Business Partnering & Commercial Finance Manager - Mobile

The Consumer Customer Facing Unit (CFU) delivers over £10bn of revenue and £2.4bn of EBITDA for BT Group. The CFU has three consumer brands; EE, BT and Plusnet - and numerous product lines including Landline, Broadband, Mobile, TV and Sport. This provides employees fantastic opportunities to grow their knowledge of the industry and develop a long-lasting career within the unit.

Consumer finance plays a key role in driving top and bottom line growth. The function provides insightful reporting, analysis and business partnering that is integral to optimising decision making and delivering value for shareholders.

What you'll be doing

· This is a key role within the Business Partnering function within Commercial Finance for EE. You will be expected to take the lead from a finance perspective on driving P&L performance, articulating drivers in an insight-driven manner to guide decision-making. You will be influencing and shaping commercial outcomes to ensure the business hits its financial performance targets.

• Finance interface into the EE Marketing (Pricing and Propositions teams), influencing the development of new customer propositions.



• Main point of contact on articulating P&L performance through drivers, along owner of "one source" on profit improvement initiatives.



• Provide robust decision-support to the Marketing team, ensuring pricing and proposition 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 price changes, market impacts and new propositions



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


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



• Knowledge of Mobile telecoms preferable but not essential.


Our leadership standards

We're EE. We are the biggest mobile and broadband operator in the UK and we have a relationship in every second household in the country. But we're for everyone, on any network - serving up new tech, new services, and heaps of inspiration for every aspect of your connected life.

We've been awarded the UK's best network for the last 10 years. It's central to our vision - to be the most personal customer-focused technology company in the UK.

That means earning a place on customers' home screens by offering them more than ever before, whether that's helping their home run smarter with EE Home, levelling up their play with EE Game, helping them work on their terms with EE Work, or even unleashing their kids' learning with EE Learn.

We're also part of BT Group, which we're even bigger than you might think. 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 think we've got something special here. We want everyone to feel proud about working at EE - and feel excited about where we're going and what we're going to do. Want to join in?

Looking in:
Leading inclusively and Safely
I inspire and build trust through self-awareness, honesty and integrity.
Owning outcomes
I take the right decisions that benefit the broader organisation.

Looking out:
Delivering for the customer
I execute brilliantly on clear priorities that add value to our customers and the wider business.
Commercially savvy
I demonstrate strong commercial focus, bringing an external perspective to decision-making.

Looking to the future:
Growth mindset
I experiment and identify opportunities for growth for both myself and the organisation.
Building for the future
I build diverse future-ready teams where all individuals can be at their best.

We value diversity and celebrate difference. '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.