Regional Finance Business Partner

About Openreach

Openreach Limited is a wholly owned subsidiary of BT Group. We look after the copper wires and fibre cables that connect homes and businesses to phone and broadband. Our customers are the 650+ communications providers who sell phone and broadband services to these households and businesses.

Why this job matters

Openreach Limited runs the nation’s digital network. We play a key role in British society, helping homes, schools, hospitals, broadcasters, government, businesses and more connect to the world.

We're on a mission - to make the country’s digital network services faster, better and more affordable.

Our people are experienced, resourceful, and innovative, working on vital projects that help support the nation at work, in learning, on the move, at rest, at play, in emergencies, and much more.

So if you’d like to be a part of an exciting organisation that’s making a real difference, why not join us today?

Role Overview

Critical to Openreach’s commercial future will be our ability to manage the declining legacy base of our Copper based network and how we manage this efficiently from a unit cost basis. This includes the Repair costs in Opex and Investment capex programmes including the desk costs for the Copper team. This role will be pivotal to understanding and controlling our costs, and driving the business to achieve material unit cost reductions year on year. This will include linking in with transformation teams to drive cost reductions and cost management and working with operations on decision making that will deliver the targets.

What you’ll be doing

Commercial Thinking

• Business Partner for all Repair costs in Openreach; including copper programmes, i.e., FVR, ACR, etc.
• Copper desk costs optimisation
• Transformation lead for GB Ops

Communicating

• Communicating with the business on the component parts of unit costs for repair costs, driving ownership and accountability within the Copper team.
• Driving action-led insight through the financials to drive positive financial outcomes.
• Communicate to exec level the unit metrics and insight behind year-on-year movements variances to MTP.

Financial performance

• Accountable for business performance of Copper repair. Specifically:
• Period end reporting, outlook, and MTP for:

Copper repair costs at a unit cost level and total cost level

• Copper repair SLGs at a unit cost level and total cost level
• Period end reporting, outlook, and MTP for Investment programme capex programmes

Skills and Experience

An ability to communicate clearly & concisely. Telling the story of the Copper repair and desk business performance to multiple non-finance audiences.

• Pragmatic team player, adept at holding others to account through a challenging and supportive style, whilst consistently delivering on their own commitments
• An ability to manage multiple stakeholders and projects, working to tight deadlines
• Ability to manage ambiguity
• Advisor and coach to others both within own team and elsewhere, formulates their operational guidelines or in-depth knowledge and advises on specialist area
• Leads, champions, and manages conflicting priorities

Desired Qualifications / Experience

Bachelor’s degree in business or related field (or equivalent experience)

Fully qualified accountant / Further qualification to support specialism with significant PQE

Our Leadership Standards

Looking in:
Leading inclusively and Safely: I inspire and build trust through self-awareness, honesty and integrity. Owning outcomes: I take the right decisions that benefit the broader organisation.

Looking out:
Delivering for the customer: I execute brilliantly on clear priorities that add value to our customers and the wider business. Commercially savvy: I demonstrate strong commercial focus, bringing an external perspective to decision-making.

Looking to the future:
Growth mindset: I experiment and identify opportunities for growth for both myself and the organisation. Building for the future: I build diverse future-ready teams where all individuals can be at their best.

A Few Points to Note:

Although these roles are listed as full-time, if you’re a job share partnership, work reduced hours, or in any other way of working flexibly, please still get in touch.

Don't Meet Every Single Requirement?

Studies have shown that women and people who are disabled, LGBTQ+, neurodiverse, or from ethnic minority backgrounds are less likely to apply for jobs unless they meet every single qualification and criteria. We're committed to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace where everyone can be their best, so if you're excited about this role but your past experience doesn't align perfectly with every requirement on the Job Description, please apply anyway - you may just be the right candidate for this or other roles in our wider team.

About Openreach
We employ more than 35,091 people who install, support, and maintain the wiring, fibres, and connections which link tens of millions of homes and businesses in the UK to our customers’ networks.