Airtime Finance Expert - Tesco Mobile

Job Description

This role is part of the Tesco Mobile team and will be based out of the Tesco Mobile Slough.

We’re looking for an Airtime Finance Expert to help develop the future of our financial control environment.

In the first 10 months, you will play a pivotal role as the finance lead on our high‑priority migration to a new rating platform. You’ll develop the future-state accounting, reconciliation and reporting framework, ensuring the platform is robust, compliant, auditable and ready for launch. Working within an Agile Finance Transformation squad, you’ll partner closely with Revenue Assurance, Data & Insight, Finance Operations, programme delivery teams, and wider VMO2 stakeholders.

Following the transformation, the role transitions into permanent ownership of Airtime Finance Manager responsibilities, leading airtime revenue and margin reporting, Ofcom submissions, controls improvement, policy stewardship, and continuous process optimisation. This is an outstanding opportunity to influence the operating model of a major JV, modernise core finance processes, and work with cutting‑edge tooling as part of our Finance Transformation and Data Modernisation roadmap.

If you want to make a significant impact in a high‑profile and fast paced environment that values curiosity, rigour and innovation, we’d love to hear from you

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

In order to be considered, you must have the following experience;

• A recognised professional accounting qualification (ACA / ACCA / CIMA or equivalent).
• Proven experience in financial process design, risk & control frameworks, especially in environments undergoing platform or process change.
• Strong technical accounting expertise. Including IFRS 15 revenue recognition and IFRS 9 impairment/bad debt.
• Advanced analytical capability. Able to interrogate large datasets, understand data flows and translate insights into accurate financial outputs.
• Demonstrated experience working with auditors. Producing audit-ready evidence packs, reconciliations, and technical explanations

The other stuff we are looking for

We'd also love you to bring;

• Telecoms experience - Exposure to rating, mediation, billing, usage data or revenue assurance.
• Familiarity with Ofcom reporting requirements.
• Experience with Oracle ERP, FloQast or similar control/evidence tooling.
• Prior involvement in complex systems migrations, parallel runs or UAT cycles involving financial data.
• Technical skills such as Power BI, SQL, Python, Databricks or automation tooling

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. Once you've submitted an application the next steps of the process, if successful, are likely to include two stage interview process.

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.

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