Finance Business Partner - Property & Retail Partnerships

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 Retail & Property 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 with the Retail & Property 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.
• Accountable for providing relevant insight into business performance of specific projects or deliverables to the Retail & Property Leadership Teams
• Forecasting and managing project deliverables within Property & Retail Partnerships
• 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 operating within the internal control guidelines to safeguard the company’s 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*
• Our Virtual GP service provides free and confidential access to an online GP through video GP consultations, and online prescription service for colleagues. The service is also available to families of colleagues who live at the same address for a reduced cost.
• 24/7 access to our Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) for you and family members for in the moment emotional support along with free access to a range of wellbeing services supporting you under our new Wellbeing First approach of Body, Mind and Life.
• Colleague Clubcard offering 10% discount across stores and online, with 15% discount weekends once a month (Friday to Sunday), and 20% off twice a year. There is also 20% off F&F clothing, all year long, these various discounts can be extended to a family member with a 2^nd Clubcard available.*
• 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 21,000 community groups, raised over €7.5 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 170 stores nationwide, we employ over 13,000 people in cities and towns around Ireland, supporting almost 45,000 jobs directly and indirectly. We partner with over 500 Irish suppliers - of which almost three-quarters are small and medium enterprises - which in turn supports almost 13,000 farming families around Ireland. Tesco is the single largest buyer of Irish food and drink in the world, buying €1.6 Billion a year; more than any other single country in the European Union, more than even the USA which you perceive as a massive buyer of Irish food.  

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 have embraced a 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.

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’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.

We’re a big business with diverse working patterns and many business areas which means that we can find something that works for you. 

Tesco is committed to celebrating diversity and everyone is welcome at Tesco. We're committed to providing a fully inclusive recruitment process, allowing candidates the opportunity to thrive and inform us of any reasonable adjustments they may require. For further information on the accessibility support we can offer, please click http://roi.tesco-careers.com/accessibility/

How can I let Tesco know I need additional support?

Please let us know you need additional support by emailing tescoireland.recruitment@tesco.ie

This will allow us to understand more about you and how we can best support you through the recruitment process.