Business Partnering & Commercial Finance Manager, Broadband Job Req ID: 42903 Posting Date: 14 Feb 2025 Function: Finance Unit: Consumer Location: Snowhill, Birmingham, United Kingdom Salary: Competitive **Business Partnering & Commercial Finance Manager, Broadband** + Are you a qualified accountant? + Do you have business partnering skills? + Do you have great stakeholder management and financial modelling skills? If so, you could be a great fit for our **Business Partnering & Commercial Finance Manager, Broadband** . This role offers two days working from home and three days per week from our landmark offices in either Birmingham, Sheffield, Bristol, or London. This is a key role within the Commercial Finance team for EE. You will be expected to take the lead from a finance perspective on commercial reporting and base management, articulating the key drivers in an insight-driven manner to guide decision-making. You will influence and shape commercial outcomes to ensure the business hits its financial performance targets. This role will support the Head of Broadband Trading Finance with exposure to the Director community. You will lead on commercial reporting and analysis of Broadband, including inflows, outflows, and re-contracts, provide business partnering support for the Commercial Trading & Planning teams, and take ownership of the quarterly outlooks, rolling forecasts, and longer-term base management. **What you’ll be doing** + Lead the commercial reporting process for Broadband and act as the point of contact for articulating commercial performance drivers. + Finance interface with the Commercial team, influencing future trading direction. + Ownership of robust performance tracking, ensuring performance is correctly measured and aligned with the P&L outcome. + Align robust, interlocked financial targets to underpin budget and rolling forecast processes. + Develop and take ownership of base planning models to highlight longer-term trends across all Consumer brands. + Identify, quantify, and mitigate risks that may arise from both internal and external factors. + Conduct ad hoc commercial analysis and impact assessments of market impacts and commercial decisions. + Think “outside the box” and consider multiple perspectives to identify clear commercial, cash flow, and cost opportunities. **Skills Required** + Qualified Accountant (ACA/ACCA/CIMA or equivalent) – Possess a recognized accounting qualification, demonstrating a high level of expertise and professionalism in the field. + Data skills – Enhance value reporting across functions and manage complex, large data sets. + Business partnering skills – Quickly establish credibility and respect, build strong working relationships, influence and coach others, and be prepared to challenge. Includes experience in planning & forecasting and financial business partnering. + Coordination and alignment – Coordinate and align plans across multiple stakeholders, processes, and decision-making forums. + Commercial acumen – Quickly understand new ideas and their financial impact on the business, and provide suggestions for improvement. Demonstrate commercial analysis skills and experience within a commercial setting. + Communication skills – Translate complex financial outcomes to senior financial and non-financial stakeholders through both oral and written communication. Tailor messages to the relevant audience, distilling key points without losing necessary detail. + Finance knowledge – Possess excellent knowledge of finance, covering a wide range of activities and best practices. **Benefits** + 10% on target bonus + BT Pension scheme, minimum 5% Employee contribution, BT contribution 10% + From January 2025, equal family leave: receive 18 weeks at full pay, 8 weeks at half pay and 26 weeks at the statutory rate. It’s for all parents, no matter how your family is made up. + Enhanced women’s health support: including help with menopause symptoms, cancer screenings, period care and more. + 25 days annual leave (not including bank holidays), increasing with service + 24/7 private virtual GP appointments for UK colleagues + 2 weeks carer’s leave + World-class training and development opportunities + Option to join BT Shares Saving schemes. **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. ‘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. **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. ‘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. **A FEW POINTS TO NOTE:** Although these roles are listed as full-time, if you’re a job share partnership, work reduced hours, or any other way of working flexibly, please still get in touch. We will also offer reasonable adjustments for the selection process if required, so please do not hesitate to inform us. **DON'T MEET EVERY SINGLE REQUIREMENT?** Studies have shown that women and people who are disabled, LGBTQ+, neurodiverse or from ethnic minority backgrounds are less likely to apply for jobs unless they meet every single qualification and criteria. We're committed to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace where everyone can be their best, so if you're excited about this role but your past experience doesn't align perfectly with every requirement on the Job Description, please apply anyway - you may just be the right candidate for this or other roles in our wider team.