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About the role
The Financial Planning and Analysis Manager leads complex planning and reporting activities across the Group or Business Unit, ensuring financial integrity, governance, and insight. The role supports strategic decision-making, drives performance improvement, and enables transformation through accurate forecasting, analysis, and stakeholder engagement.
What you’ll be doing
1. Delivers complex financial planning and analysis activities, including forecasting, budgeting, reporting, P and L, balance sheet, cash flow, cost management, and investment appraisal.
2. Builds a comprehensive understanding of monthly financial performance across the Group, translating insights into clear, actionable commentary for senior stakeholders including the Group CFO, Executive Committee and Board.
3. Leads the coordination and production of accurate and insightful Group and Network Services management reporting, ensuring timely delivery to inform strategic decisions.
4. Owns consolidation and reporting processes across key financial metrics (e.g. EBITDA, Capex, TLR), partnering with finance teams and offshore colleagues to ensure robust planning and controls.
5. Supports the transformation of reporting processes, championing the use of SAP and driving simplification and automation aligned to Group finance systems strategy.
6. Evaluates and challenges financial results and MTP submissions, identifying risks, opportunities and performance drivers across business units and cost centres.
7. Provides financial leadership on headcount and labour cost planning, ensuring clarity across traded, development and run resource, and supporting organisational efficiency.
8. Partners with Network Services and Business Ops teams to maintain effective controls and forecasts, linking business strategy to financial reporting, KPIs and goal setting.
9. Coaches and develops finance talent, supporting capability building and performance across UK and offshore teams.
10. Implements continuous improvement in financial processes and systems, resolving data issues, enhancing reporting accuracy, and sharing knowledge on emerging trends and practices.
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Our Package
At BT International, our purpose is to keep the world connected. As part of BT, we build on almost 180 years of innovation and expertise to deliver secure connectivity and digital services to some of the world’s leading multinational businesses and organisations. Our customers trust us to safeguard their data, drive their digital transformation and keep their businesses running. With colleagues on the ground across the world and supporting customers wherever they need to operate, BT International offers a truly global experience. Whether it’s about providing cloud connectivity, helping organisations collaborate, or enabling innovation in cybersecurity and digital services, you’ll be part of a team that shapes how businesses succeed in a world that is being transformed by AI. If you have the drive and ambition to make an impact on a global stage, BT International is where it happens.
