Senior Planning and Reporting Manager

Salary - Salary is from £87,840 + annual bonus & benefits Work Level - WL2 Location - Edinburgh, Permanent Office Attendance - Our roles are hybrid; however, you should be able to travel to our Edinburgh office, 2 days per week for this position. Closing Date - Applications close 19th June at 5pm We deal in the personal - from pet insurance for your best friend, and home insurance for peace of mind, to motor insurance for your dream car or travel money for that trip you’ve worked hard for. And that means we always work with heart.​ Whether we’re helping our customers or looking after our people, you’ll find there’s a warmth and friendliness to everything we do. ​ We’re looking for a Senior Planning & Reporting Manager (Financial Planning & Analysis function) to join our Insurance Money and Services team. Insurance and Money Services is a newly formed business within Tesco Group, with a remit to provide Tesco customers with great products across everyday Finance needs such as Insurance and Travel money. Given this is a newly formed business, this role will provide the opportunity to stand up the Planning & Reporting team and outputs with the remit of providing an expert oversight of IMS financials for Executive and Tesco Group performance discussions. You’ll have exposure to several Executive stakeholders in this role as well as playing a pivotal role in the wider Finance function. The role will focus on ensuring the P&R team deliver monthly Exec reporting, forecasting and insight to inform the financial impact of strategic decision making as well as setting the broader team development and alignment. A key outcome of this role is helping to shape the Finance service offering and support needed for a fit for purpose finance function in the go forward business, ensuring the team structure and outputs best fit the needs of the business. There aren’t many times in someone’s career where the opportunity exists to be part of something new as well as being able to put your own stamp on the team recruitment and responsibilities. The IMS business also has a growth strategy that is fully supported by Tesco Group meaning that any individual should come with a keen growth mindset and focus on delivering business goals in a forward-looking business. This role will lead the Planning & Reporting team and will be a key member of the Commercial Finance leadership team as well as supporting the broader Finance Function. Key stakeholders will include the Head of Commercial Finance, Chief Financial Officer along with the Product Finance teams and the relevant Business Executive. This role will best suit someone who can demonstrate an ambition to grow and deliver business outcomes. In doing this, the opportunity to put your own stamp on the outputs of the team and service offering is available along with being involved in broader finance and business leadership decision making. * Lead the P&R team in order to manage the P&L & deliver monthly MI and other ad hoc reports to ExCo, Board and Group Finance. * Lead the LTP and Rolling Forecast processes, setting timetable & cascading requirements, challenging the business area submissions ensuring deadlines met and plans delivered to the required standard. * Manage the relationship with Investor Relations and Internal Communications to ensure effective delivery of quarterly external results announcements. * Demonstrate broad knowledge of products to enable the provision of challenge & oversight to reporting produced in the team ensuring that content continues to remain relevant, insightful and adds value in supporting key strategic and other decisions at ExCo and Board. * Build strong relationships with key stakeholders, primarily Decision Support teams, Financial Control and key Group colleagues (Group Finance & Investor Relations). * Lead & coach the team to ensure that they deliver effectively against the priorities and continue to develop both their technical and business skills. * Pro-actively identify and manage the risks within my area, ensuring they are within the Bank’s risk appetite tolerance and that relevant legislation and Bank policies are complied with. We need you to have * Professional accountancy qualification (minimum +7 years qualified experience). * Experience of providing concise, insightful financial reporting, analysis and MI to senior executives. * Highly proficient communicator across all levels of an organisation * Track record of leading a team of finance professionals to deliver high quality financial reporting. And if you have any of these, even * Experience in Insurance or Financial Services. * Experience of setting up new teams * Expert Excel & PowerPoint skills. * Demonstrable experience of being able to quickly form networks and hit the ground running. We don’t expect you to tick every box, and if you feel you hit most of the brief, it’s worth exploring to further develop your career here with us. What’s in it for you * Prepare for your retirement with our colleague pension scheme. * Private Medical Insurance (WL2+) and virtual GP Service you and your family 365 days a year. * Performance related annual bonus. * Indulge in a generous holiday allowance with a minimum of 7.2 weeks, with the opportunity to buy more. * Embrace the benefits of our Colleague Clubcard, enjoy a 10% discount that increase to 15% every payday (worth up to 2K). As an added perk, we’ll give you a second card to share with someone else. * Take part in our Buy as you Earn and Save as your Earn share schemes. Everyone’s welcome We want all our colleagues to always feel welcome and be themselves. We’re committed to building a more inclusive workplace and celebrating everything that makes colleagues unique, and value the richness and diversity this brings to our business. A more diverse business helps us deliver on our purpose to serve our customers, communities, and planet a little better every day. Additional Information Role Alignment Following the announcement regarding Tesco's [1] strategic partnership with Barclays, this role will support our Insurance and Money Services team and will remain with Tesco. Interviews Interviews are expected to be held from w/c 17th June. References Visible links 1. https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.tescoplc.com%2Ftesco-agrees-long-term-strategic-partnership-with-barclays%2F&data=05%7C02%7CTricia.A.Geraghty%40tescobank.com%7Cd1efc4e05ccd40d58e8008dc4a6f147d%7Cbce3f16a29b1444aafdea7b86e45a778%7C0%7C0%7C638467088141762777%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=gAcXajC43mwBi%2BP8j5DKUlpu3ciPiaj%2F1z%2BPczjwLIg%3D&reserved=0