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Finance Business Partner - Shire Park

Employer
Tesco
Location
Shire Park
Salary
Competitive
Closing date
25 Mar 2018

Job Introduction
Our vision here at Tesco is to become every customer's favourite way to shop, whether they are at home, out shopping, on the move, anywhere in the world.
We want our customers to be inspired and whatever they are looking for, we're finding bigger and better ways to provide it.
Everything is underpinned by our continuous drive for the best tools and technology to deliver our vision. We're driving innovation and transforming to become the world's leading retailer.
We need people who share our ambition to deliver for our customers; Passionate and confident people willing to take the initiative and drive us forwards. In return we offer excitement, a great team, an excellent benefit package, and significant career development opportunities.
Joining us means playing a part in defining and shaping the future of the UK's largest retailer, in a way that could affect the lives of millions of people over the years to come.
If that sounds exciting then we'd love to hear from you.
The position will be based at our offices in Welwyn Garden City
About The Product Finance team
The Product Finance team is a team that sits side by side the Product Commercial teams, across four divisions (Packaged, Fresh, General Merchandise and Clothing). We work with the divisional leadership teams to ensure that we offer the best value to customers, drive innovation and insight to drive profit, and growth.

Main Responsibilities
Whilst specific responsibilities will be dependent upon the changing needs of the Tesco business, the following provides an overview of the role's key responsibilities and measures:
  • Coordinate LTP process for GM division
  • Pro-actively support and drive strategic initiatives
  • Support business cases (e.g. capital, new range, new suppliers, etc)
  • Overlay commercial acumen on analysis performed by FP&A teams to drive insights and decision support.
  • Constructively challenge and recommend changes to the business underpinned by sound financial expertise.
  • Review, adjust and communicate strategic and operational plans to the relevant commercial and operations teams.
  • Lead business/operational plan reviews to ensure plan reflect business reality, & appraises current performance.
  • Help create choices and provide decision support to close performance gaps.
  • Leverage CTS insight to drive improvements across the division
  • Support working capital reduction programs
  • Support and drive supplier insight and initiatives
  • Building strong relationships across all Finance and Divisional teams
  • Inspiring great performance and fostering a motivated and collaborative team environment

The Ideal Candidate
This role will best suit an individual who enjoys working as part of a team, is well organised, pragmatic and a lateral thinker with an inquisitive mind who is motivated to make change for the better and, most importantly, puts our customers first.
You'll need to have demonstrated experience of:
  • Qualified Accountant (ACA/ACCA/CIMA)
  • Finance experience in driving strategic priorities in large complex organisations
  • Experience of engaging and working with senior business stakeholders
  • Highly evolved financial analysis skills
  • Shaping Strategy - Skilled
  • Commercial Awareness - Skilled
  • Communication - Skilled
  • Trust & Integrity - Understanding
  • Change Management - Skilled
  • Analysis & Insight- Skilled
Personal
  • Flexibility, ability to plan and organise, responsiveness, creativity, self-starter
  • Able to build solid working relationships with peers and senior leadership
  • Ability to demonstrate strong written, verbal communication and presentation skills to all levels of seniority and disciplines within the organisation

About The Company
Our vision here at Tesco is to become every customer's favourite way to shop, whether they are at home, out shopping, on the move, anywhere in the world.
Our core purpose is 'Serving Britain's shoppers a little better every day'.
Our business was built with a simple mission - to be the champion for customers, helping them to enjoy a better quality of life and an easier way of living. This hasn't changed. Customers want great products at great value which they can buy easily and it's our job to deliver this in the right way for them.
In the UK, we serve some 66 shoppers every second, so it's our goal to ensure every one of those customers experiences just a little better service on each visit.
We want our customers to be inspired and whatever they are looking for, we're finding bigger and better ways to provide it.
We need people who share our ambition to deliver for our customers; passionate and confident people willing to take the initiative and drive us forwards. In return we offer excitement, a great team, an excellent benefit package and significant career development opportunities.
If that sounds exciting then we'd love to hear from you.

Package Description
We offer excellent benefits that help make Tesco a great place to work. These include but aren't limited to:
  • An annual bonus scheme which you can achieve up to 3.5% of base salary
  • Colleague Clubcard (including a 2nd card for a family member) after 6 months service with 10% off most purchases at Tesco
  • Holiday starting at 25 days plus a personal day
  • A retirement savings plan - 4%-7.5% contribution rate
  • Life Assurance - 5 x contractual pay
  • Buy As You Earn Scheme
  • Save As You Earn Scheme
  • Deals & Discounts through Tesco including Tesco Mobile & Tesco Bank
  • Deals and Discounts through many other external businesses

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