You will need

• Qualified Accountant ACA/ACCA/CIMA (preferred)
• Experience of engaging and working with senior business stakeholders
• Evolved financial analysis skills
• Ability to interpret data & derive analysis from scratch
• Commercial awareness & business acumen
• Strong Influencing skills
• Resilience & willingness to challenge the status quo

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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.

Diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I) at Tesco means that whoever you are and whatever your background, we always want you to feel represented and that you can be yourself at work. In short, we’re a place where Everyone’s Welcome. We’re proud to have been accredited Disability Confident Leader and we’re committed to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process. For further information on the accessibility support we can offer, please click here.

We’re a big business and we can offer a range of diverse full-time & part-time working patterns across our many business areas, which means that we can find something that works for you.  We work in a more blended pattern -combining office and remote working.  Our offices will continue to be where we connect, collaborate and innovate.