Finance Manager - Technology

Overview

We have an exciting opportunity for a Finance Manager to join the Technology Finance team here at Tesco. In this role, you will act as a key Business Partner to the Technology leadership team, supporting the Group\’s Technology function to optimise investments. You will engage with various teams across the business, working at the core of new propositions within the Tesco Group. Your main responsibility will be to ensure a robust understanding of the financial implications of activities being delivered and their impact on the Group\’s overall performance, particularly in an environment where scale and resilience are crucial. This broad-ranging finance role is ideal for a proactive finance professional who excels at interacting with and influencing senior stakeholders, and who has experience driving change.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with the Technology Leadership team and FP&A to drive value through an integrated strategic and annual planning process. Support prioritization reviews, bottom-up planning, key assumptions, and alignment of capital and operational spending.
• Serve as a financial advisor to technology leaders, providing insights on how technology can drive business value.
• Continuously evaluate the financial management of technology across the business to ensure best-in-class practices, considering the pace of technological change. Evaluate, challenge, and report on the overall value creation of the technology portfolio.
• Communicate financial insights and technology investment outcomes to senior executives within both Finance and Technology.
• Oversee the financial management of a broad portfolio of investments, including numerous projects across delivery programs and priorities. Lead management of key metrics, including capitalization rates and resource allocation between projects and operations/support through a balanced portfolio.
• Review and challenge business cases for technology investments, ensuring incremental technology spend intended to generate savings elsewhere in the business is identified and justified.
• Work with Control and FP&A to deliver insightful Management Accounts and Director Packs, ensuring good control of business areas with a detailed understanding of risks and opportunities.
• Provide ad-hoc financial modelling and analysis to support innovation and business decision-making. Collaborate with Control & FP&A to facilitate the Technology Approvals Group in managing Capital and Operational investments and work with the Investment Committee to ensure streamlined processes.
• Identify and implement efficiency savings across the cost base, promoting a culture of cost consciousness.
• Drive process improvements and simplify the finance operating model, working with finance teams across the end-to-end capital lifecycle.

You will need

• ACCA, ACA, CIMA qualified (or equivalent)
• Strong data interpretation and analysis skills
• Experience with Capex analysis and project-based financial assessments
• Ability to drive the finance agenda and work effectively with senior colleagues
• Ability to communicate complex financial data and analysis in a clear, concise and persuasive manner to both financial and non-financial audiences
• Understanding of Technology function is an advantage

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What’s in it for you

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• 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 year\’s service) at full pay, followed by 13 weeks of Statutory Maternity Pay or Statutory Adoption Pay; 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

Our vision at Tesco is to become every customer\’s favourite way to shop, whether they are at home or out on the move. Our core purpose is \’Serving our customers, communities and planet a little better every day\’. Serving means more than a transactional relationship with our customers. It means acting as a responsible and sustainable business for all stakeholders, for the communities we are part of and for the planet.

We are proud to have an inclusive culture at Tesco where everyone truly feels able to be themselves. At Tesco, we not only celebrate diversity, but recognise the value and opportunity it brings. We\’re committed to creating a workplace where differences are valued, and make sure that all colleagues are given the same opportunities. We\’re a big business with diverse working patterns and many business areas which means that we can find something that works for you. Everyone is welcome at Tesco.

We have recently announced that we will be moving towards a more blended working week – combining office and remote working. Our offices will continue to be where we connect, collaborate and innovate. Please talk to us about how this can work for you.

Note

NOTE: Should you be successful in your application, your offer will be subject to and conditional upon you providing your bank account details on your agreed start date.

We\’re proud to have been accredited Disability Confident Leader and we\’re committed to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process. For further information on the accessibility support we can offer, please visit Tesco Careers accessibility page.