Finance Lead

Description:

Join us and you’ll be at the heart of change. That means building responsibly, investing sustainably and creating opportunities that last.

We’re not just expanding connectivity; we’re reimagining what a connected nation looks like. With £11bn invested in 5G and digital infrastructure, your work will directly power businesses, services, and communities across the country.

You’ll work on real challenges, with real impact, across every corner of the country. Wherever you join us, whatever your role, you’ll be helping to build a future that works better for everyone.

We move at pace, because what we’re building matters – and we’re learning as we go. We’re proud of the progress we’ve made, but we’re just getting started.

Join our UK Finance team, where we’re continually building and enhancing our network, connecting millions of people and businesses across the country. Be part of the team that makes it all happen – simplifying, automating, and bringing better connectivity than ever before, with giga-fast speed, to our customers.

Job Description What you’ll do We’re creating something special. We are joining forces to create the biggest mobile network provider in the UK. Through our collective strengths and talents, we will transform customers’ experience and create a best-in-class network for coverage, connectivity, and reliability, delivering greater value and more choice for the nation than ever before.

There are very few moments in our careers where we can feel the ground shifting beneath us, where we can sense that something bigger than we’ve known before is taking shape. We’re not just building a company. We’re going to build a culture, a legacy and a future to be proud of. This will require remarkable leadership and together we can set the standard in the industry and beyond for both customer and employee experience, in what it is a career-defining opportunity.

This role is accountable for the Financial and Management accounting VodafoneThree’s Towerco arrangements with Cellnex, overseeing £0.3bn annual spend. It ensures all financial accounting, management accounting and financial transactions with Cellnex are undertaken accurately and in a timely fashion.

Key Responsibilities:

• Leading on annual and interim audits from a Towerco perspective
• Financial accounting in respect of all Towerco contracts for the purposes of local and group accounts
• Accountable for monthly and quarterly accounting and reporting, including providing variance analysis, creating journals, and answering queries from the FP&A finance team
• Gain a deep understanding of the respective contractual agreements
• Supporting commercial discussions between 3UK and Cellnex
• Ownership of the quarterly forecasting and annual budget process for Towerco ensuring delivery to a high standard of timeliness and accuracy
• Leading on and agreeing quarterly invoicing with Cellnex and managing receivables, payables, recharges and cashflow impacts in liaison with treasury

Qualifications Who are you

• Qualified accountant with at least 5 Years PQE (ACA, ACCA or CIMA)
• Financial accounting experience is a must and ideally, previous roles to additionally include Management Accounting and Business Partnering experience
• Experience with tools like Oracle, SmartView are advantageous
• Strong communications skills to deal with individuals / teams within and external to the organisation
• Experience of dealing with significant 3rd party partner's would be helpful