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Senior Finance Manager - GSS
1 Braham Street, London, United Kingdom
This role can be based in Birmingham, Bristol, London or Manchester.
Closing Date: Tuesday 2nd September 2025
Why this role matters
The role plays a significant part in ensuring the Business success of UK Sales & Commercial, delivering financial planning and strategy to shape commercial decision making that enhances the sustainable profitable revenue growth across a range of products and services, on both the medium and long term.
The role involves ownership of the end-to-end financial processes and strategy for Global Secure Solutions (GSS), partnering with the GSS Director to provide financial insight and guidance to support effective business strategy development, decision making and performance management.
You will hold the GSS Senior Leadership Team to account to deliver the Sales and profit targets, using financial data and commercial insight to drive action and optimise productivity and performance – both tactically and strategically.
What you'll be doing
- Business partner the GSS Director to provide financial insight and guidance to support effective strategy.
- Lead a large finance team, ensuring clear accountabilities are set and priorities are aligned.
- Play a key leadership role in setting and shaping the future strategic direction of the Business, ensuring they provide financial leadership in the translation od strategy into practical solutions and day to day working practices.
- Oversee and review forecast, and budget details and provide detailed feedback and insight to the business on financial performance and anticipated risks.
- Consider risk, regulation and uncertainty in all short and mid-term decisions and ensure that key risks are identified and managed in line with Group Risk Policy, establishing clear accountabilities and an appropriate risk culture.
- Lead on ensuring right investment decisions are made across the business, ensuring that the decisions and impacts are clearly understood.
- Mentor, coach, and/or manage experienced professionals to develop current and future team capabilities and ensure performance.
- Lead the implementation of continuous improvement opportunities to enhance the efficiency and accuracy of financial reporting processes and to resolve data issues impacting productivity and compliance.
The skills you'll need
- Qualified Accountant (ACA/ACCA/CIMA or equivalent).
- Significant Leadership and stakeholder experience, working within a highly matrixed environment.
- Experience of working with Commercial teams to deliver unit financials.
- Ability to interpret financials into meaningful insight, to inform decision making.
- Be willing to voice an opinion and look at the ‘art of the possible’. Must be able to create a clear vision, delivering against key metrics
- Demonstrate an extremely high level of analytical capability.
Benefits
- 15% on target bonus
- Health Care
- Car Allowance
- BT Pension scheme, minimum 5% Employee contribution, BT contribution 10%
- From January 2025, equal family leave: receive 18 weeks at full pay, 8 weeks at half pay and 26 weeks at the statutory rate. It’s for all parents, no matter how your family is made up.
- Enhanced women’s health support: including help with menopause symptoms, cancer screenings, period care and more.
- 25 days annual leave (not including bank holidays), increasing with service
- 24/7 private virtual GP appointments for UK colleagues
- 2 weeks carer’s leave
- World-class training and development opportunities
- Option to join BT Shares Saving schemes.
About us
BT Group was the world’s first telco and our heritage in the sector is unrivalled. As home to several of the UK’s most recognised and cherished brands – BT, EE, Openreach and Plusnet, we have always played a critical role in creating the future, and we have reached an inflection point in the transformation of our business.
Over the next two years, we will complete the UK’s largest and most successful digital infrastructure project – connecting more than 25 million premises to full fibre broadband. Together with our heavy investment in 5G, we play a central role in revolutionising how people connect with each other.
While we are through the most capital-intensive phase of our fibre investment, meaning we can reward our shareholders for their commitment and patience, we are absolutely focused on how we organise ourselves in the best way to serve our customers in the years to come. This includes radical simplification of systems, structures, and processes on a huge scale. Together with our application of AI and technology, we are on a path to creating the UK’s best telco, reimagining the customer experience and relationship with one of this country’s biggest infrastructure companies.
Change on the scale we will all experience in the coming years is unprecedented. BT Group is committed to being the driving force behind improving connectivity for millions and there has never been a more exciting time to join a company and leadership team with the skills, experience, creativity, and passion to take this company into a new era.
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.
We will also offer reasonable adjustments for the selection process if required, so please do not hesitate to inform us.
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