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We're seeking a commercially minded, data driven Finance Business Analyst to provide insight analysis to drive decision making about BBC Studios content. Could this be you?

This Finance Business Analyst opportunity within our Content Partnerships Finance team sits in the heart of BBC Studios' business. Reporting to the Finance Manager, you will be primarily focused on the revenue forecast and actuals reporting, revenue variance analysis, cost variance analysis, title profitability reporting and some data management projects and genre reporting. You will be partnering with key internal and external stakeholders, including Production genres and our Content Investment teams.

The Content Partnerships team leads the company’s creative partnerships, content funding strategies and IP pipeline. The team plays a key role in enabling a group-wide understanding of distribution margins, including analyses of margin enhancing and dilutive drivers in both actuals and forecasts. The team also maintains the integrity and control of financial systems and processes over c£400m of distribution costs.

About us:

BBC Studios is a global business of scale, able to fund, create, distribute and commercialise premium content for the BBC and other companies both in the UK and internationally. Working with the best writers, directors, and programme-makers, BBC Studios champions creativity, crafting over 2500 hours of content every year through eight production bases in the UK and production bases and partnerships in a further nine countries around the world. And that’s not all, BBC Studios are a committed partner to the UK’s thriving independent production community, as well as other broadcasters and digital platforms, delivering content that showcases the best of British and Global talent, stamped with the hallmark of quality. Our content encompasses a uniquely broad range of specialisms from Entertainment, Music, and Live Events to Natural History, Drama, Comedy, and now Children’s & Education.

Main Responsibilities

Business Support

• Help resolve key business issues and problems by delivering solutions and recommendations, based on sound analysis, for the Finance Manager and/or relevant operational stakeholders, sharing external and BBC-wide knowledge and good practice
• Maintain up-to-date knowledge and understanding of the divisional business, building and developing effective relationships with key business contacts

Analysis & Insight

• Deliver high quality financial and business analysis with recommendations for solving business problems, influencing and challenging business decisions
• Effectively bring together a range of source information and data to highlight new reporting modelling templates approach and ideas

Stakeholder Management

• Build and develop strong relationships with key business and finance stakeholders
• Ensure Finance Business Analysts and the relevant Finance teams are informed of issues, analysis and decisions that impact them or require their support/views

Are you the right candidate?

At BBC Studios, we seek people who are passionate about who we are and what we do

• Experience in the review and analysis of financial data from a range of source information to identify trends or themes and to suggest solutions/recommendations.
• Proficient in Excel, advanced modelling skills with the ability to create and maintain complex financial models.
• Ability to take complex data/principles and communicate these in an understandable way to the wider BBC team
• Ability to communicate effectively with a range of stakeholders.
• Possess strong numerical and analytical skills, reflecting an ability to manipulate and interpret data.
• Previous financial experience in media, a global commercial business, or an accountancy firm will be advantageous.
• Experience in revenue actuals reporting, forecasting, and consolidations in a complex multinational, multi-currency business, in addition to cash management and reporting, will be advantageous.

About the BBC

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 here

Package Description

Band: D
Contract type: 12 month FTC
Location: London TVC

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 an extra 5 days, a defined pension scheme and discounted dental, health care, gym and much more.

The situation regarding the coronavirus outbreak is developing quickly and the BBC is keen to continue to ensure the safety and wellbeing of people across the BBC, while continuing to protect our services. To reduce the risk access to BBC buildings is limited to those essential to our broadcast output. From Wednesday 18th March until further notice all assessments and interviews will be conducted remotely. For more information go to https://www.bbc.co.uk/careers/

Mae’r sefyllfa gyda’r coronafeirws yn datblygu’n gyflym, ac mae’r BBC yn awyddus i barhau i sicrhau diogelwch a lles pobl ar draws y BBC, gan barhau i warchod ein gwasanaethau hefyd. I leihau’r risg, dim ond y bobl sy’n hanfodol i’n hallbwn darlledu fydd yn cael mynediad i adeiladau’r BBC. O ddydd Mercher 18fed Mawrth ymlaen, bydd pob asesiad a chyfweliad yn cael ei gynnal o bell, nes rhoddir gwybod yn wahanol. I gael mwy o wybodaeth, ewch i https://www.bbc.co.uk/careers/