Finance Business Partner - Birmingham, United Kingdom - BT Group

BT Group

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Birmingham, United Kingdom

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Finance Business Partner - Digital Capex

Job Req ID:17912
Posting Date:16 Jun 2023
Function:Finance
Location:Snowhill, Birmingham, United Kingdom
Salary:Competitive + Excellent Benefits
Why this job matters
In Digital we have a clear vision, mission and purpose.

We play a critical role in driving pan-Digital transformation, customer digital experience and have an ambitious roadmap to improve our efficiency, quality and time to market as well as fundamentally simplify our architecture.

Transformation and Integration programmes are at the heart of IT's mid-term plan and pivotal to BT's future success.

The role holder will be the co-ordinating finance lead for all Capital Investments within Digital.

The role holder will play a key role in influencing the investment decisions that are responsible for ensuring Digital investments drive the maximum benefits for BT in the short and long terms.

In addition, the role holder will have the responsibility of tracking and analysing the Actuals and Outlooks for Digital Capex and associated benefits, as well as working closely with the other Digital Finance Business Partners to understand the picture across all Digital units and provide insight to senior management.

What you'll be doing

Overall finance owner of £0.6bn of capital investment across Digital investment prioritisation, monitoring and reporting
Working with COO to bring financial acumen into the Digital investment programmes, and ensuring ideas and learning is shared across programmes and Units
Build and maintain an understanding of how investment (based on Unit demand) is forecast to be delivered in Digital and make judgements on how deliverable this demand is within the units based on resource capacity.
Contribute to budgets, forecasts, reports and analysis through technical and functional expertise.
Work hand in Hand with the Digital Investment Board to ensure the right cases are approved and that benefits and costs are clear and factored into MTP.
Building and maintaining strong respected based relationships across all the Capex investment community
Driving a programme of meaningful inflight review across all investment programme, to confirm we continue to invest in our priorities and maximise return.

The skills you'll need

Qualified accountant (ACA/ACCA/CIMA or equivalent) with significant PQE (3yr+) and/or external experience in Big 4 / industry
Excellent commercial acumen and decision making across Digital's total budget including investment appraisals
Ability to think strategically and articulate and create business models
Dataled approach to solving complex problems and driving insight
Ability to handle high levels of pressure and execute critical decision making as well as being selfmotivating
Excellent communicator capable of engaging and influencing leaders up to and including the Digital LT and across all Functions

Benefits

10% on target bonus
25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays)
BT Pension Scheme; 5% employee, 10% BT contribution
BT Share Plan
Discounted BT products including TV, Mobile and Broadband
Worldclass training and development opportunities
Flexible working arrangements

About us

BT is part of BT Group, along with EE, Openreach, and Plusnet.
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 value diversity and celebrate difference. As Philip Jansen, our CEO, says '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.- This is your chance to make a real difference to the world: to be part of the digital transformation of countless lives and businesses.

Grab it.