Finance Manager, Strategic Planning & Analysis
Finance
Permanent - Full Time
London, GB, W12 7FA Cardiff, GB, CF10 4GA
Job Closing Date: 6/1/25
THE ROLE
BBC Studios is a world-renowned content studio and channels & streaming business, powered by British creativity, with a reach that touches audiences in every corner of the globe.
We work with outstanding creative talent who are responsible for platform-defining shows from Strictly Come Dancing to Bluey, Eastenders, Prehistoric Planet and Planet Earth III.
The range and quality of our content is unsurpassed, creating critical and commercial successes and global phenomena.
From BAFTAs to RTS Awards, BBC Studios is Britain’s most awarded production company and the only producer with three of the top ten shows on IMDB; we’re the home of bbc.com, the widest-read English language news website in the world; and the UK’s largest distributor of British content.
BBC Studios has an ambitious growth plan to double in the next five years. This role oversees all BBC Studios financial forecasts and will support executive decision making through high quality, strategic planning, underpinned by astute business insights and an informed view of the market.
This role will provide dedicated and hands-on experience for strategic and dynamic planning initiatives, such as the LRP, rolling forecasts, and cashflow forecasting, as well as any external deliverables for the longer-term financial outlook.
This role will report into Head of FP&A within the BBC Studios Finance team.
Key Responsibilities:
Planning & Forecasting
* Support & help drive accurate forecasting at the BBC Commercial Group level for our long-range-plan.
* Support an efficient rolling forecast process both in-year and spanning multiple years to allow for dynamic risk and opportunity management.
* Serve as a high-performing finance individual who is able to synthesise and advise on trends and insights from a Group position to aid business decision making, particularly across longer-term planning cycles.
* Provide detailed analysis of the LRP forecast ensuring key assumptions and changes to the Head of FP&A.
* Stress test business assumptions and challenge and collaborate with key stakeholders.
* Support on monitoring of cash and debt levels particularly with respect to headroom and ability to operate within our debt and banking covenants, and to allow for informed capital allocation discussions.
* Work closely with Reporting teams to ensure all forecasts are informed by historical performance and variances to prior forecasts.
Stakeholder Communication & Collaboration
* Regularly engage with senior stakeholders across BBC Studios to cultivate rapport.
* Work in a collaborative manner with other members of the Group FP&A team showing a willingness to work flexibly and ensure the team overall delivers to a high standard.
* Be comfortable in performing detailed analysis and maintaining an ability to clearly communicate key messages to various stakeholders, both financial and non-financial, on future performance outlooks.
* An ability to synthesise key trends, risks and opportunities and drivers of performance to help build and deliver a clear finance story from data and numbers to various stakeholders.
* Support on collaboration with all key finance leads across multiple divisions to build robust and informed consolidated views.
* An ability to succinctly summarise information for external reporting where required, in conjunction with Reporting Teams.
* Encourage innovative thinking and a proactive approach to strategic planning to truly embody and fulfil our Finance purpose of “designing & driving value.”
WHAT DOES IT TAKE?
ESSENTIAL CRITERIA:
* Hands-on experience in a strategic planning and/or Group environment.
* Prior experience of a role in a matrix managed production or media business.
* A demonstrated ability to exercise initiative, judgement and communication from a business perspective to attain positive outcomes.
* Track record of success with synthesising key trends, insights and strategic narratives from data and numbers to inform decision making.
* A professional accounting qualification (e.g., ACA, ACCA, CIMA, CPA) or equivalent experience.
* Adept at managing numerous stakeholders and telling an insightful financial story to non-finance leaders.
* Experience with improving reporting and processes for clearer actions and insights.
* A convincing and accountable communicator with a track record for successful relationship building.
DESIRABLE CRITERIA:
* Knowledge of/ability to build and improve forecasting models and scenario analysis.
* Success with process and reporting improvements, creation of strategic dashboards etc.
* Strong systems skills including Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, SAP S4 and BPC.
LIFE AT BBC STUDIOS
We don’t focus simply on what we do – we also care how we do it. Our values and the way we behave are important to us.
The BBC is committed to building a culturally diverse workforce, that represents the audiences we serve, and encourages applications from candidates from any background, especially people from diverse communities. Equity of opportunity is important to us, and we endeavour to make our processes equal, fair and meritocratic for everybody.
BBC Studios puts sustainability at the heart of everything we do both onscreen and offscreen, including delivering against the BBC Group’s science-based Net Zero targets.
As a Level 2 Disability Confident employer, we will ensure that a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants that meet the minimum criteria for this position will be offered an interview. If you require any reasonable adjustments in order to apply please contact us on reasonable.adjustments@bbc.co.uk.
PACKAGE DESCRIPTION
Job Reference: 20177
Band: E
Salary: up to £75,000 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience, plus 15% bonus and London Weighting of £5319 where applicable.
Location: Office Base is London Television Centre or Cardiff. This is a hybrid role and the successful candidate will balance office working with home working.
WHAT WILL YOU GAIN FROM WORKING AT BBC STUDIOS?
* We offer a competitive salary package.
* Flexible 35-hour working week for work-life balance.
* Parental leave for new parents, regardless of gender, of up to a year with 18 weeks fully paid.
* 26 days holiday (plus an additional day which is a Corporation Day) with the option to buy an extra 5 days.
* A defined pension scheme and discounted dental, health care, gym and much more.
* A comprehensive Employee Assistance Program (EAP).
* Excellent career progression – access to courses, webinars, workshops and the opportunity to work in different areas of the organisation.
NEXT STEPS
We appreciate your interest in this position and understand how important this opportunity is to you. Due to the high volume of interest we may need to close the application period earlier than anticipated. This step is necessary to ensure we can provide a high level of attention and service to all applicants. Thank you for your understanding.
DISCLAIMER
This job description is a written statement of the essential characteristics of the job, with its principal accountabilities, incorporating a note of the skills, knowledge and experience required for a satisfactory level of performance. This is not intended to be a complete, detailed account of all aspects of the duties involved.
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