Financial Planning & Analysis Manager

Job Description

Locations: London or Bristol - 3 days in the office, 2 days working from home.

Why this job matters

You’ll provide financial direction, control and insight to the Network & Digital leadership and Finance teams, ensuring robust planning, reporting and governance. Working closely with Finance teams across Networks, Digital and Corporate, you’ll act as a key partner in delivering critical operational and transformation objectives.

You’ll bring strong financial frameworks, tools and analysis to assess performance, drive informed decision‑making and apply constructive challenge. Your expertise will help ensure accurate forecasting, high-quality reporting and effective financial stewardship across the Network & Digital organisation.

What you’ll be doing

• Support Networks & Digital balance sheet management, including cashflow forecasting.
• Partner with Finance Business Partners to manage working capital effectively.
• Deliver key financial control activities to meet Group requirements.
• Contribute to monthly cash consolidation, highlighting material risks and opportunities.
• Provide timely, accurate monthly management reporting to inform leadership decisions.
• Promote effective use of Finance Shared Services, Finance COEs and BT Sourced across Networks & Digital.Support and develop offshore colleagues collaborating with the team.
• Translate complex financial information for senior financial and non-financial stakeholders, tailoring messaging to the audience.
• Manage time and priorities effectively across multiple deliverables and stakeholders.

The skills you'll need

• Fully qualified accountant.
• Cash management experience beneficial.
• Proven professionalism operating in a complex, fast‑paced, matrixed environment.
• Strong stakeholder influence and relationship‑building capability.
• Customer‑centric approach to financial processes.
• Experience driving improved financial performance.
• Strong strategic thinking and commercial awareness.
• Collaborative and solutions‑focused problem solver.
• Proficient in Excel with strong written and verbal communication skills and exceptional attention to detail.

Benefits

• 10% on target bonus
• BT Pension scheme, minimum 5% Employee contribution, BT contribution 10%
• From January 2025, equal family leave: receive 18 weeks at full pay, 8 weeks at half pay and 26 weeks at the statutory rate. It’s for all parents, no matter how your family is made up.
• Enhanced women’s health support: including help with menopause symptoms, cancer screenings, period care and more.
• 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.

Our leadership standards

Looking in:
Leading inclusively and Safely
I inspire and build trust through self-awareness, honesty and integrity.
Owning outcomes
I take the right decisions that benefit the broader organisation.

Looking out:
Delivering for the customer
I execute brilliantly on clear priorities that add value to our customers and the wider business.
Commercially savvy
I demonstrate strong commercial focus, bringing an external perspective to decision-making.

Looking to the future:
Growth mindset
I experiment and identify opportunities for growth for both myself and the organisation.
Building for the future
I build diverse future-ready teams where all individuals can be at their best.

About us

BT Group was the world’s first telco and our heritage in the sector is unrivalled. As home to several of the UK’s most recognised and cherished brands – BT, EE, Openreach and Plusnet, we have always played a critical role in creating the future, and we have reached an inflection point in the transformation of our business.

Over the next two years, we will complete the UK’s largest and most successful digital infrastructure project – connecting more than 25 million premises to full fibre broadband. Together with our heavy investment in 5G, we play a central role in revolutionising how people connect with each other.

While we are through the most capital-intensive phase of our fibre investment, meaning we can reward our shareholders for their commitment and patience, we are absolutely focused on how we organise ourselves in the best way to serve our customers in the years to come. This includes radical simplification of systems, structures, and processes on a huge scale. Together with our application of AI and technology, we are on a path to creating the UK’s best telco, reimagining the customer experience and relationship with one of this country’s biggest infrastructure companies.

Change on the scale we will all experience in the coming years is unprecedented. BT Group is committed to being the driving force behind improving connectivity for millions and there has never been a more exciting time to join a company and leadership team with the skills, experience, creativity, and passion to take this company into a new era.

A FEW POINTS TO NOTE:

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.

DON'T MEET EVERY SINGLE REQUIREMENT?

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 - you may just be the right candidate for this or other roles in our wider team.