Sales and Commercial FP&A Controller

Job Description

Sales and Commercial FP&A Controller | British Group plc

The Tone:
This is a full-time role at British Group plc, located in Budapest, Hungary. BT Group is the UK’s leading communications group, including brands like BT, EE, and Openreach, focused on connecting for good. The company serves consumers, small, medium, and large businesses, public sector organizations, and other communications providers, currently prioritizing operational simplification, technology and AI adoption, and sustainable growth. This role is pivotal in shaping decisions and influencing outcomes at the heart of one of the country’s most important companies, specifically within the international accounts (S&C) B2B segment.

The TL;DR
• Role: Full Time
• Type: Hybrid – Smart working approach (3 together, 2 wherever)
• Location: Hybrid – Budapest, Hungary

• Team: Part of the S&C Leadership Team within BT International, managing a c. £2bn revenue business.
• Mission: Owns all financial, budgetary, and financial control processes and policies for the vertical and geographies within the S&C business unit, ensuring strategic delivery and compliance across 215 legal entities.

What You’ll Actually Do
• Strategic Oversight: Define and execute the FP&A strategy for specific verticals and geographies within Global, ensuring consistency and setting the financial strategic direction.
• Financial Management: Own all financial, budgetary, and financial control processes and policies for the S&C business unit, encompassing forecasting, reporting, planning, budget setting, P&L, balance sheet, cash-flow, tax, VAT, currency, and FX management.
• Compliance & Governance: Ensure adherence to the Group financial control framework, driving compliance, standardization, and consistency of Finance practices across regions and verticals while mitigating risk.
• Performance Insight: Oversee and review forecast and budget details, providing financial insight and guidance to support effective business strategy development, decision-making, and performance management.
• Capital & Fiduciary Accountability: Manage vertical and geography Capex, including prioritisation processes, and hold legal/fiduciary accountability for all accounting, control, and governance matters in the region.

The Must-Haves
• Background: Career level of Senior Manager/Controller with core domain knowledge in financial planning & analysis, accounting principles, and financial control within a commercial and international context.
• Experience: Proven experience working in a complex, matrix, commercial, and international organization; setting and executing financial strategy; delivering transformation projects; and financial, management, and labour resource reporting & planning.
• Skills: Expertise in accounting principles, finance data, processes and systems, financial & data analysis and insight, management reporting, financial controls, compliance and risk, forecasting, planning and budgeting, and multi-currency / FX knowledge.