Commercial Finance Analyst

Description:

Commercial Finance Analyst

Contract - Initial 12 months

Reading/ Hybrid working

MBNL is jointly owned by EE and Three, two of the UK's leading and most innovative mobile operators. Established in 2007 as the industry's first network-sharing joint venture, MBNL's mission is to provide best-in-class mobile infrastructure services to EE and Three for serving their tens of millions of customers in the UK. Working at MBNL means being part of a team where you feel connected, valued, and supported.

The Role:

Working as part of the Commercial Finance Team, this role is responsible for all aspects of the financial management for the Buy-In programme and will support with financial management of the Transmission programme. The role includes management & financial accounting, business partnering, decision support, reporting, contract management, budgeting, and forecasting.

This is a hybrid role and will be based in our Reading office 2 days per week.

What you will do:

Be the finance subject matter expert on Transmission and Buy-In areas.
Be responsible for production of 5-year plans, reforecasting, requisite analysis.
Take accountability for owning month end processes for your designated area. This includes journal posting, balance sheet reconciliations, exec pack creation and other analysis.
Collaborate effectively with other business areas, suppliers and shareholders taking the lead in driving conversations forward.
Support the Senior Commercial Finance Analyst in managing budgets more than £100m to deliver a trusted Business Partnering relationship with stakeholders internally and across shareholder and supplier organisations.
OPEX and CAPEX management.
Identify cost savings opportunities and drive/implement the processes to achieve these.
Work with the contract managers and procurement teams to ensure the effective financial management of Operations, Deployment, and other contracts as well as driving cost saving initiatives.What we are looking for:

Qualified accountant
Strong Excel and financial modelling skills
Exceptional attention to detail and highly analytical
Delivers high quality work by the deadline
Able to influence and negotiate to meet their needs Nice to have:

Telco experience
Experience of IFS MBNL - building strength through inclusion.

At MBNL we embrace equality, diversity, and inclusion. People are at the heart of everything we do and collectively we strive to create an environment where everyone can flourish. By fostering an inclusive environment, we are championing each other's uniqueness.

Inclusion & Diversity within MBNL will unlock innovation and continue to evolve how we work, to help us deliver world class infrastructure for our Shareholders and their customers.

We will work creatively to offer flexible working arrangements, (like non-standard hours, part-time, remote working). We want to support you to build your career without sacrificing your personal priorities.

MBNL are proud recipients of the Armed Forces Covenant Gold Award, and Disability Confident accredited.

Project People is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy