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Workplace: ITV London, White City - expectation is 3 days in the office per week.
The team..
It’s all lights, camera, action here at ITV Studios. As an outstanding creator, producer and distributor we put on quite a show. Our content offering is award winning, it’s record-breaking and it's vast with big name brands like The Voice, Love Island, Line of Duty, Queer Eye, Schitt’s Creek and many more.
We’re global and local, producing in 13 countries including the UK, US, France, Israel and Australia, and we aren’t standing still. We are operating in a growth market and have daring plans to grow and diversify. In ITV Studios Finance we are passionate and proud of the role we play in the creative and financial success of the business. Here we are small enough that your impact’s felt in the business, but big enough that your impact reaches millions of people.
The role..
Join the fast-growing digital studio of ITV Studios – Zoo 55 – at the forefront of global content innovation. Launched in early 2025, Zoo 55 drives high-margin growth by improving the value of ITV Studios' IP across digital platforms, including YouTube, TikTok, Meta, FAST channels, and mobile games. Achieving 25B views and £60m revenue in 2024, we plan to double output by 2027. This involves content creation, global expansion, and platform innovation.
We’re looking for a commercially minded Finance Business Partner to help steer Zoo 55’s performance, provide strategic insight, and ensure strong financial governance in this high-growth area.
Some of your key day-to-day responsibilities may include:
1. Own and lead the Zoo 55 P&L, driving delivery of financial outcomes and critical metrics
2. Build and lead the financial operating model, collaborating across ITV divisions
3. Implement robust financial controls and processes in line with Group policies
4. Act as a key member of the Global Partnerships finance leadership team
5. Mentor and develop a Digital FP&A Analyst
6. Partner closely with the Zoo 55 leadership team, providing actionable commercial insights
7. Review and prioritise investment cases
8. Support systems development projects for finance and business teams
9. Lead preparation of long-range plans, budgets, forecasts, and monthly board reports
Be part of ITV’s digital future – where data, creativity, and innovation meet.
Skills you’ll need (minimum criteria)
1. Strong commercial Finance Business Partnering experience in dynamic global organisations.
2. ‘Startup mentality’ – agility, flexibility, willingness to ‘roll sleeves up’ and a focus on continuous improvement and adaptation
3. Experience of operating in a matrix structure
4. Ideally a qualified (ACA, ACCA, or CIMA), but would consider applications from an individual qualified by relevant industry experience to deliver the responsibilities outlined above
Other things we’re looking for (key criteria)
1. Experience partnering a function passionate about growth driving as well as cost management.
2. Experience working in the Media industry preferred.
3. Ability to influence decision-making among senior stakeholders, providing appropriate challenges.
4. A confident team player who is able to build relationships with differing levels of seniority
5. Well organised and proactive with strong attention to detail
6. Embraces ambiguity and proactively works with others harnessing diversity of thought to quickly determine how to deliver desirable outcomes.
7. Have a digital focus and results driven approach
8. The ability to translate strategic priorities to the team in a clear and concise way
9. Have a keenness and active approach to understand what the other business area’s do within ITV and their priorities, creating more cohesive thinking across the business
10. Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
Please note, on occasion we may receive a very large volume of applications which means applications for a role may close earlier than the referenced closing date. We’d encourage you to apply as soon as possible if interested.
Seniority level
* Director
Employment type
* Full-time
Job function
* Finance, Strategy/Planning, and General Business
* Industries: Broadcast Media Production and Distribution
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