Business Partnering

4 weeks ago

Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom British Telecom Full time


Business Partnering & Commercial Finance Manager, Trading

Job Req ID: 32413

Posting Date: 25 Apr 2024

Function: Finance

Unit: Consumer

Location:

Snowhill, Birmingham, United Kingdom

Salary: competitive

Closing Date: 6th May

Birmingham, hybrid 3 days office/ 2 days remote

About EE

We're EE. We are the biggest mobile and broadband operator in the UK and we have a relationship in every second household in the country. But we're for everyone, on any network – serving up new tech, new services, and heaps of inspiration for every aspect of your connected life.

We've been awarded the UK's best network for the last 10 years. It's central to our vision – to be the most personal customer-focused technology company in the UK.

That means earning a place on customers' home screens by offering them more than ever before, whether that's helping their home run smarter with EE Home, levelling up their play with EE Game, helping them work on their terms with EE Work, or even unleashing their kids' learning with EE Learn.

We're also part of BT Group, which we're even bigger than you might think. Millions of people rely on us every day to help them live their lives, power their businesses, and keep their public services running. We connect friends to family, clients to colleagues, people to possibilities. We keep the wheels of business spinning, and the emergency services responding.

We think we've got something special here. We want everyone to feel proud about working at EE – and feel excited about where we're going and what we're going to do. Want to join in?

Why this job matters

This role provides business partnering to the Commercial trading team, focusing on our 8m Broadband and Fixed Voice customers with the aim of optimising both volume and value of trading transactions.

The role includes financial responsibility for BT, EE and Plusnet base management activities, advising and guiding the commercial trading team to make effective financial decisions, delivering in-year P&L objectives, and ultimately, sustainable long-term base growth.

What you'll be doing

  1. Finance business partner the home commercial trading team, supporting and proactively driving financially rational decisions across base trading.
  2. Analyse key KPIs across volume and value on a weekly basis to produce concise and timely reporting.
  3. Evaluate and review ad-hoc in-quarter business cases to agree on corrective trading decisions and risk mitigation.
  4. Deep dive into key focus areas within trading P&L and present salient points to wider Commercial Steerco to drive action.
  5. Supporting with post-implementation reviews of tests/trials to ensure unbiased performance ealuation and clear recommendations for next steps.
  6. Review trading forecasts for risks and opportunities, including in-quarter outlooks, six monthly rolling forecasts, and annual budgets.
  7. Support medium and long-term customer trading strategies through opportunity analysis of channel strategy and cross-brand/cross-product optimisation, aligning commercial and consumer strategies.
  8. Seek to continuously improve efficiency and accuracy of reporting and forecasts, highlighting data issues and challenges to the appropriate teams.

Skills

  1. Advanced financial modelling (Excel) skills - the ability to build/manipulate detailed models to arrive at appropriate outputs/metrics to support decision-making.
  2. Able to identify issues and get to root causes through financial analysis and insight to diagnose and solve problems.
  3. Experience in finance business partnering, with a proven ability to influence and build relationships with key stakeholders.
  4. Communication skills - translating complex financial outcomes to senior financial and non-financial stakeholders through oral and written communication, with the ability to tailor the message to the relevant audience.
  5. Able to deal with ambiguity, identify resources to implement and determine pragmatic solutions
  6. Background in commercial-related roles preferable, with knowledge of how commercial decisions and trends affect short and long-term financial performance
  7. Bias towards bold and confident thinking, challenging the status quo where appropriate
  8. Demonstrable professionalism with a proven ability to operate in a complex, fast-paced matrixed business environment
  9. Qualified accountant, e.g. ACA, CIMA, ACCA

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.

We value diversity and celebrate difference. 'We embed diversity and inclusion into everything that we do. It's fundamental to our purpose: we connect for good.'

We all stick to the same values: Personal, Simple, and Brilliant. From day one, you'll get stuck in to tough challenges, pitch in with ideas, make things happen. But you won't be alone: we'll be there with help and support, learning and development.

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.

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.

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