Finance Business Analyst - Digital News and Streaming Finance Business Analyst - Digital News and Streaming

This is an exciting and unique opportunity to join the Digital News and Streaming Finance team within BBC Studios. The team supports our global direct to consumer news and factual businesses including BBC.com and our syndicated streaming services. The Finance Business Analyst will support the Finance Business Partner responsible for strategic financial planning and analysis activities. They will deliver routine and ad hoc analysis and insight, and model future financial scenarios to support key decisions and ensure robust financial forecasting. They will assist in setting financial KPIs, and in identifying opportunities to improve revenue performance and maximise profit margins.,

• Assist in shaping long-term financial strategy through establishing a data-led approach and engaging with finance counterparts and the business to align key assumptions
• Contribute to the preparation of business cases, investment proposals and key projects, providing relevant analysis and insight to assess financial impact
• Support the finance team and wider business (including audio, sales, marketing, content and product divisions) in building annual business plans to inform the financial budget and forecasts
• Assist in identifying business drivers and developing a dashboard of key financial metrics to monitor and drive business performance
• Provide regular and ad hoc reporting and analysis to the wider business to inform key decisions and activities, include ongoing monitoring of initiative performance against financial and non-financial KPIs and project cost tracking
• Work with counterparts across the business to build robust and efficient data processes to improve business decisions and performance
  
  Advanced Excel skills with experience in analysing and modelling large data sets
• Previous experience of budgeting, business planning and forecasting
• Able to build and maintain effective working relationships across the organisation and work collaboratively across multiple functions
• Able to simplify and confidently communicate complex financial information to key stakeholders
• Able to prioritise and manage time effectively, managing deadlines and conflicting demands and using initiative to resolve day-to-day problems.
• Fully qualified accountant e.g. ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent, Knowledge of and/or experience in the media/broadcasting sector
  
  BBC Studios is a world-renowned content studio and channels & streaming business, powered by British creativity, with a reach that touches audiences in every corner of the globe.
We work with outstanding creative talent who are responsible for platform-defining shows from Strictly Come Dancing to Bluey, Eastenders, Prehistoric Planet and Planet Earth III. The range and quality of our content is unsurpassed, creating critical and commercial successes and global phenomena. From BAFTAs to RTS Awards, BBC Studios is Britain's most awarded production company and the only producer with three of the top ten shows on IMDB; we're the home of bbc.com, the widest-read English language news website in the world; and the UK's largest distributor of British content., The BBC is committed to building a culturally diverse workforce, that represents the audiences we serve, and encourages applications from candidates from any background, especially people from diverse communities. Equity of opportunity is important to us, and we endeavour to make our processes equal, fair and meritocratic for everybody. More information on our D&I plan can be found here. BBC Studios puts sustainability at the heart of everything we do both onscreen and offscreen, including delivering against the BBC Group's science-based Net Zero targets. More information on sustainability at BBC Studios can be found here.


• We offer a competitive salary package
• Flexible 35-hour working week for work-life balance
• Parental leave for new parents, regardless of gender, of up to a year with 18 weeks fully paid
• 26 days holiday (plus an additional day 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
• A comprehensive Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Excellent career progression - access to courses, webinars, workshops and the opportunity to work in different areas of the organisation