This inclusive employer is a member of myGwork – the largest global platform for the LGBTQ business community. Job Introduction We are seeking a Finance Business Analyst, to join our News Finance team, on a permanent basis. This is an exciting opportunity to join News Finance, working predominantly across its International business, although also available to its UK business, and be a part of its digital transformation. The BBC News vision is to pursue truth, bring people together and drive efficiency to help deliver its stretching savings targets. The finance team will play a pivotal role in delivering this vision. We are looking for a talented individual with strong analytical experience who is able to work at a fast pace and demonstrates exceptional interpersonal skills. This individual will be focus on the International business, including the World Service, helping to assess options, potential commercial opportunities, supporting the drafting of business cases and their implementation and monitoring delivery of financial benefits. There are further needs for the International business which involve working with the International Operations team's response to global emergency situations and providing financial advice and support. The BBC's international business environment is complex, and has presences in jurisdictions where doing business is not straightforward - the Finance Business Analyst may be required from time to time to help resolve these complexities such that transactions are completed or problems solved. The News Finance team and its key stakeholders are predominantly based in London and in many countries around the world. Regular in-person attendance to the London office of at least 2 days per week is expected but candidates may be based elsewhere. Finance Business Analysts (FBAs) support the BBC in driving best value from the licence fee within each business area. FBAs generally focus on forward-looking, high-impact commercial and investment decisions and support effective financial planning within their area. They will work alongside Finance Business Partners delivering financial and business analysis to help solve key business problems, progress local projects and initiatives and influence business decisions. The nature of the team means the role will regularly be dealing with senior stakeholders and cut across different parts of the organisation. There is a strong focus on the development of team members, ensuring people work on a diverse range of projects, gain excellent senior exposure and take advantage of opportunities for both on- and off-the-job development. Main Responsibilities As a Finance Business Analyst, you will: Own and deliver high quality financial and business analysis with options and recommendations to solve business problems and to influence and challenge business decisions Analyse financial and non-financial data, performance, risks and issues to identify underlying business trends or themes that need to be addressed, sharing external and BBC wide knowledge and good practice Deliver high quality supporting papers, reports, briefing notes (as required) across all work areas, for sharing and discussion with the Finance Business Partner / Finance Director / Senior Management or Divisional and Departmental Boards Promote and deliver improvements through identifying and recommending opportunities for efficiencies and value generation Build and develop strong relationships with key business and finance stakeholders and maintain effective and collaborative working relationships across the business and the Finance community Maintain up to date knowledge and understanding of the different business areas, including their underlying cost drivers and key strategic challenges and opportunities Referencing and championing external and BBC-wide knowledge of best practice in financial analysis, ways of working and commercial performance Are you the right candidate? We have a strong track record of developing individuals at all stages of their career - from newly qualified accountants, to those looking to change direction, and those returning to work after a career break. A professional accounting qualification ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent qualification or part qualification would be of significant benefit. The right candidate will also be able to demonstrate a high proficiency in the use of Microsoft Excel, able to manipulate large financial and non financial datasets and extract useful insights which they can present clearly and compellingly. An ability to financially evaluate options and present cashflows, NPVs and payback calculations for each is also needed. Experience of using accounting and reporting systems (SAP, myBusiness, BPC etc) is required and candidates should have accounting experience preferably in an international environment. Whatever stage your career is at, what's important is that you can demonstrate your experience in most of the following areas: Analytical skills - ability to collate and interpret complex data in Excel, and to translate and simplify this analysis in PowerPoint - ultimately driving and influencing decision making Problem solving - identifying key objectives and resolving challenges on a timely basis; communicating next steps to ensure management take informed decisions Task management - scoping of work from the outset, establishing clear timelines and milestones, and prioritising/escalating issues to ensure timely delivery Relationships - building strong relationships and influencing a broad range of stakeholders, including those in executive leadership positions Drive and resilience - team members should be able to manage their own work, run projects independently, and keep stakeholders appraised of progress Development - clarity about your career direction and a desire to progress in the business and take on challenging projects to develop yourself and others Industry knowledge - either experience working in the media sector, or a keen interest and ability to discuss its trends, direction of travel, and relevance to the BBC This is not a technical business analyst role LI-DNI Package Description Band: D Contract type: permanent Location: Broadcasting House, London. Salary: £45,000 - £55,000pa (plus London Weighting £5,164pa) depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights. We're happy to discuss flexible working. Please indicate your choice under the flexible working question in the application. There is no obligation to raise this at the application stage but if you wish to do so, you are welcome to. Flexible working will be part of the discussion at offer stage. Excellent career progression - the BBC offers great opportunities for employees to seek new challenges and work in different areas of the organisation. Unrivalled training and development opportunities - our in-house Academy hosts a wide range of internal and external courses and certification. Benefits - We offer a competitive salary package, a flexible 35-hour working week for work-life balance and 26 days (1 of which is a corporation day) with the option to buy or sell up to 5 days, a defined contribution pension scheme and discounted dental, health care, gym and much more. About the BBC The BBC is committed to redeploying employees seeking suitable alternative employment within the BBC for different reasons and they will be given priority consideration ahead of other applicants. Priority consideration means for those employees seeking redeployment their application will be considered alongside anyone else at risk of redundancy, prior to any individuals being considered who are not at risk. 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. Please make sure you've read about our values and behaviours in the document attached below. Diversity matters at the BBC. We have a working environment where we value and respect every individual's unique contribution, enabling all of our employees to thrive and achieve their full potential. We want to attract the broadest range of talented people to be part of the BBC - whether that's to contribute to our programming or our wide range of non-production roles. The more diverse our workforce, the better able we are to respond to and reflect our audiences in all their diversity. We are committed to equality of opportunity and welcome applications from individuals, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief. We will consider flexible working requests for all roles, unless operational requirements prevent otherwise. To find out more about Diversity and Inclusion at the BBC, please click http://www.bbc.co.uk/diversity/