Airtime Finance Expert

As an Airtime Finance Expert, you’ll play a key role in ensuring the accuracy, integrity and insight behind one of Tesco Mobile’s most significant revenue streams. Joining our Accounting Chapter within Financial Control, you’ll take ownership of airtime revenue and margin accounting, helping to shape reporting, strengthen controls and support strategic decision-making across the business. This is an opportunity to apply your technical expertise in a highly visible role while contributing to the ongoing evolution of our finance operating model.

Working across a broad range of stakeholders, you’ll combine strong accounting knowledge with a passion for continuous improvement. From revenue recognition and bad debt accounting to audit delivery, VAT considerations and process optimisation, you’ll help drive financial excellence while embracing new technologies and modern ways of working. This role offers the chance to influence change, solve complex challenges and develop your career in a collaborative and forward-thinking environment. Who we are Tesco Mobile is a totally unique business, a 50/50 joint venture between VMO2 and Tesco that launched back in 2003 and has gone from strength to strength as we’ve launched into new services, markets and customer propositions.

Tesco Mobile has more than 5 million customers and is award-winning, instilling agile methodologies and cultivating a fantastic can-do attitude across it's teams. We're always on the lookout for the best talent, be that from our two shareholders or the wider industry.

Working at Tesco Mobile means being employed by one of our joint venture shareholders – Virgin Media O2 or Tesco Mobile, our Head Office vacancies are advertised under both brands. Our culture is uniquely Tesco Mobile with a great sense of community, but with all the benefits of working for one of the shareholders as well. We pride ourselves on being a company where everyone’s welcome and truly feels able to be themselves. We not only celebrate diversity but recognise the value and opportunity it brings in helping us to care for human connection – we are supermarket mobile! The must haves • Professional accounting qualification (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent).
• Strong knowledge of IFRS 15 revenue accounting and IFRS 9 bad debt/impairment accounting
.• Experience designing financial processes, controls and risk frameworks, including implementing process or platform changes.
• Proven experience working with statutory auditors and delivering audit-ready documentation and evidence.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to interrogate large datasets and translate findings into accurate accounting. The other stuff we are looking for • Telecoms experience across billing, usage data, mediation, rating or revenue assurance.
• Practical VAT experience relating to telecoms, including roaming and bad debt considerations.
• Exposure to Oracle ERP, FloQast or similar financial control and compliance tools.
• Experience supporting systems migrations, testing or complex financial data flow changes.
• Skills in Power BI, SQL, Python, Databricks or process automation tools. What's in it for you Our goal is to celebrate our people, their lives and everything in-between. We aim to create a culture that empowers everyone to bring the best versions of themselves to work each and every day. We believe the most inclusive and diverse culture makes for a better business and a brighter world.

Working at Tesco Mobile means you get a bumper reward package bursting with benefits, and loads of extras you can add if you’d like to. These are designed to support both you and your loved ones, making sure that you’re covered no matter what life throws your way.

We're all about hybrid working here, so expect to have a base location where you'll have the right facilities to enable amazing collaboration and quality time with your team, alongside all the right kit to work from home too. Next steps If we feel like a place where you can belong, we'd love to learn more about you as a person and your experience to date.

Please note: Applications will be reviewed, and interviews conducted throughout the duration of this advert, therefore we may bring the closing date forward. We encourage all interested applicants to apply as soon as possible. If you’re offered a job with us, it will be conditional, based on the passing of background checks. All roles require a criminal record check and some roles need a financial probity check. Your recruiter can provide you with more information if needed.

Thanks for your patience and for showing an interest in joining the Tesco Mobile family. LH-ST1