About the role

Operations Manager driving operational simplicity and efficiency in financial processes at BT Group, impacting budget and forecasting accuracy.

Responsibilities

Budget Management: you will ensure all resources are allocated and accounted for, in line with available budget, effective change control, risk identification and management, and providing effective and accurate reporting and analysis - critical to driving business decisions.
Accurate Forecasting: You hold the reins of precision, ensuring monthly forecasts align with predetermined budgets. Your close collaboration with unit leads senior managers and project managers guarantees the quality and reliability of these forecasts.
Effective Billing: You are tasked with the responsibility of ensuring that units you support wholly and efficiently recover costs in accordance with approved funding.
Comprehensive Financial Reporting: Through close collaboration with Project Managers, you produce financial reports that are easy to understand, upholding the highest standards of accuracy.
Proactive Risk Management: you continuously identify, track, manage, and report financial risks, issues, and opportunities, thereby fostering financial resilience.
Business Operations – the role will require you to lead, or support on any number of business operations initiatives which may or may not be commercial in nature.

Problem solving – you will be required to identify issues and deliver solutions
Strong track record of managing budgets
Ability to demonstrate specific opportunities to transform and simplify a business approach to managing finances
Creating and delivering reports which are well used, timely and appropriate
Risk management – you need to call out and manage risks, and deliver good and bad news
Ability to identify problems, or opportunities for improvement, and deliver effective solutions
Storytelling with data: strong skills in building the case for change, drawing on data and analytical techniques where appropriate, and communicating this to business audiences.
Organised & detail orientated –strong understanding of incoming funding and how you manage the spend/costs throughout the year.
Stakeholder management – as the person responsible for ensuring that we meet scorecard KPI’s you’ll need to work closely with other teams and challenge where necessary.
The role will be aligned to support a number of units and you will be the trusted commercial partner / SME for those units.
Reporting – creation of reports that are useful, accurate and unambiguous.
Commercial acumen: Knowledgeable in business strategy and the drivers of organisational performance, financial literacy (e.g. business KPIs, business cases)

Annual On target bonus 10% (personal and company multipliers)
BT Pension scheme; minimum 5% employee contribution, BT contribution 10%
Life Assurance
Direct share scheme
Exclusive colleague discounts on our latest and greatest BT broadband packages
50% off EE mobile pay monthly or SIM only plans and 50% discount for friends and family on EE SIM only plans
My Discounts gives colleagues access to unbeatable savings on everyday purchases at hundreds of retailers
Discounted EE TV including TNT Sport and the NOW Entertainment membership
Great support for working parents including pay whilst on maternity, adoptive, and paternity leave
Option to join the Healthcare Cash Plan or other benefits such as dental insurance, gym memberships etc.
25 days annual leave (not including bank holidays), increasing with service with buy holiday option 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.
Volunteering days so you can give back to your local community
Brand new electric vehicle salary sacrifice arrangement, known as ‘My EV’