Business Partnering & Commercial Finance Manager, Products & Partnerships

Job Description

Job Req ID: 59606

Location: Bristol, London or Birmingham

About the role

This is a key role within the Business Partnering function within Commercial Finance for Mobile and New Markets. You will be expected to take the lead from a finance perspective on driving P&L performance, articulating drivers in an insight-driven manner to guide decision-making. You will be influencing and shaping commercial outcomes to ensure the business hits its financial performance targets.

What you’ll be doing

• Finance interface into the EE Marketing (Pricing and Propositions teams), influencing the development of new customer propositions.
• Main point of contact on articulating P&L performance through drivers, along owner of “one source” on profit improvement initiatives.
• Provide robust decision-support to the Marketing team, ensuring pricing and proposition proposals deliver value objectives.
• Ensuring end-to-end finance engagement on propositions pre-launch in order that the budget / mid-term-plan (MTP) reflects the relevant costs and benefits.
• Identification, quantification and mitigation of risks that may arise as a result of both internal and external factors e.g. regulatory, base / churn, ARPU etc..
• Ad hoc commercial analysis / impact assessment of price changes, market impacts and new propositions
• Ownership for commercial evaluations of key strategic projects, providing insight and challenge, as well as presenting key outcomes to senior stakeholders.

Essential Skills / Experience

• Exceptional business partnering skills, ability to quickly establish credibility and respect and build strong working relationships, with a proven ability to influence and coach and be prepared to challenge.
• Communication skills - translating complex financial outcomes to senior financial and nonfinancial stakeholders through both oral and written communication. Ability to tailor message to the relevant audience, distilling key messages without losing the appropriate level of detail.
• High level of commercial acumen, having the ability to quickly understand new ideas and how they impact the business financially, as well provider suggestions on how they might be improved.

Desirable Skills / Experience

• Advanced financial modelling (excel) skills - ability to build/manipulate detailed models to arrive at appropriate outputs/metrics to support decision making.
• Excellent knowledge of finance, covering a breadth of activities and best in class practices and policies ideally from a finance generalist or finance specialist role.
• Fully qualified accountant (CIMA/ACCA/ACA).
• Experience required of budget management, planning & forecasting and financial business partnering
• Knowledge of Mobile telecoms preferable but not essential.

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.