People & Culture Business Partner - Finance

Job Req ID: 61316

Posting Date: 12th August 2026

Function: HR

Location: London, Bristol or Birmingham

About the role

We're looking for a People & Culture Partner to join our Corporate Units Finance team at BT Group during an exciting period of transformation. With Patricia Cobian joining as our new Group CFO and a continued focus on evolving how Finance supports the business, this is a fantastic opportunity to play a key role in shaping the future of the function.

Reporting to the Senior People & Culture Partner, you'll work closely with senior Finance leaders across BT to develop and deliver people strategies that drive business performance, organisational effectiveness and future capability. You'll partner with Finance Directors and their teams as they continue to evolve the Finance Operating Model, lead transformation, build engagement and develop the skills needed for future success.

This is a role with genuine influence and visibility. You'll use people insights, data and sound judgement to support business leaders in making informed decisions, navigating change and creating an environment where people can thrive. Working alongside specialist People & Culture teams, you'll help turn strategic priorities into practical solutions that deliver meaningful business impact.

We're looking for someone who builds strong relationships, is confident challenging constructively, and brings energy, curiosity and commercial thinking to their work. If you're passionate about helping leaders and teams succeed, enjoy working in a fast-paced environment and want to make a real difference in one of BT's most important functions, we'd love to hear from you.

What you’ll be doing

•Use workforce planning to ensure Finance has the right skills, in the right place, at the right time to Partner with Finance leaders to shape and deliver strategic workforce planning, anticipating future workforce needs and ensuring the skills, capabilities and talent pipelines are in place to support long-term business success.
•Work with senior leaders on organisational design projects that simplify structures, roles and ways of working.
•Help leaders respond to changing business needs by developing clear, practical people plans.
•Collaborate to build and deliver plans that support BT's HR strategy, policies and priorities.
•Support Finance-specific talent, development and mobility programmes.
•Contribute to the development of the Finance Operating Model, including workforce size, shape and future capability requirements.
•Work with the Senior HR Business Partner to shape Finance skills and capability plans for the short and long term.
•Collaborate with senior leaders to create engagement plans that meet the needs of each business area.
•Use people data and insights to identify risks, support decision-making and recommend practical solutions.
•Deliver people activities across workforce planning, performance, engagement, organisational design, talent management, leadership development and employee relations.

Essential Skills / Experience

•Experience working with Finance teams or in a commercial business area.
•Experience partnering with senior leaders to shape and deliver people plans.
•Able to support business change and improve ways of working.

Desirable Skills / Experience

•Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to build trusted relationships and work effectively across different teams.
•Good understanding of people strategy, talent management, performance, employee relations and organisational design.
•Able to use people data and insights to identify issues, support decision-making and recommend practical actions.
•Experience supporting workforce planning and future skills or capability initiatives.
•Strong communication skills, with the ability to explain complex topics in a simple and accessible way.
•Commercial awareness and an understanding of how people decisions support business performance.
•Experience supporting reward, compensation or workforce budgeting activities.
•Experience using dashboards and data visualisation tools to communicate clear people insights.
•Experience supporting operating model and organisational design initiatives within a changing business environment.

Our Package

Tailored benefits make a real difference. That’s why we offer a comprehensive range to support your growth, wellbeing, and everyday life. You can design the package to suit you and your lifestyle. Your core benefits include:

• 10% on target annual bonus
• Access to an online private GP 24/7 for you and your immediate family
• Market-leading paid carers leave with up to 2 weeks off
• Equalised maternity, paternity, and adoption leave – 18 weeks’ full pay and 8 weeks’ half pay
• Discounted EE and BT products, including mobile and broadband
• Market leading Pension scheme – 5% from you and 10% from us
• Holiday purchase scheme

You can select additional benefits, including healthcare, dental, gym memberships and more when you’re ready

BT Group is the UK’s leading communications group and the holding company behind some of the country’s most recognised brands – including BT, EE, Openreach and Plusnet. Our purpose is as simple as it is ambitious: we connect for good. Our customers include consumers, small, medium and large businesses, public sector organisations and other communications providers.

BT Group’s role is about setting direction, unlocking value and creating the conditions for our brands and businesses to thrive.

Having come through the most capital-intensive phase of our fibre investment, our focus now is on what comes next – simplifying how we operate, using technology and AI to work smarter, and organising ourselves to serve customers better and grow sustainably. Group teams shape strategy, policy, brand, capital allocation and transformation, helping the whole organisation perform at its best.

We have a singular culture that unites all our people: we are customer-first challengers, who are committed, clear and connected. These behaviours unite us as one team to deliver for our colleagues, our customers, our stakeholders and the country. Joining BT Group means working at the heart of a business that matters to the UK, with the opportunity to shape decisions, influence outcomes and help set the future course of one of the country’s most important companies.