Commercial Finance Lead

Job Description

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

Whilst a member of the Centre of Excellence for Commercial Finance, day to day this role works supporting the Finance squads. The squad covers activities such as acquisition, growth & retention, future propositions, buying, stock and insurance amongst other key areas. The key purpose of the role is to provide financial and commercial leadership to the team and wider business.

This includes driving financial accountability and providing visibility of P&L trajectory, whilst supporting in optimising commercial performance that drives out-performance across the market. The successful candidate will need to take a leadership role across the business, ensuring our agile transformation delivers highly successful outcomes whilst maintaining and evolving appropriate governance!

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;

• Qualified accountant
• Track record of working with non Finance stakeholders to achieve brilliant outcomes
• Ability to influence at all levels of the business
• Desire to act autonomously in setting direction and achieving goals
• Passionate about driving business performance to the next level
• Knowledge & experience of financial modelling, evaluation of pricing initiatives, and value generation

The other stuff we are looking for

We'd also love you to bring;

• Agile ways of working
• Drive, Resilience and Passion
• Experience from Telecommunication, subscription based, and or Technology sector
• Hybrid working from the Slough office- a minimum of 2 days

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

Once you've applied the next steps of the process, if successful, are likely to include a Savile test and a competency based interview.

If you’ve got any burning questions or require reasonable adjustments to support you through the recruitment process, please drop the recruiter a note. Thanks for your patience in the meantime and for showing an interest in joining the Tesco Mobile family.

Please note if you are a former VM candidate and you are successful for this role, you will need to be transferred to an O2 contract. Any length of service would be protected.

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