Finance Business Partner

6 months ago


Welwyn Garden City, United Kingdom Tesco Full time

About the role
An excellent opportunity to join the fast-paced Distribution team. With inflationary pressures and expansion ambitions this role will partner the Distribution Transformation teams to support in-year operations and longer-term strategic direction through identifying and delivering simplification and efficiency.

Distribution is a varied and fast paced area that services every UK format and fuel forecourt, through a network of distribution centres and the use of road, rail and sea. Over 15,000 Tesco colleagues work within our distribution network.

As the Finance lead for Distribution, you will run & maintain capital plan, ensuring optimal capital allocation and delivering high quality business cases and post investment reviews

You will work with the Distribution and Fulfilment Transformation Directors and their teams to provide financial stewardship, challenging the long-term strategies ensuring we have robust plans to deliver our ambitious targets set by the strategic pillar - Save to Invest and Easily the Most Convenient.

**This job will be considered on a full and part time basis**

You will be responsible for
- Partner the Transformation Directors in Distribution leading strategic projects, including in-year support and long-term modelling.
- Working with Distribution programme managers to build financially robust Transformation programmes that deliver targets for our Save to Invest and Easily the Most Convenient initiatives.
- Support and oversight of RTOC (Reduce Total Operating Costs) to deliver strategic and cost saving projects across Distribution and including periodic reporting, budgeting, and long-term planning
- Support the business teams to complete Investment Committee papers.
- Work closely with the wider Distribution leadership and finance colleagues to land initiatives and transfer ownership from Transformation to operational owners.

You will need
- Accountancy qualification - ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent
- Ability to proactively engage and challenge both finance and non-finance senior colleagues
- Excellent analytical and strategic skills and ability to understand both detail and bigger picture
- Ability to demonstrate peer to peer leadership, both build relations and provide a level of challenge to drive the best outcomes for the business
- Experience in managing strategic projects

About us
Our vision at Tesco is to become every customer's favourite way to shop, whether they are at home or out on the move. Our core purpose is ‘Serving our customers, communities and planet a little better every day’. Serving means more than a transactional relationship with our customers. It means acting as a responsible and sustainable business for all stakeholders, for the communities we are part of and for the planet.

We are proud to have an inclusive culture at Tesco where everyone truly feels able to be themselves. At Tesco, we not only celebrate diversity, but recognise the value and opportunity it brings. We're committed to creating a workplace where differences are valued, and make sure that all colleagues are given the same opportunities. We’re proud to have been accredited Disability Confident Leader and we’re committed to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process. For further information on the accessibility support we can offer, please click here.

We’re a big business and we can offer a range of diverse full-time & part-time working patterns across our many business areas, which means that we can find something that works for you. We work in a more blended pattern - combining office and remote working. Our offices will continue to be where we connect, collaborate and innovate. Please talk to us about how this can work for you - Everyone is welcome at Tesco.

What’s in it for you
We offer excellent benefits that help make Tesco a great place to work These include but are not limited to:

- Annual bonus scheme
- Holiday starting at 25 days plus a personal day (plus Bank holidays)
- Retirement savings plan - save between 4% and 7.5% and Tesco will match your contribution
- Life Assurance - 5 x contractual pay
- 24/7 virtual GP service, Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) for you and your family, free access to a range of experts to support your mental wellbeing
- Great colleague deals and discounts, saving you money on everyday purchases, eating out and utility bills for the home
- Access to our colleague networks providing a space for colleagues to come together from a range of backgrounds. For more information about our colleague networks please click here
- Opportunities to get on - take advantage of our ongoing learning opportunities and award winning training, to help you achieve the job and career you want

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