Business Partnering & Commercial Finance Manager, Broadband

BT Group; Birmingham; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as a Business Partnering & Commercial Finance Manager, where you will play a pivotal role in driving financial performance within the Broadband sector. This dynamic position involves leading commercial reporting, analyzing key performance drivers, and collaborating with various teams to shape strategic decisions. You will have the opportunity to influence outcomes, mitigate risks, and contribute to the overall success of the organization. With a commitment to diversity and inclusion, this role offers a supportive environment where your insights can make a real difference. Embrace the chance to be part of a digital transformation that connects lives and businesses for the better.

Benefits

10% on target bonus

18 weeks full pay 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.
• Influence trading direction and ensure performance tracking.

Skills

Qualified Accountant (ACA/ACCA/CIMA or equivalent)

Data skills

Business partnering skills

Coordination and alignment

Commercial acumen

Communication skills

Finance knowledge

Education

Qualified Accountant

Job description

Business Partnering & Commercial Finance Manager, Broadband

Posting Date: 14 Feb 2025

Function: Finance

Unit: Consumer

Location: Snowhill, Birmingham, United Kingdom

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

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

Skills Required

1. Qualified Accountant (ACA/ACCA/CIMA or equivalent).
2. Data skills – Enhance value reporting across functions and manage complex, large data sets.
3. Business partnering skills – Quickly establish credibility and respect, build strong working relationships, influence and coach others, and be prepared to challenge.
4. Coordination and alignment – Coordinate and align plans across multiple stakeholders, processes, and decision-making forums.
5. Commercial acumen – Quickly understand new ideas and their financial impact on the business, and provide suggestions for improvement.
6. Communication skills – Translate complex financial outcomes to senior financial and non-financial stakeholders.
7. Finance knowledge – Possess excellent knowledge of finance, covering a wide range of activities and best practices.

Benefits

1. 10% on target bonus
2. From January 2025, equal family leave: receive 18 weeks at full pay, 8 weeks at half pay and 26 weeks at the statutory rate.
3. Enhanced women’s health support.
4. 25 days annual leave (not including bank holidays), increasing with service.
5. 24/7 private virtual GP appointments for UK colleagues.
6. 2 weeks carer’s leave.
7. World-class training and development opportunities.
8. Option to join BT Shares Saving schemes.

About us

BT is part of BT Group, along with EE, Openreach, and Plusnet. 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.

We all stick to the same values: Personal, Simple, and Brilliant. This is your chance to make a real difference to the world: to be part of the digital transformation of countless lives and businesses.

Although these roles are listed as full-time, if you’re a job share partnership, work reduced hours, or any other way of working flexibly, please still get in touch.

We will also offer reasonable adjustments for the selection process if required, so please do not hesitate to inform us.

Studies have shown that women and people who are disabled, LGBTQ+, neurodiverse or from ethnic minority backgrounds are less likely to apply for jobs unless they meet every single qualification and criteria. We're committed to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace where everyone can be their best, so if you're excited about this role but your past experience doesn't align perfectly with every requirement on the Job Description, please apply anyway.