Finance Manager - Gigabit

The Gigabit programme is a critical part of Openreach’s contribution to the UK Government’s Project Gigabit initiative, which aims to close the digital divide by bringing gigabit-capable full-fibre broadband to hard-to-reach communities across the UK.

Over the next five years, Openreach will invest close to £1bn in delivering government-funded and co-funded fibre infrastructure, supporting the rollout of gigabit connectivity to hundreds of thousands of rural homes and businesses under a national framework agreement with Building Digital UK. This represents one of the UK’s most complex digital infrastructure programmes, spanning multiple regions and delivery models.

The Gigabit Finance Manager plays a key role in supporting this nationally significant programme, providing high-quality financial and commercial insight to senior stakeholders. The role focuses on enabling informed investment decisions, maintaining robust financial controls and driving improvements in commercial performance and delivery across a complex, multi-year government-funded portfolio.

• Provide strategic commercial and financial support to the Gigabit programme, using robust financial analysis to influence investment decisions, delivery priorities and commercial outcomes.
• Act as a trusted finance partner to programme leadership, translating complex financial data into clear, actionable insights that drive value for money and support effective decision-making.

• Influence decisions on delivery pace, cost and capacity by providing clear financial insight, highlighting trade-offs and recommending appropriate actions.
• Lead the finance interface with the offshore finance support team, ensuring financial inputs are accurate, delivered on time, thoroughly reviewed and appropriately approved.

• Act as the key finance contact for Building Digital UK, providing timely and accurate monthly reporting on programme performance, financial position, key insights and reporting requirements.

• Own the monthly financial reporting, outlook and Medium-Term Plan for the Gigabit programme, maintaining end-to-end accountability for financial performance and forecast accuracy.
• Connect operational performance, including productivity and delivery volumes, to financial outcomes, providing clear visibility of performance, emerging risks and future financial implications.

• Identify and assess financial risks and opportunities, working with delivery teams to develop and implement improvement plans that enhance programme performance.
• Deliver insightful financial analysis to support resource and capacity planning, helping the programme optimise the balance between direct labour and subcontractor delivery.

• Strong accounting knowledge and commercial judgement, with the ability to interpret contract terms into accurate accounting outcomes, effectively manage working capital and cash flow, and support well-informed commercial decisions.
• Strong stakeholder management and delivery skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities and projects simultaneously, often within tight and competing deadlines.
• Practical problem-solving skills, with the ability to navigate complex and evolving challenges, applying judgement, experience and insight to identify effective solutions and provide clear direction.

• Clear and confident communicator, able to articulate the story behind Gigabit business performance to finance and non-finance audiences at all levels, tailoring insight, data and analysis appropriately.
• Pragmatic…