Commercial Finance Manager - Tesco Mobile

The Centre of Excellence for Commercial Finance provides all finance decision support and finance business partnering to the business, via direct support into our Agile Tribes and Squads. The team is responsible for all decision support, including pricing and proposition evaluation across acquisition, in-life, retention, and future propositions, as well as marketing, stock, contact, channels and data analytics & platforms. This includes any analysis to support the achievement of business objectives & key results. Tesco Mobile is on a fantastic agile transformation journey, and the team continually adapts processes & outputs to support this.

The key purpose of the role is to provide financial partnering and decision support on headcount as well as other key parts of the business, driving financial accountability and optimisation via partnering and deployment of due diligence, deep dive, modelling, continuous improvement and lean techniques. The role could cover, though not limited to, areas such as headcount, handset returns, stock management, stock shrinkage and bad debt & fraud amongst other areas.

The role could also cover producing business cases for growth and pricing initiatives to drive profitable growth, as well as partnering and driving opportunities across the business and our customer base.

The successful candidate will need to help ensure our agile transformation delivers highly successful outcomes whilst maintaining and evolving appropriate governance. As a member of an Agile team, the successful candidate is expected to help support the wider team's objectives and deliverables as applicable.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead on partnering key stakeholders in relation to their cost base, including improving governance around decisions, implementing new controls, and driving accountability.
• Drive optimisation of costs: identifying cost drivers, evaluating the value derived from the spend, and working with commercial stakeholders to optimise this.
• Leading deep dives into specific cost lines: using techniques from due diligence, deep dives, financial modelling, continuous improvement and lean thinking to establish the key drivers.
• Input into & drive the prioritisation of initiatives, influencing our commercial tribes & squads to maximise value.
• Identify risks and opportunities for P&L delivery and cashflow, via ad-hoc analysis and outlook/forecast/budget processes as applicable, including impact of decisions on other parts of the business, whilst proactively seeking to manage and mitigate risks.
• Producing business cases for growth and pricing initiatives to drive profitable growth, as well as partnering and driving opportunities across the business and across our customer base.

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 its 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 partnering with non-Finance stakeholders to achieve brilliant outcomes.
• Strong communication skills, with keen eye for detail and an ability to spot trends & drivers to drive optimisation.
• Ability to influence stakeholders.
• Resilience: not afraid to challenge the status quo and drive outstanding performance.
• Knowledge & experience of financial modelling, evaluation of options, and value generation.
• Excellent analytical skill, with ability to convert data into clear and engaging insight.

The other stuff we are looking for

We'd also love you to bring:

• Self-motivated with a growth mindset.
• Passionate about driving business performance to the next level.
• Continuous improvement mindset, with passion for learning and applying lean and agile principles.

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 interview stages, one on Teams and the final interview stage will be a face-to-face interview in Slough.

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.