Finance Business Partner - Large Stores

As a Finance Business Partner (Large Stores), you will play a pivotal role in driving performance across the full breadth of the P&L. You’ll identify opportunities to grow market share, unlock operational efficiencies, and support the development and delivery of new store propositions. Whether it's analysing performance, influencing strategic decisions, or partnering with stakeholders across the business, your insight will help ensure every pound counts.

You will be responsible for:

1. Co-piloting Regional Directors to drive business performance

Acting as a trusted business expert across Sales, Payroll, and cost lines, supporting budgeting, forecasting, and profitability.
Applying commercial acumen to analysis provided by FP&A teams to generate actionable insights and decision support.
Constructively challenging the business and recommending changes, grounded in strong financial expertise and operational understanding.
Leading performance conversations with Regional Directors and other P&L owners to drive meaningful actions and plans.

2. Driving performance across the full breadth of KPIs (Customer, Colleague, Operational, Financial)

Leading and coaching financial performance improvement across the region, focusing on key initiatives such as the Big 6, Cost Convergence, and Profitability.
Building capability within regional teams to effectively manage financial challenges and KPIs.
Communicating strategic and operational plans clearly to relevant teams.
Understanding localised complexities and cost impacts, and mitigating these through compelling financial rationale.
Collaborating with FP&A to ensure plans are robust and aligned across all levels—store, regional, and format.
Guiding Regional Directors through proposed budgets, forecasts, and performance updates, including sign-off of regionally allocated KPIs (Sales, Payroll, Big 6).

3. Future-proofing the business and looking ahead

Facilitating knowledge sharing and best practice across finance and the wider business.
Actively participating in the finance business partnering community.
Operating within internal control guidelines to safeguard the company’s interests.
Championing a cost-conscious culture across the organisation.
Supporting functional initiatives aimed at driving efficiency within Tesco.
Maintaining a strong understanding of store operations through regular engagement and visits to the large store estate.

You will need:

Qualified accountant (ACA,ACCA, CIMA or equivilent)
Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, change-led environment with diverse stakeholders.
Finance experience in driving strategic priorities in large complex organisations
Strong numerical and analytical skills, with a keen eye for trends and actionable insights.
Influential and credible, with the ability to challenge and support in equal measure.
Skilled in root cause analysis and problem solving.
Effective coach, able to support colleagues with varying levels of financial knowledge.
Clear communicator, able to articulate both the “what” and the “how”.
Proven ability to prioritise, plan, and organise effectively.

What's in it for you:

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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 6 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

About us:

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.

We are proud to have an inclusive culture at Tesco where everyone truly feels able to be themselves. At Tesco, we not only celebrate diversity, but recognise the value and opportunity it brings. We're committed to creating a workplace where differences are valued, and make sure that all colleagues are given the same opportunities. We're a big business with diverse working patterns and many business areas which means that we can find something that works for you. Everyone is welcome at Tesco.

We have recently announced that we will be moving towards a more blended working week – combining office and remote working. Our offices will continue to be where we connect, collaborate and innovate. Please talk to us to about how this can work for you.

NOTE: Should you be successful in your application, your offer will be subject to and conditional upon you providing your bank account details on your agreed start date.

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 visit https://www.tesco-careers.com/accessibility