Forecasting, Planning & Analysis Finance Manager - S&C Sub-Sector

Job Description

Location: London, Bristol, Birmingham, Belfast

Hybrid working - three days in the office, two days working from home.

Why this job matters

This role provides finance support to the S&C FP&A Senior Manager and a Sub-Sector Finance Business Partner Senior Manager on key decisions and financial insight. The role leads, designs and implements the forecasting and outlook process, leveraging stakeholders across the Sub-Sector both inside and outside of finance and managing the consolidation of product forecasts and managed contracts where applicable across the channel. Acting as the central point of contact for the Sub-Sectors budget process, this role delviers all supplementary schedules and distils the complex medium term deliverables into simple commentary for senior management briefings. This role also provides meaningful analysis on month end results, understanding the key drivers of performance.

You will bring the right financial tools and framework for identifying and assessing financial performance, providing insight and analysis, and bringing the appropriate level of challenge to the teams to ensure the right outcomes for the performance of the Sub-Sector.

What you’ll be doing

• Act as a trusted partner to senior management, challenging and supporting commercial decisions while shaping business strategy.
• Lead the finance agenda to deliver business objectives, including month-end, outlook, and annual budgeting processes with accuracy and timeliness.
• Provide clear communication of financial deliverables, ensuring deadlines and stakeholder expectations are met.Monitor risks, opportunities, and key performance metrics to drive informed decision-making.
• Build strong relationships with Product Finance and Commercial teams for consistent financial narratives and smooth consolidation.Oversee P&L and EWC tracking with offshore teams, and manage WD10 reporting accuracy and formatting.
• Liaise with external auditors and deliver ad-hoc analysis and presentations as required.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives to enhance FP&A efficiency and accuracy.

The skills you'll need

• Strong financial modeling, analytical skills, and attention to detail.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to simplify complex information.
• Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders and build relationships across all levels.
• Strategic mindset with awareness of business objectives.
• Innovative, challenges the status quo, and seeks best practices.
• Professional accounting qualification (ICAEW, CIMA, ACCA).

Preferred:

• Telecoms industry knowledge and product expertise.
• Track record of influencing senior stakeholders internally and externally.

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.