We\'re excited to offer three permanent Finance Analyst positions within the newly established Studios UK Finance Hub. Each role has its unique focus but shares a common goal: delivering high-impact financial insights, forecasting, accounting, and reporting that empower Finance Business Partners and stakeholders across ITV Studios UK. Reporting to the Senior Finance Analyst, you\'ll play a key role in driving accuracy, efficiency, and strategic decision-making within a collaborative and fast-paced environment.
Responsibilities
* Deliver timely, accurate, and relevant management information, ensuring data quality and meaningful metrics that drive business decisions
* Support finance planning cycles by preparing actuals, budgets, and forecasts in partnership with FP&A Business Leads for Divisional FP&A and Business Review submissions
* Drive continuous improvement by working with the Senior Finance Analyst to enhance processes, reporting, and analytics, identifying and resolving data issues within a controlled change framework
* Prepare month-end revenue and cost of sales data, ensuring adherence to IFRS 15 revenue recognition and maintaining clear documentation and audit trails
* Track and assess development spend against plans using efficient workflow and reporting tools, collaborating with Finance Business Partners and FP&A leads
* Manage billing and third-party payment processing, ensuring efficiency, compliance, and proper setup of contracts and off-system billing
* Prepare and process secondary revenue streams, working closely with stakeholders to ensure transparency and accuracy in revenue forecasts and reporting
* Work with the GFO to create overhead journals at month-end close to ensure transactions are recorded accurately. Maintain clear documentation and audit trails for all journal entries
* Collate and report on staff costs working with HR and the Finance community to optimise Oracle HCM usage, providing insightful and user-friendly reporting
* Prepare and load all allocations and recharges, ensuring the calculations are accurate and reconcile to the transactions entered into the Oracle planning tool
* Prepare recoveries reporting, to ensure full visibility of staff utilisation, working closely with FP&A Business Leads and production teams
Qualifications
* Proven experience in a Finance Analyst role or equivalent
* Solid understanding of accounting and financial concepts, including revenue recognition
* Skilled in analysing and reporting financial and operational data, with the ability to handle large data sets from multiple sources
* Experience with budget preparation, rolling forecasts, and identifying underlying variances and issues
* Part qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, or CIMA) or equivalent experience considered
Other criteria
* Confident team player able to build effective relationships across all seniority levels
* Strong ability to multitask, prioritise, and meet tight deadlines
* Well organised, proactive, with excellent attention to detail and a results-driven mindset
* High proficiency in Excel and Google Suite
* Working knowledge of Oracle Fusion suite would be an advantage
* Experience working in the television production industry is desirable
Benefits
* Flexible working with a range of options
* Generous holiday allowance, plus you can buy more
* Annual bonus opportunity
* Competitive pension contribution
* Save as you earn - with an opportunity to buy ITV shares
* Wellbeing and volunteering days plus a wide range of opportunities to help you live a balanced and healthy life
ITV Studios UK division operates a partnering-led finance structure, reporting into the Finance Director - ITV Studios UK. This structure is supported by the Studios UK Finance Hub, a centralised finance function providing analytical support, accounting and reporting and the Production Finance Hub providing production finance support across Scripted and Unscripted productions.
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