Head of Finance

5 months ago


Welwyn Garden City, United Kingdom Tesco Full time

About the role
In this fantastic role you will act as the primary expert and interface into Finance and provide insight, challenge and strategic support to the distribution leadership team. Helping drive the business forward through financial and commercial expertise and understanding. You will be the business advocate by focusing beyond finance boundary, looking forward with a view to challenge and influences decisions. Acting as a strategic partner by creating and driving value opportunities to the management team

You will be responsible for
- Working with the Channel Leadership team to set the strategy for the function
- Responsible for forecasting and managing the Distribution budgets and capital investment
- Act as a catalyst in driving forward finance transformation initiatives critical to delivering the Distribution strategy
- Business partnering the Distribution & Fulfillment Director and the wider Distribution leadership team to shape the strategy and understand / challenge the financial impact of strategic plans, propositions and initiatives
- Developing and leading a strong team of c17 people, giving them the opportunities to be their best and continue their development
- Leading the overall financial plan for distribution (£1.5bn), across warehouse & transport (long term plan, budget, rolling forecasts and monitoring risks & opportunities)
- Provide proactive insight and challenge to support decision making
- Supporting the delivery of the distribution 5 year network strategy by building robust cases and driving continuous improvement. Business case development and analysis to deliver of Capital investments in excess of £250m
- Support in the delivery of pay negotiations with the unions across the 28 Distribution centers

You will need
- Accountancy qualification - ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent
- Finance experience in driving strategic priorities in large complex organisations
- Experience of engaging and working with senior colleagues
- Previous experience in financial analysis and business partnering
- Effective team management

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.

What’s in it for you
We’re all about the little helps. That’s why we give our wonderful colleagues bags of benefits. Including wellbeing services, an award-winning pension scheme and much, much more, our colleague reward package keeps on giving. And helps make every day a little better for you and your family. These include but are not limited to:

- Annual bonus scheme of up to 45% of base salary
- Car allowance of £7,320 per annum
- Holiday starting at 25 days plus a personal day (plus Bank holidays)
- Buy holiday salary sacrifice scheme (for salaried roles)
- Private medical insurance
- Retirement savings plan - save between 6% - 10% and Tesco will contribute 1.5 times this amount
- Life Assurance - 5 x contractual pay
- 26 weeks maternity and adoption leave (after 1 years’ service) at full pay, followed by 13 weeks of Statutory Maternity Pay or Statutory Adoption Pay, we also offer 4 weeks fully paid paternity leave
- The right to request flexible working from your first day with us
- Free 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
- A Colleague Clubcard for you & a family member (after 3 months of service), giving you access to lots of discounts in-store & online
- 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

Click Here to read more about the full range of benefits we have available for our colleagues



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