Senior Finance Business Partner, BBC Nations - Wales

Senior Finance Business Partner, BBC Nations - Wales Cardiff, Wales

BBC
Full Time Cardiff, Wales 43013 - 54400 GBP ANNUAL Today
Job description

Job Introduction

BBC Nations is one of the largest divisions within the BBC - delivering local, regional and nations services to millions of people each day across the UK on television, radio and mobile platforms. Nations operate from over 50 locations across all four UK nations, with major bases in Glasgow, Cardiff, Salford, Bristol, Birmingham, London and Belfast. We invest almost £450m on content each year and employ almost 5500 staff.

We commission a range of content in a wide variety of genres on television and radio: from local radio to the BBC Scotland channel, from regional news to Radio Foyle, from Angels of the North to Keeping Faith and Guilt. Our digital role is also vital for millions of daily users and we produce content across BBC News, BBC Sport, BBC iPlayer, BBC Bitesize and BBC Sounds.

The BBC has plans to get closer to audiences across the UK, transforming the BBC into a genuinely UK-wide organisation. This is why we are embarking on a bold programme of change and modernisation – to ensure we are relevant to and valued by audiences the length and breadth of the UK. To deliver this, we’ll focus on outstanding creativity and collaboration – and getting closer than ever to our audiences.

We are looking for a Senior Finance Business Partner to partner with our Nations division, specifically in Wales. As the Senior Finance Business Partner, this is a fantastic opportunity to be a part of the Nations Finance leadership team and a member of the BBC Wales Executive Team.

BBC Wales is the nation's broadcaster, providing a wide range of English and Welsh language content for audiences across Wales, as well as flagship programmes for the BBC Network. BBC Wales is 1,100 people strong and spread across 9 hubs with headquarters recently relocated to Central Square, Cardiff City Centre.

Main Responsibilities

This is a senior position within BBC’s Nations Finance Team, working closely with and influencing senior management to drive business performance via the provision of objective advice, insight and challenge effectively acting as a catalyst for change.


This role will be instrumental in driving forward change across the Nations Division in complex areas of the business by assisting in defining financial strategy and delivering high profile corporate initiatives, and delivering effective financial management, control and advisory support in their divisional businesses to optimise business performance. To take ownership for ensuring best value for licence payers by using an evidenced based approach to identify improvements in the business model and then effectively to project manage these improvements with stakeholders across the business the business.


The role reports to the Finance Director for Nations, and works closely with the Nations Leadership team and wider Finance community to deliver improvement and aim to maximise the impact of Finance.

Are you the right candidate?
  • Experience of working in a highly results focused and complex organisation, undergoing significant change
  • Experience of working with financial accounting systems and the ability to understand, interpret and communicate complex financial data to a range of audiences
  • Experience of providing direction and managerial support to team of finance professionals, including Finance Business Partners, Finance Business Analysts and other junior members of staff
  • Track record of strong and effective financial management and control, budgeting, forecasting and long range planning and analysis
  • Experience of financial modelling and supporting the business in strategic decision making
  • High levels of personal credibility, professionalism and ethical standards; effective at Senior Management level, with strong oral and written communication skills
  • Professional accounting qualification (ACA, ACCA, CIMA)
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


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.

Package Description

Band: F
Contract type: Permanent
Location: Cardiff (Hybrid working)

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.

Senior Finance Business Partner, BBC Nations - Wales
BBC

www.bbc.co.uk
London, United Kingdom
Tim Davie
Unknown / Non-Applicable
10000+ Employees
Company - Public
Broadcast Media
1922
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