BBC Studios
Finance Analyst - Management Reporting
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JOB DETAILS
JOB BAND
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CONTRACT TYPE
9 Month Fixed-term Contract, Full-time
DEPARTMENT
BBC
LOCATION
London – Television Centre
PROPOSED SALARY RANGE
Up to £60,000 plus £5,441 London Weighting depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.
WE ARE BBC STUDIOS
A globally renowned media company borne of the BBC. We make and distribute the world’s most sought-after TV, audio and digital content.
Our ambition is to be the home of the most powerful, entertaining, and inspiring stories for people all around the world.
PURPOSE OF THE ROLE
As Finance Business Analyst, Management Reporting, you will play a key role in delivering consolidated management reporting across the BBC Commercial Group. Supporting Executive Committee and Board-level reporting, you will turn complex financial data into meaningful insight, helping senior stakeholders understand performance, risks and opportunities. Working across finance, technology and business teams, you'll help improve reporting quality, strengthen controls and drive better decision-making across the organisation.
WHY JOIN THE TEAM
This is an opportunity to work at the heart of BBC Commercial Finance, partnering with senior stakeholders across a diverse and dynamic business. You'll contribute to reporting that informs strategic decisions at the highest levels while helping shape improvements to systems, processes and financial insight. Joining a collaborative and forward-thinking team, you'll have the opportunity to influence change, develop your expertise and make a visible impact across the organisation.
Your Key Responsibilities And Impact
- Support the production of consolidated monthly and quarterly management reporting across the BBC Commercial Group, including Executive Committee and Board-level reporting.
- Analyse actual and forecast financial performance, identifying trends, risks, opportunities and key business drivers to support decision-making.
- Deliver clear, concise financial commentary and presentations, translating complex data into meaningful insight for finance and non-finance stakeholders.
- Support data validation, reconciliations, financial controls and reporting governance activities to ensure reporting outputs are accurate, complete and reliable.
- Identify and implement improvements to reporting processes, systems and automation opportunities that enhance efficiency, consistency and insight.
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Essential Criteria
YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
- Professionally qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent).
- Significant experience in management reporting within a complex, fast-paced and matrix-structured organisation.
- Strong understanding of management accounting, financial reporting processes, controls and data governance.
- Proven ability to analyse complex financial information and translate findings into actionable business insights and recommendations.
- Excellent stakeholder management, communication and influencing skills, with advanced Excel and analytical capability.
Desired But Not Required
- Experience preparing management reporting and insight for senior leadership, Executive Committees and Board-level audiences.
- Experience working within media, entertainment or another complex commercial organisation.
- Knowledge of SAP S/4HANA, SAP ECC, SAP BPC, SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) or similar finance systems.
- Experience supporting financial controls, audit requirements, ICFR, EMC or related compliance frameworks.
- Demonstrated experience driving process improvements, reporting automation and finance systems enhancements.
If you can bring some of these skills and experience, along with transferable strengths, we’d love to hear from you and encourage you to apply.
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Disclaimer
This job description is a written statement of the essential characteristics of the job, with its principal accountabilities, incorporating a note of the skills, knowledge and experience required for a satisfactory level of performance. This is not intended to be a complete, detailed account of all aspects of the duties involved.
Please note: If you were to be offered this role, the BBC will conduct Employment screening checks which include Reference checks; Eligibility to work checks; and if applicable to the role, Safeguarding and Adverse media/Social media checks. Any offer made is conditional on these checks being satisfactory.
Before your start date, you may need to disclose any unspent convictions or police charges, in line with our Recruitment policy. This allows us to discuss any support you may need and assess any risks. Failure to disclose may result in the withdrawal of your offer.
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Redeployment
The BBC is committed to redeploying employees seeking suitable alternative employment within the BBC 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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