Overview
Business Partnering & Commercial Finance Manager – Marketing (Assembly, Bristol, United Kingdom)
This role can be based in Birmingha, Bristol or London.
Closing Date: Monday 22nd September 2025
About EE
We’re EE. We are the biggest mobile and broadband operator in the UK and we have a relationship in every second household in the country. But we’re for everyone, on any network – serving up new tech, new services, and heaps of inspiration for every aspect of your connected life.
We’ve been awarded the UK’s best network for the last 10 years. It’s central to our vision – to be the most personal customer-focused technology company in the UK.
That means earning a place on customers’ home screens by offering them more than ever before, whether that’s helping their home run smarter with EE Home, levelling up their play with EE Game, helping them work on their terms with EE Work, or even unleashing their kids’ learning with EE Learn.
We’re also part of BT Group, which we’re even bigger than you might think. Millions of people rely on us every day to help them live their lives, power their businesses, and keep their public services running. We connect friends to family, clients to colleagues, people to possibilities. We keep the wheels of business spinning, and the emergency services responding.
We think we’ve got something special here. We want everyone to feel proud about working at EE – and feel excited about where we’re going and what we’re going to do. Want to join in?
Why this role matters
As a Business Partnering & Commercial Finance Manager – Marketing, you will play a pivotal role within the Commercial Finance team for EE. You will lead financial analysis and business partnering efforts to drive P&L performance, providing insightful guidance to support strategic decision-making. Collaborating closely with the Marketing teams, you will influence pricing and proposition development to ensure commercial success and alignment with financial targets.
What you'll be doing
- Lead the finance interface with EE Marketing, including Pricing and Propositions teams, to influence the development of new customer propositions.
- Serve as the main point of contact for articulating P&L performance through key drivers and own the “one source” on profit improvement initiatives.
- Provide robust decision-support to the Marketing team, ensuring pricing and proposition proposals meet value objectives.
- Ensure end-to-end finance engagement on propositions pre-launch, aligning budgets and mid-term plans with relevant costs and benefits.
- Identify, quantify, and mitigate risks arising from internal and external factors such as regulatory changes, customer churn, and ARPU fluctuations.
- Conduct ad hoc commercial analysis and impact assessments related to price changes, market dynamics, and new propositions.
- Own commercial evaluations of key strategic projects, delivering insights, challenges, and presenting outcomes to senior stakeholders.
The skills you'll need
- Qualified Accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA, or equivalent).
- Proven experience in financial business partnering, budgeting, planning, and forecasting.
- Strong commercial acumen with the ability to interpret and communicate financial insights effectively.
- Advanced financial modeling skills, particularly in Excel, to support decision-making.
- Exceptional relationship-building and influencing skills to work effectively with marketing and commercial teams.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.
Benefits
- 10% on target bonus
- BT Pension scheme, minimum 5% Employee contribution, BT contribution 10%
- From January 2025, equal family leave: receive 18 weeks at full pay, 8 weeks at half pay and 26 weeks at the statutory rate. It’s for all parents, no matter how your family is made up.
- Enhanced women’s health support: including help with menopause symptoms, cancer screenings, period care and more.
- 25 days annual leave (not including bank holidays), increasing with service
- 24/7 private virtual GP appointments for UK colleagues
- 2 weeks carer’s leave
- World-class training and development opportunities
- Option to join BT Shares Saving schemes.
We value diversity and celebrate difference. ‘We embed diversity and inclusion into everything that we do. It’s fundamental to our purpose: we connect for good.’
We all stick to the same values: Personal, Simple, and Brilliant. From day one, you’ll get stuck in to tough challenges, pitch in with ideas, make things happen. But you won’t be alone: we’ll be there with help and support, learning and development.
A FEW POINTS TO NOTE:
Although these roles are listed as full-time, if you’re a job share partnership, work reduced hours, or any other way of working flexibly, please still get in touch.
We will also offer reasonable adjustments for the selection process if required, so please do not hesitate to inform us.
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.
