Finance Business Partner - Bristol, United Kingdom - BT Group

Description

What you'll be doing

– your accountabilities

Finance interface into the EE Marketing team, new partnerships and value driving initiatives.

Articulating P&L performance through drivers

Provide robust decision-support, ensuring in year volume driving proposals deliver value objectives.

Ensuring end-to-end finance engagement on propositions pre-launch in order that the budget / mid-term-plan (MTP) reflects the relevant costs and benefits.

Identification, quantification and mitigation of risks that may arise as a result of both internal and external factors e.g. regulatory, base / churn, ARPU etc..

Ad hoc commercial analysis / impact assessment of new portfolios, new deals & new partners.

Ownership for commercial evaluations of key strategic projects, providing insight and challenge, as well as presenting key outcomes to senior stakeholders.

The skills you'll need to succeed

Exceptional business partnering skills, ability to quickly establish credibility and respect and build strong working relationships, with a proven ability to influence and coach and be prepared to challenge.

Advanced financial modelling (excel) skills - ability to build/manipulate detailed models to arrive at appropriate outputs/metrics to support decision making.

Communication skills - translating complex financial outcomes to senior financial and nonfinancial stakeholders through both oral and written communication. Ability to tailor message to the relevant audience, distilling key messages without losing the appropriate level of detail.

High level of commercial acumen, having the ability to quickly understand new ideas and how they impact the business financially, as well provider suggestions on how they might be improved.

Excellent knowledge of finance, covering a breadth of activities and best in class practices and policies ideally from a finance generalist or finance specialist role.

Fully qualified accountant (CIMA/ACCA/ACA).

Leadership Accountabilities

Experience you'd be expected to have

Collaborative Partner

Solution Focused Achiever

Experience required of budget management, planning & forecasting and financial business partnering

Knowledge of New Markets / New Verticals preferable but not essential e.g. partner marketplace

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