Finance Business Partner

Tesco Ireland are currently seeking to recruit and appoint a finance business partner to join the Finance Team. This business partner will support Distribution, Shrink and Store Expenses.

The successful candidate will act as the primary expert for their area and interface into Finance while providing insight, challenge and strategic support to the Retail Leadership Team. They will help drive the business forward by leveraging financial and commercial expertise and understanding.  The successful candidate will be a strategic partner by creating and driving value opportunities to the Finance Leadership team.

• Working with the Retail Leadership Team to pro-actively challenge and influence strategic projects for the function in order to enhance decision making and drive value creation for the business.
• Accountable for providing relevant insight into business performance of specific projects or deliverables to the Retail Leadership Team
• Responsible for forecasting and managing project deliverables within your given area
• Constructively challenge and recommend changes to the business underpinned by sound financial expertise
• Identifies and pro-actively highlights risks and works to mitigate issues
• Overlays commercial acumen on analysis performed by TBS (Tesco Business Services) team to drive insights and decision support
• Leads performance review meetings for projects within their function with support of TBS team (when required) and the business
• Review, adjust and communicate strategic and operational plans to the relevant commercial and operations teams
• Facilitates knowledge management sharing best practice both within finance and with the business
• Participates in business partnering community across finance.
• Adhere to and operates within the internal control guidelines to safeguard companies interests
• Champions cost conscious culture and supports function initiatives to drive efficiency within Tesco organisation
• Inspires 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 (nice to have)

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

• Competitive Salary
• Private healthcare
• 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 here at Tesco is to become every customer's favourite way to shop, whether they are at home, out shopping, on the move, anywhere in the world.

Our core purpose is ‘Serving Irelands” shoppers a little better every day’.

Our business was built with a simple mission – to be the champion for customers, helping them to enjoy a better quality of life and an easier way of living. This hasn't changed. Customers want great products at great value which they can buy easily and it's our job to deliver this in the right way for them.

We want our customers to be inspired and whatever they are looking for, we’re finding bigger and better ways to provide it.

We need people who share our ambition to deliver for our customers; passionate and confident people willing to take the initiative and drive us forwards. In return we offer excitement, a great team, an excellent benefit package and significant career development opportunities.

If that sounds exciting, then we'd love to hear from you.