Business Adviser Business Adviser

Freelancers are eligible to apply for an internal role if they are on a Worker Contract and they have worked continuously for 6 months. If they have worked for less than 6 months continuously or have a break of 3 weeks or more between engagements, they must seek Divisional HR approval to apply for an internal role prior to submitting an application. If they are unsure which contract they are on, they can speak to their booker or the HR BP, however if it helps - both a PAYE freelance or Modus Gross contract is considered a Worker contract and covered by the Worker terms found hereJob Introduction Working to the Business Partner in the Production and Business Management Team, the primary objective of the role is to support the business and its key stakeholders in delivering world-beating journalism 24/7/365. The new Business Advisor role will be providing editorial teams across the World Service division with a wide range of business management services. BBC World Service is an international news provider, part of BBC News, delivering a wide range of language and regional services on digital, TV and radio. It reaches a weekly audience of around 364 million around the world, helping them make sense of the world we live in. As the World Service is undergoing transformation, the immediate priority will be to support the move to the new business support model, establishing new ways of working in Languages Content Hub. Ongoing, you will also work with the Business Partner to ensure that the business management services remain fit-for-purpose, continually adapting to evolving customer and business needs.Main Responsibilities The Business Advisor role will provide a wide range of business management services to digital, planning and newsgathering teams in WSL Content hub to enable the delivery of their editorial ambitions. The successful candidate will partner closely with another Business Advisor to deliver below activities:

• Provide full business support and advice to editorial leads on a broad range of management activities (Staffing/Finance/Assets) to ensure smooth running of the Business Unit and to enable delivery of their editorial ambitions.
• Work with Business Partner and subject-matter experts to produce accurate projections and deliver budget and headcount plans in order to maintain financial control of the business unit.
• Support editorial leads with key business planning activities including planning and development of business cases, annual business plans, recruitment plans, large deployments and events/productions
• Work closely with HR and Finance to monitor expenditure and staff movement against agreed budget and headcount targets including supporting management of risk and policy compliance
• Ensure consistent monitoring and application of the right processes to carry out all necessary business performance management activity to achieve targets.
• Proactively identify risks, opportunities for change and develop solutions with wider Business Management community as well as central functions to deliver efficiency, good value for money
• Support the delivery or implementation of corporate objectives and strategic projects including savings and transformation programmes.
• This role will line manage a small support team, including Business coordinator(s) and Team assistant to enable the delivery of the day-to-day-operations of the business unit.
  
  Demonstrable experience of providing administrative and business management support to a business unit of similar size and complexity, ideally with knowledge and experience of establishing and improving the performance of business critical processes
• Good financial acumen with practical experience of monitoring headcount and budget and the ability to produce accurate management information, budgets, headcount forecasts, supporting decision-making and effective business planning and investigations of variances in a timely manner.
• Experience of leading a support team, managing a busy workload with conflicting priorities and tight deadlines and demonstrable ability to handle confidential information with tact and sensitivity.
• Excellent communications skills and experience in building and maintaining good working relationships with stakeholders and professional support functions and the ability to demonstrate effective influencing skills.
• Strong IT skills and extensive experience of using Office software and other specialist reporting and business management tools to help monitor spend, run SAP reports.
• Ability to work with limited supervision with a proactive and flexible approach and ability to continually adapt to evolving editorial, audience and market demands.
• Project management skills with an ability to improve organisational effectiveness and support a culture of continuous improvement.
• Experience of working in and supporting an international broadcasting organisation, incl. awareness of risks and challenges associated with overseas deployments and recruitment (desirable).
  
  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.
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• 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 negotiable salary package, a flexible 35-hour working week for work-life balance and 25 days annual leave with the option to buy an extra 5 days, a defined pension scheme and discounted dental, health care and gym. You can find out more about working at the BBC by selecting this link to our candidate pack