Finance Business Partner - Online & Convenience

The key purpose of this role is to act as the primary expert and interface into Finance and provide insight, challenge and strategic support to the Online & Convenience Leadership Teams. To help drive the business forward by leveraging financial and commercial expertise and understanding. 
To be the business advocate by focusing beyond finance boundary, looking forward with a view to challenge and influence decisions. To be the strategic partner by creating and driving value opportunities to the management team.

• Working side by side with the Online & Convenience Leadership Teams to pro actively challenge and influence strategic projects for the function in order to enhance decision making and drive value creation for the business
• Be accountable for providing relevant insight into business performance of specific projects or deliverables to the Online & Convenience Leadership Teams 
• Be responsible for forecasting and managing project deliverables within Online & Convenience
• Constructively challenge and recommend changes to the business underpinned by sound financial expertise. 
• Identifying and pro-actively highlighting risks and works to mitigate issues. 
• Helping create choices and provide decision support to close performance gaps.
• Overlaying commercial acumen on analysis performed by TBS (Tesco Business Services) team to drive insights and decision support. 
• Leading performance review meetings for projects within their function with support of TBS team (when required) and the business
• Reviewing, adjusting and communicating strategic and operational plans to the relevant commercial and operations teams.
• Facilitating knowledge management- sharing best practice both within finance and with the business.
• Participating in business partnering community across finance.
• Adhering to and operatingwithin the internal control guidelines to safeguard companies interests.
• Championing cost conscious culture.
• Supporting function initiatives to drive efficiency within Tesco organisation
• Inspiring great performance from TBS by supporting and encouraging best practice

• Finance experience in driving strategic priorities in large complex organisations 
• Experience of engaging and working with senior business stakeholders
• Previous experience in financial analysis
• Previous experience in retail operations financial analysis
• Effective team management
• Qualified Accountant ACA/ACCA/CIMA desirable
• Retail business understanding
• Very effective communication skills
• Microsoft Office skills(Excel, Powerpoint, Word)
• SQL desirable
• Understanding of:
  • Accounting and / or financial modeling;
  • Business ethics;
  • Retail operations

We offer excellent benefits that help make Tesco a great place to work. These include but aren’t limited to:

• Competitive Salary
• Life Assurance
• Pension Scheme*
• Bonus Scheme*
• Colleague Clubcard (including a 2nd card for a family member)
• Annual leave starting at 23 days
• Save As You Earn Scheme*

*Entry requirements and rules of the scheme apply

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. Through initiatives like the Tesco Community Fund, our association with Children’s Health Foundation, our partnership with FoodCloud and our Stronger Starts programme, we have supported over 20,000 community groups, raised over €6 million for medical equipment, and provided almost 15 million meals nationwide, to those living in food insecurity.

Tesco has operated in the Irish retail market since 1997, and with 152 stores nationwide, it employs over 13,000 people in cities and towns around Ireland, supporting almost 45,000 jobs directly and indirectly. It partners with over 490 Irish suppliers - of which almost three-quarters are small and medium enterprises - which in turn supports almost 14,000 farming families around Ireland.

We work closely with suppliers across Ireland who are dedicated to making the best products for our customers and this is reflected in the numerous awards our products have won over the years including Blás Na hÉireann, World Steak Challenge and Great Taste Awards.

We are proud to have an inclusive culture at Tesco where everyone truly feels able to be themselves. It is embedded in our values: we treat people how they want to be treated.   At Tesco, we not only celebrate diversity, but recognise the value and opportunity it brings.  We always want our colleagues to feel they can be themselves at work and we are committed to helping them be at their best.

We are building an inclusive workplace, a place to actively celebrate the cultures, personalities and preferences of our colleagues – who in turn help to build the success of our business and reflect the diversity of the communities we serve. We’re proud sponsors of the Dublin and Cork Pride festivals. We’ve taken steps to ensure our stores are places where everyone feels welcome to shop too, with colleagues all trained to support those with a visible or hidden disability through the Sunflower Lanyard programme.

Tesco has been certified as a Great Place to Work for five consecutive years and has also been recognised as a Best Workplace for Women in Ireland.

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 to about how this can work for you.