About the role
We’re looking for a Finance Business Partner to join our fantastic Technology Finance team! This dynamic role is ideal for a proactive professional skilled in influencing senior colleagues and motivating change. You’ll work closely with Technology leaders, helping them optimise investments and bring impactful initiatives to life. By offering strategic financial insights, you’ll ensure a clear understanding of how our Technology projects contribute to Tesco’s performance and growth. Join us at the heart of progressive projects where scale, resilience, and innovation come together to drive success across Tesco Group
Tesco Technology is a team of over 5,000 colleagues across Europe, the UK, and Bangalore. As a key player in Tesco’s success, Technology drives our industry-leading tech and data capabilities, supporting everything from asset replacement programmes to innovative projects that shape the future of retail. This work not only strengthens our core functions but also supports strategic goals across Tesco’s global footprint. Every day, the Technology team upholds the operational stability vital to our business.
You will be responsible for
* Working with Technology Leadership team and FP&A to drive value through an integrated Strategic and Annual plan. Supporting prioritisation reviews, key bottom up planning and assumptions, and alignment of capital and operational spend
* Act as a financial advisor to technology leaders, providing insights into how technology can drive business value
* Continuing to evaluate how we financially manage technology across the business to ensure this remains best in class considering the pace of change within technology, including evaluating, challenging, and reporting on overall value creation of the total technology portfolio
* Communicating financial insights and technology investment outcomes to senior executives from Finance and Technology,
* Driving the financial management of the overall portfolio of investments across a portfolio comprising a significant number of individual investment projects spanning multiple delivery programmes and priorities. This includes understanding & leading the business in the management of metrics including capitalisation rates, allocation of resource between projects and operations/support through a balanced portfolio
* Reviewing and challenging cases for Technology investments, ensuring the incremental spend in Technology to save money elsewhere in the business is appropriately identified
* Working effectively with Control and FP&A to deliver insightful Management Accounts and Director Packs for the leadership to ensure good controls of their areas with detailed risks and opportunities
* Delivering ad hoc financial modelling and analysis to support innovation and business decision making, working with Control & FP&A
* Identifying & delivering efficiency savings across the cost base and promoting cost consciousness culture
* Drive improvements and simplification of processes and finance operating model, working with finance teams across the end to end capital life cycle
You will need
* Accountancy qualification (ACCA, ACA, CIMA or equivalent)
* Strong data interpretation and analysis skills alongside commercial savviness
* Experience with Capex analysis and project-based financial assessments
* Ability to drive the finance agenda and work effectively with senior colleagues
* Resilience & willingness to challenge
* Ability to communicate complex financial data and analysis in a clear, concise and persuasive manner to both financial and non-financial audiences.
* Understanding of a Technology function
* Having done a FP&A or commercial Finance role before would be an advantage
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What’s in it for you
We’re all about the little helps. That’s why we make sure our Tesco colleague benefits package takes care of you – both in and out of work. Click Here to find out more!
* Annual bonus scheme of up to 20% of base salary
* Holiday starting at 25 days plus a personal day (plus Bank holidays)
* Private medical insurance
* 26 weeks maternity and adoption leave (after 1 years’ service) at full pay, followed by 13 weeks of Statutory Maternity Pay or Statutory Adoption Pay, we also offer 6 weeks fully paid paternity leave
* Free 24/7 virtual GP service, Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) for you and your family, free access to a range of experts to support your mental wellbeing
About us
Tesco has become a market leader by doing the little things that really matter for our customers and colleagues.
It’s part of what makes Tesco such a great place to work, and we’re proud to have been accredited as one of Britain’s Top Employers again this year.
We're the UK's number one retailer and we pride ourselves on offering a great shopping experience. We are passionate about our food, merchandise and services and will always try to get things right for our customers.
But did you know we also offer great job opportunities? With stores, distribution centres and offices across the UK, and a vast variety of roles, we are always looking for people who have a hunger to work with customers and colleagues across our exciting business.
We believe in treating each other with respect and giving everyone an equal opportunity to get on. It's our people that make the difference every day - helping us make a difference for our customers
Should you be successful in your application, your offer will be subject to and conditional upon you providing your bank account details before your agreed start date.
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