Business Partnering & Commercial Finance Manager, Corporate Functions (9 month FTC)

Locations - London, Bristol or Birmingham

Hybrid working - 3 days in the office, 2 days working from home

About the role

As a Business Partnering and Commercial Finance Manager, you will be responsible for providing financial business partnering support to senior Consumer leaders, managing the budgeting, forecasting, and reporting of substantial OPEX across multiple functions. You will consolidate financial reporting and drive key programmes across the Consumer division while building strong relationships with directors and operational teams to ensure financial alignment with organizational strategy.

What you’ll be doing

• Act as Finance Business Partner to Consumer CFO, People & Culture Director, General Counsel Director and Strategy Director, providing strategic financial guidance and support.
• Manage budgeting, forecasting and monthly/quarterly management reporting of OPEX across Finance & Supply Chain, People & Culture, General Counsel and Strategy functions.
• Consolidate reporting, forecasting and budgeting for Consumer SG&A (£1.5bn Opex, £0.8bn TLC and c17,000 TLR), ensuring accuracy and alignment across all areas.
• Deliver clear and concise P&L updates to directors, highlighting key financial drivers, risks and recommended actions with appropriate context and insight.
• Support operational teams in managing spend in line with MTP and assist with purchase order processes and procurement activities.
• Lead and drive key TLC and TLR programmes across Consumer, ensuring effective implementation and value delivery.
• Review and sign-off on TLR roles for recruitment, ensuring business justification, appropriate business case and alignment with financial plans.
• Ensure all business activities are carried out in accordance with local legislative requirements and BT governance standards, safeguarding the organisation's integrity.
• Collaborate with offshore teams to ensure accuracy of month-end financial reporting and consolidated figures.

Essential Skills / Experience

• Qualified Accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent).
• Proven experience in finance business partnering to senior leaders.
• Demonstrated expertise in financial reporting, forecasting, and budgeting across complex organisations.

Desirable Skills / Experience

• Strong business evaluation and financial analysis skills with ability to identify root causes and solve problems.
• Excellent communication skills—translating complex financial information into clear, concise messaging for both financial and non-financial audiences.
• Advanced systems knowledge of consolidated planning, reporting systems, and financial information models.
• Ability to operate effectively in a complex, fast-paced, matrixed business environment managing multiple priorities.

Our Package

Tailored benefits make a real difference. That’s why we offer a comprehensive range to support your growth, wellbeing, and everyday life. You can design the package to suit you and your lifestyle.

Your core benefits include: 

• 10% on target annual bonus 
• Access to an online private GP 24/7 for you and your immediate family
• Market-leading paid carers leave with up to 2 weeks off
• Equalised maternity, paternity, and adoption leave – 18 weeks’ full pay and 8 weeks’ half pay 
• Discounted EE and BT products, including mobile and broadband 
• Market leading Pension scheme – 5% from you and 10% from us
• Holiday purchase scheme 

You can select additional benefits, including healthcare, dental, gym memberships and more when you’re ready.

At EE, we’re harnessing the power of technology to bring people together and make life better.

You’ll use your energy and ambition from similar roles where you’ve thrived, met goals, achieved targets, influenced others, or provided great service and you’ll already have the transferrable skills to shine here. You’ll take responsibility for delivering results and collaborate with your team to share ideas and celebrate success. We’ll give you all the training, tools, and support you need to build your confidence and achieve your targets. 

We understand that life doesn’t always follow a set schedule, so we help our people work flexibly – for example, allowing you to plan your own breaks or bank time off to make sure you don’t miss the moments that matter most. 

We have a singular culture that unites all our people: we are customer-first challengers, who are committed, clear and connected. Bring your energy, curiosity, and ambition – and we’ll match it with opportunity. Join us at EE and turn your potential into performance. 

[For corporate TA within Consumer]

EE is the UK’s largest mobile network and a core brand within BT Group’s Consumer unit. Many of our roles are employed by EE but work across a growing, multi‑brand Consumer environment – supporting customers across our family of brands, BT, EE and Plusnet.

You’ll benefit from EE’s strong people proposition, development opportunities and culture, while helping shape the future of consumer connectivity at scale.