Business Partnering & Commercial Finance Manager, Broadband

BT Group; Birmingham; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Business Partnering & Commercial Finance Manager to drive commercial reporting and analysis for Broadband. This pivotal role involves influencing financial performance and collaborating with various teams to ensure robust tracking and alignment with financial targets. With the flexibility of hybrid working, you will play a key role in shaping commercial outcomes and guiding decision-making processes. Join a forward-thinking company committed to diversity and inclusion, where you can make a significant impact on the digital transformation of lives and businesses.

Benefits

10% on target bonus

Equal family leave

Enhanced women’s health support

25 days annual leave

24/7 private virtual GP appointments

2 weeks carer’s leave

World-class training and development opportunities

Option to join BT Shares Saving schemes

Qualifications

• Qualified Accountant with strong data and business partnering skills.
• Excellent communication and finance knowledge required.

Responsibilities

• Lead commercial reporting and analysis for Broadband.
• Support financial performance targets and risk management.

Skills

Qualified Accountant (ACA/ACCA/CIMA or equivalent)

Data skills

Business partnering skills

Coordination and alignment

Commercial acumen

Communication skills

Finance knowledge

Job description

Business Partnering & Commercial Finance Manager, Broadband

Posting Date: 14 Feb 2025

Function: Finance

Unit: Consumer

Location: Snowhill, Birmingham, United Kingdom

Business Partnering & Commercial Finance Manager, Broadband

If so, you could be a great fit for our Business Partnering & Commercial Finance Manager, Broadband. This role offers two days working from home and three days per week from our landmark offices in either Birmingham, Sheffield, Bristol, or London.

This is a key role within the Commercial Finance team for EE. You will be expected to take the lead from a finance perspective on commercial reporting and base management, articulating the key drivers in an insight-driven manner to guide decision-making. You will influence and shape commercial outcomes to ensure the business hits its financial performance targets. This role will support the Head of Broadband Trading Finance with exposure to the Director community.

You will lead on commercial reporting and analysis of Broadband, including inflows, outflows, and re-contracts, provide business partnering support for the Commercial Trading & Planning teams, and take ownership of the quarterly outlooks, rolling forecasts, and longer-term base management.

What you’ll be doing

• Lead the commercial reporting process for Broadband and act as the point of contact for articulating commercial performance drivers.
• Finance interface with the Commercial team, influencing future trading direction.
• Ownership of robust performance tracking, ensuring performance is correctly measured and aligned with the P&L outcome.
• Align robust, interlocked financial targets to underpin budget and rolling forecast processes.
• Develop and take ownership of base planning models to highlight longer-term trends across all Consumer brands.
• Identify, quantify, and mitigate risks that may arise from both internal and external factors.
• Conduct ad hoc commercial analysis and impact assessments of market impacts and commercial decisions.
• Think “outside the box” and consider multiple perspectives to identify clear commercial, cash flow, and cost opportunities.

Skills Required

• Qualified Accountant (ACA/ACCA/CIMA or equivalent).
• Data skills – Enhance value reporting across functions and manage complex, large data sets.
• Business partnering skills – Quickly establish credibility and respect, build strong working relationships, influence and coach others.
• Coordination and alignment – Coordinate and align plans across multiple stakeholders.
• Commercial acumen – Quickly understand new ideas and their financial impact on the business.
• Communication skills – Translate complex financial outcomes to senior financial and non-financial stakeholders.
• Finance knowledge – Possess excellent knowledge of finance and best practices.

Benefits

• 10% on target bonus.
• From January 2025, equal family leave: receive 18 weeks at full pay, 8 weeks at half pay, and 26 weeks at the statutory rate.
• Enhanced women’s health support.
• 25 days annual leave (not including bank holidays), increasing with service.
• 24/7 private virtual GP appointments for UK colleagues.
• 2 weeks carer’s leave.
• World-class training and development opportunities.
• Option to join BT Shares Saving schemes.

About us

BT is part of BT Group, along with EE, Openreach, and Plusnet. Millions of people rely on us every day to help them live their lives, power their businesses, and keep their public services running.

We value diversity and celebrate difference. We embed diversity and inclusion into everything that we do. It’s fundamental to our purpose: we connect for good.

This is your chance to make a real difference to the world: to be part of the digital transformation of countless lives and businesses. Grab it.