Executive Assistant to Chief Financial Officer – London (Hybrid) – Attractive salary and benefits package
Are you a self-starter who responds quickly to challenges and can working independently?
Do you have planning, organisation and time management skill, plus a strong grasp of detail?
If so, BT are looking for an Executive Assistant where we’ll empower you, to empower our business units.
This role provides support directly to Consumer’s Chief Financial Officer, to ensure the smooth running of the Consumer Finance office, managing their own time and the priorities of the CFO to maximum effect to allow Consumer Finance to deliver on its purpose.
This role will provide business management and comms support to the CFO and Consumer Finance Leadership, drive engagement plans and own overall communication plans for Consumer Finance
This role also provides PA support to Cost Efficiency & Customer Services Finance Director
What’s in it for you? What are the benefits?
At BT, we entertain, educate and empower millions of people every single day. We’re a brand built on connecting people – whether that’s friends, family, businesses or communities. Working here, you’ll receive an attractive salary and a range of competitive benefits, but – more than that – you’ll be joining an ambitious organisation with a culture of togetherness, collaboration and inclusivity. Benefits of working for BT include:
- Tailored training and development opportunities to continue to build your career
- 10% on target bonus
- 25 days’ annual leave (not including bank holidays)
- Pension scheme - you contribute 5%, BT contributes 10%
- Discounted BT broadband and BT Sport, BT TV and Mobile
- Share option schemes
- Season ticket loan and cycle to work schemes and many more flexible benefits to fit around you
What will the role involve as our Executive Assistant?
- Communications / Engagement
- Co-ordinates all people calls/webcasts/events working in partnership with content owners helping to shape the agenda for colleagues
- Co-ordinates engagement and visibility plans including virtual for CFO
- Stakeholder Management & Collaboration
- Uses knowledge to influence key stakeholders
- Navigates relationships openly and honestly leveraging stakeholder relationships, using experience and expertise with ability to implement new ideas and shape the best solutions to problems
- Meeting Preparation
- Works with content owners on creating and producing meeting papers, briefings, and presentations, including Board papers
- Analyses simple data, edits and prepares reports on behalf of the CFO
- Email Management
- Develops processes to manage email workflow, implementing ideas to improve and simplify CFO workstack
- Ensures actionable emails are dealt with daily and open actions are tracked through to completion
- Time Management and Meeting Planning
- Integrate and synchronise personal commitments and actively seeks these out for the full year
- Schedules and leads regular office meetings to plan ahead, review commitments and requirements and implement actions
- Technology
- Develops and contributes to knowledge of new technologies, how they’re used in BT and externally
- Becomes the advocate and stays up to date on digital technology and applications making time for training and seeking out best practice to work smarter
What are we looking for in our Executive Assistant? You may have a variety of the below;
- Relationship building: able to build strong relationships and develop wide networks internally and externally to exert influence on outcomes, get work done through others, without direct authority
- IT proficiency: experience in using excel to drive insight and proficiency on MS office (including powerpoint)
- High level of flexibility to provide business support as and when required. This may also include travel to other UK sites.
- Time management and planning: strong skills in planning, organisation and time management, strong grasp of detail, working to deadlines and be able to identify opportunities for continuous improvement.
Location: London-based with flexible smart working
How to Apply
So, if you're interested in the power of potential, why not join us today and release yours? You can read more here about what it's like to work at BT
It's easy to apply online; you just need a copy of your up-to-date CV and to follow the step-by step process. Don't worry if you need to make changes - you'll have the opportunity to review and edit your work on the final page. We look forward to receiving your application!
BT is an equal opportunities employer. We’re working hard to create an inclusive working environment, where people from all backgrounds can succeed. We want to make sure your recruitment experience is the best it can be – so, if you’re selected for an interview, please let us know if there’s any adjustments we can make that would be helpful for you.
The Finance Business Partner Analyst executes financial and commercial support to key stakeholders, supporting optimal business decisions and delivering better financial and commercial performance, in alignment with Group business objectives.
1. Contributes to establishing relationships with stakeholders and supports the provision of finance business partnering to various areas of the business
2. Supports delivery of financial planning processes for the unit, providing input and insight to inform business partnering activities, and enabling effective business strategy development, decision making and performance management
3. Assists with the implementation of the strategy for the unit by working with the team to provide insights and key reports, aligned to the FP&A strategy for the Group/Business Unit
4. Supports the delivery of end-to-end financials across a transaction cycle/ function
5. Partners with sub-units to provide routine financial insights to inform strategic decision making
6. Builds understanding and impact of financial reporting on performance of the business unit
7. Carries out all business partnering activities in compliance with, local legislative and regulatory requirements
8. Supports the identification and management of risk through regular assessment and diligent execution of controls and mitigations, raising any concerns as appropriate
9. Supports in the implementation of ways to improve working processes within area of responsibility and communicate issues and areas for improvement to business unit/area managers such as through supporting resolution of any data issues impacting productivity or compliance
10. Keeps knowledge up to date on emerging trends and changes in financial reporting principles and practices, sharing with team members
Auditing
Accounting Principles
Financial Accounting
Financial Controls, Compliance & Risk
Treasury
Statutory & External Financial Reporting
Business Partnering & Consulting
Forecasting, Planning & Budgeting
Finance Data, Processes & Systems
Financial & Data Analysis & Insight
Looking in:
Leading inclusively
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.
About us
We’re EE. We provide the best network and excellent service, so our customers can live better connected lives.
And, as part of the BT Group, we’re even bigger than you might think. In fact, we run the UK’s fastest mobile network, offering 5G in more major cities than any other UK network.
That's not all. We believe technology is a force for good—and that’s why we’re harnessing the power of tech to change things for the better.
It means that we're helping to build and supply more sustainable products, as well as reducing our impact on the environment. We're working to become the world’s most trusted connector of people, devices, and machines—including exciting new areas like TV, insurance, and connected devices. And we're accelerating change by creating new skills and building a more inclusive business. The thing that makes all this happen? Our human connections.