Finance Manager - Technology

Tesco Hungary; Welwyn Garden City; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Join Tesco as a Finance Manager within the Technology Finance team, where you'll leverage financial insights to optimize technology investments. This role demands strong analytical skills and experience in project-based finance, engaging with senior stakeholders to drive value across multiple initiatives. With the balance of office and remote work, Tesco champions flexible working culture and inclusivity in its hiring practices.

Qualifications

• Qualified ACCA, ACA, or CIMA required.
• Strong data interpretation and financial analysis skills.
• Experience with Capex analysis and project-based assessments is crucial.

Responsibilities

• Drive financial insights and value creation for the Technology leadership team.
• Oversee financial management of a broad portfolio of technology investments.
• Collaborate with FP&A to deliver insightful Management Accounts.

Skills

Data interpretation

Financial analysis

Communication

Project assessment

Education

ACCA

ACA

CIMA

Job description

We have an exciting opportunity for a Finance Manager to join the Technology Finance team here at Tesco. In this role, you will act as a key Business Partner to the Technology leadership team, supporting the Group’s Technology function to optimise investments. You will engage with various teams across the business, working at the core of new propositions within the Tesco Group.

Your main responsibility will be to ensure a robust understanding of the financial implications of activities being delivered and their impact on the Group’s overall performance, particularly in an environment where scale and resilience are crucial.

This broad-ranging finance role is ideal for a proactive finance professional who excels at interacting with and influencing senior stakeholders, and who has experience driving change.

• Collaborate with the Technology Leadership team and FP&A to drive value through an integrated strategic and annual planning process. Support prioritization reviews, bottom-up planning, key assumptions, and alignment of capital and operational spending.
• Serve as a financial advisor to technology leaders, providing insights on how technology can drive business value.
• Continuously evaluate the financial management of technology across the business to ensure best-in-class practices, considering the pace of technological change. This includes evaluating, challenging, and reporting on the overall value creation of the technology portfolio.
• Communicate financial insights and technology investment outcomes to senior executives within both Finance and Technology.
• Oversee the financial management of a broad portfolio of investments, which includes numerous individual projects spanning multiple delivery programs and priorities. Lead the management of key metrics, including capitalization rates and resource allocation between projects and operations/support through a balanced portfolio.
• Review and challenge business cases for technology investments, ensuring that incremental technology spend intended to generate savings elsewhere in the business is appropriately identified and justified.
• Work closely with the Control and FP&A teams to deliver insightful Management Accounts and Director Packs, ensuring good control of business areas with a detailed understanding of risks and opportunities.
• Provide ad-hoc financial modelling and analysis to support innovation and business decision-making. Collaborate with Control & FP&A to facilitate the Technology Approvals Group in managing Capital and Operational investments across the Group and the UK, and work with the Investment Committee to ensure streamlined processes.
• Identify and implement efficiency savings across the cost base, while promoting a culture of cost consciousness.
• Drive process improvements and simplify the finance operating model, working with finance teams across the end-to-end capital lifecycle.

• ACCA, ACA, CIMA qualified (or equivalent)
• Strong data interpretation and analysis skills
• Experience with Capex analysis and project-based financial assessments
• Ability to drive the finance agenda and work effectively with senior colleagues
• Ability to communicate complex financial data and analysis in a clear, concise and persuasive manner to both financial and non-financial audiences.
• Understanding of Technology function is an advantage

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