Finance Manager, Gigabit

Locations - Bristol or London

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

About the role

The Gigabit programme is a critical part of Openreach’s contribution to the UK Government’s Project Gigabit initiative, designed to close the digital divide by bringing gigabit capable full fibre broadband to hard to reach communities across the UK.

Over the next five years, Openreach will invest close to £1bn delivering government funded and co funded fibre infrastructure, supporting the rollout of gigabit connectivity to hundreds of thousands of rural homes and businesses under a national framework agreement with Building Digital UK (BDUK). This work represents one of the largest and most complex digital infrastructure programmes in the UK, spanning multiple regions and delivery models.

The Gigabit Finance Manager plays a key role in supporting this nationally significant programme, providing high quality financial and commercial insight to senior stakeholders. The role is focused on enabling strong investment decisions, ensuring robust financial control, and driving improved commercial and delivery performance across a multi year, government funded portfolio.

What you’ll be doing

• Act as a trusted finance partner, translating complex data into clear, actionable insight
• Partner with operational, commercial and transformation teams to challenge and shape long‑term delivery plans
• Deliver financial insight across pace, cost and capacity trade‑offs to support decision making
• Own the monthly reporting, outlook and Medium‑Term Plan (MTP) with end‑to‑end accountability for performance
• Ensure strong linkage between operational drivers and financial outcomes, highlighting risks and opportunities
• Lead engagement with BDUK, providing accurate and timely monthly reporting and financial updates
• Act as the central finance interface to offshore support, ensuring timely, reviewed and approved inputs
• Identify financial risks and improvement opportunities, translating these into practical delivery actions
• Provide analysis to support optimal balance between direct labour and subcontractor capacity

Essential Skills / Experience

• Qualified Accountant (ACCA, CIMA or ACA)
• Strong organisational skills with previous experience managing multiple priorities and  financial projects simultaneously, often to tight and competing deadlines.
• Stakeholder management and communication experience, who can tell the story of Gigabit business performance to finance and non finance audiences at all levels, both internally and externally, tailoring insight, data and analysis to the right level of detail. both internally and externally, tailoring insight, data and analysis to the right level of detail.

Desirable Skills / Experience

• Strong accounting knowledge and commercial judgement, able to interpret contract terms into accurate accounting outcomes, effective working capital and cash flow management, and well informed commercial decisions.
• A practical problem solver, able to tackle complex and evolving challenges by applying judgement, experience and insight to identify solutions and provide clear direction.
• Trusted advisor and coach, providing guidance and specialist insight to colleagues within and beyond the immediate team, and helping to translate deep technical knowledge into practical operational application.
• Leads and champions outcomes, effectively balancing and managing conflicting priorities to drive progress and results across the programme.

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.

Openreach is the UK’s leading digital infrastructure business, responsible for building and maintaining the fixed network that connects millions of homes and businesses across the country. While wholly owned by BT Group, Openreach is a legally separate, independently governed business, with its own strategy and operating model. Openreach’s customers are the 600+ communications providers who sell phone, broadband and Ethernet services to UK homes and businesses.

Right now, Openreach is building the UK’s largest full fibre broadband network. It’s on track to reach more than 25 million premises by December 2026 and it’s laying the foundations for the country’s connectivity for decades to come. This is nationally significant work, supporting economic growth, regional development and everyday life for millions of people. 

Operating in a highly regulated environment, Openreach works closely with industry partners, governments and communities to deliver a network that’s reliable, fair and future ready.  We have a singular culture that unites all our people: we are customer-first challengers, who are committed, clear and connected. These behaviours unite us as one team to better deliver for our colleagues, our customers, our stakeholders and the country. Joining Openreach means playing a direct role in one of the UK’s most ambitious infrastructure programmes, with real purpose, independence and impact.