Finance Business Partner - Fresh Food

At Tesco, we believe in the power of spending more time together, face to face, than apart. So, during your working week, you can expect to spend 60% of your time in one of our office locations or local sites and the rest remotely. We also recognise that life looks a little different for each of us. Some people are at the start of their careers, some want the freedom to do the things they love. Others are going through life-changing moments like becoming a carer, nearing retirement, adapting to parenthood, or something else. That’s why at Tesco, we always welcome a conversation about flexible working. So, talk to us throughout your application about how we can support.

The success of Tesco is closely tied to the Fresh Food business, a £19bn division at the core of this role! In this position, you will oversee one of our key Fresh Categories (Bakery & Dairy), as well as manage waste within the commercial team, working closely with our colleagues on a day to day basis.

• Supporting and challenging category and supply chain teams on the drivers and drainers of a range of metrics both now and in the future. Developing a culture of true performance understanding – what is driving our performance, why and influencing action to be taken that drives continuous business improvement.
• Building a clear and accessible understanding of the key drivers of performance and maintaining a robust and comprehensive view of risks & opportunities.
• Provide financial understanding to commercial and supply chain business plans, supporting colleagues with the commercial challenges that we face as a retail business.
• Developing long term strategies side by side with business owners and laying the foundations today that will enable us to deliver our long term ambitions.
• Finding opportunities and driving actions that deliver these opportunities through insightful analysis.
• Contributing to the effectiveness of wider Finance Business Partner and FP&A teams across Product Finance and wider Tesco – building positive relationships and sharing the best ways of working

• An accountancy qualification (ACCA, ACA, CIMA or equivalent)
• Desire to make valuable contributions and to drive positive change
• Strong attention to detail and a curious mind
• To be excellent at building relationships with multiple partners
• Willingness and confidence to challenge other colleagues – many of whom with a high level of experience in their field
• Have an interest / passion about food and demonstrate a desire to think about our business from a customer perspective

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• Annual bonus scheme of up to 20% of base salary
• Holiday starting at 25 days plus a personal day (plus Bank holidays)
• Private medical insurance
• 26 weeks maternity and adoption leave (after 1 years’ service) at full pay, followed by 13 weeks of Statutory Maternity Pay or Statutory Adoption Pay, we also offer 4 weeks fully paid paternity leave
• Free 24/7 virtual GP service, Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) for you and your family, free access to a range of experts to support your mental wellbeing

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.

Diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I) at Tesco means that whoever you are and whatever your background, we always want you to feel represented and that you can be yourself at work. In short, we’re a place where Everyone’s Welcome. We’re proud to have been accredited Disability Confident Leader and we’re committed to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process. For further information on the accessibility support we can offer, please click here.

We’re a big business and we can offer a range of diverse full-time & part-time working patterns across our many business areas, which means that we can find something that works for you.  We work in a more blended pattern -combining office and remote working.  Our offices will continue to be where we connect, collaborate and innovate.