Finance Professional - Northern Ireland (Maternity cover)

Job Req ID: 36035

Posting Date: 10 Jul 2024

Function: Finance

Unit: Business

Location:

Belfast N.I, United Kingdom

Salary: Competitive plus great benefits

Finance Professional – Northern Ireland (Maternity cover)

• Are you a qualified accountant or currently studying towards qualification?

• Do you have senior stakeholder experience, working within highly matrixed environments?

• Have you collaborated well with non-finance teams?

If so, you could be perfect as our new Finance Professional, based in either Belfast, Bristol, Birmingham or London?

As our key business partner to the sales leaders and the primary point of contact for the business, you will be responsible for holding business leaders accountable for delivering their sales and profit targets. You’ll use financial data and insights to drive action and optimize productivity and performance—both tactically and strategically.

Your work will play a critical role in supporting the customer-facing sales channel, ensuring they meet their financial targets in support of CPS, Business, and BT as a whole.

If you are interested in this great opportunity, we encourage you to apply today or reach out for a confidential discussion. We look forward to hearing from you!

You'll have the following responsibilities

• Month end & reporting: Responsible for the month-end accounting and reporting of applicable areas of the P&L and balance sheet. Regular monthly tracking of performance (using key indicators) and early flagging of performance variance. Is aware of and is flagging any prospective underperformance or opportunities at the earliest opportunity.

• Financial Planning: Management of budget and forecasts. Ensuring robust cost forecasting and controls, including management of financial risks and growth opportunities.

• Data Analysis: Drive a data-led and insight orientated culture, ensuring high quality data sets for decision making are available.

• Business Partnering: Business partnering the NI Account Team for a number of key customers to improve the impact, and understanding, of financial performance of the unit.

• Stakeholder Management: Owning the day-to-day financial relationship with the wider BT Finance team and NI Account Team ranging from billing processes, including calculation of invoices and provision of customer back-up spreadsheets.

• Cost Transformation: Supports EBITDA/Cost Transformation. Takes proactive ownership of EBITDA improvement projects and works with the wider business to achieve beneficial results.

You'll have the following skills & experience

• Experience in using IT tools to manipulate and simply summarise large and complex data sets e.g. intermediate to advanced excel.

• Senior Stakeholder experience and working within highly matrixed environments.

• Experience working collaboratively with non-finance teams.

• Developed an internal network of strong working relationships you can call on to assist with your role.

• Tackled process/policy obstacles to delivery.

• Coordinated the work of colleagues or team to fit within a broader programme of work.

Benefits

• 25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays)

• 10% on target bonus

• Pension scheme, if you contribute 5%, BT contribute 10%

• Flexible benefits: cycle to work, healthcare, etc.

• Discounted BT products, retail vouchers and other great benefits

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.

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.