12 months Senior Business Partnering & Commercial Finance Manager, Marketing

The role will be responsible for the provision of commercial finance support and business partnering various teams within the Marketing division within Consumer which has an overall operating expenditure of c£300 per annum.

The role will provide financial business partnering to the Consumer Marketing team to ensure that expenditure is within budget. Seek to drive and challenge the Marketing organisation to drive opportunities to lower spend and ensure sound financial decisions are made in relation to Opex spend to support Consumer strategic KPIs

Provide regular outlooks to Marketing and Finance leadership to ensure any risks and opportunities are identified early - and drive the Marketing organisation to mitigate any areas of overspend

Support Marketing Finance in preparing business cases for launch of new propositions to ensure suitable opex is forecast

Lead and manage a team to effectively partner with Marketing, to ensure spend of within budget, and outlooks (incl 5 year plan) along with reasons for deviation to plans are highlighted and present options for mitigations and further savings

Drive an agenda of cost efficiency and transformation within Marketing

• Influencing; Proven ability to influence and to build key relationships with appropriate business partners


• Business acumen: Knowledgeable in drivers of organisational performance (e.g. business KPIs, business cases) and experience of business case creation and evalutation


• Fully Qualified Accountant with 3+ years PQE


Experience

• Experience of finance business partnering to senior leaders


• Team management experience


• Working understanding of Consumer marketing objectives and how we compete for brand awareness


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?

Why this job matters

We've always been an organisation with purpose; to use the power of communications to make a better world. You can trace this back to our beginning as pioneers of the world's first telecommunications company. At our heart we're a technology company with research and innovation in our bones and a desire to be personal, simple, and brilliant for our customers - those are the values we live by whilst also creating an inclusive working environment where people from all backgrounds can succeed.

Our pursuit of progress over the past 180 years has established BT as a strong, successful brand, with huge scale capable of achieving great things. From supporting emergency services, hospitals, banks and keeping economies around the world online, safe and secure, to delivering large scale technology infrastructure like the creation of BT Sport.

Today in this fast changing, always on, digital world our purpose remains true. Yet the market conditions, regulation and competition we face are tougher than ever before. So if you have the drive, optimism and resilience to help propel us forward we'll offer unrivalled personal development, a wealth of opportunities to learn, experience new things and pursue new careers. If that's you and what you're looking for, we'd love you to be part of our future.

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.