About The Role
The Gigabit Finance Manager plays a key role in supporting this nationally significant programme, providing high‑quality financial and commercial insight to senior stakeholders. The role is focused on enabling strong investment decisions, ensuring robust financial control, and driving improved commercial and delivery performance across a multi‑year, government funded portfolio.
Responsibilities
* Act as a trusted finance partner, translating complex data into clear, actionable insight.
* Partner with operational, commercial and transformation teams to challenge and shape long‑term delivery plans.
* Deliver financial insight across pace, cost and capacity trade‑offs to support decision‑making.
* Own the monthly reporting, outlook and Medium‑Term Plan (MTP) with end‑to‑end accountability for performance.
* Ensure strong linkage between operational drivers and financial outcomes, highlighting risks and opportunities.
* Lead engagement with BDUK, providing accurate and timely monthly reporting and financial updates.
* Act as the central finance interface to offshore support, ensuring timely, reviewed and approved inputs.
* Identify financial risks and improvement opportunities, translating these into practical delivery actions.
* Provide analysis to support optimal balance between direct labour and subcontractor capacity.
Essential Skills / Experience
* Qualified Accountant (ACCA, CIMA or ACA).
* Strong organisational skills with previous experience managing multiple priorities and financial projects simultaneously, often to tight and competing deadlines.
* Stakeholder management and communication experience, able to tell the story of Gigabit business performance to finance and non‑finance audiences at all levels, both internally and externally.
Desirable Skills / Experience
* Strong accounting knowledge and commercial judgement, able to interpret contract terms into accurate accounting outcomes, effective working capital and cash‑flow management, and well‑informed commercial decisions.
* A practical problem‑solver, able to tackle complex and evolving challenges by applying judgement, experience and insight to identify solutions and provide clear direction.
* Trusted advisor and coach, providing guidance and specialist insight to colleagues within and beyond the immediate team, and helping to translate deep technical knowledge into practical operational application.
* Leads and champions outcomes, effectively balancing and managing conflicting priorities to drive progress and results across the programme.
Benefits
Tailored benefits make a real difference. The core benefits include:
* 10% on target annual bonus
* Access to an online private GP 24/7 for you and your immediate family
* Market‑leading paid carers leave with up to 2 weeks off
* Equalised maternity, paternity and adoption leave – 18 weeks full pay and 8 weeks half pay
* Discounted EE and BT products, including mobile and broadband
* Market‑leading pension scheme – 5% from you and 10% from us
* Holiday purchase scheme
You can select additional benefits, including healthcare, dental, gym memberships and more when you’re ready.
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