Senior Finance Analyst

Location: Soho, London (Hybrid – minimum 3 days in office)

About the Team

PPL’s Finance team manages the planning, organising, auditing and accounting for the company’s finances. They are responsible for all incoming and outgoing payments, including making over 150,000 payments to performers and recording rightsholders annually.

What you’ll be doing

Delivering high-quality financial planning, analysis and insight, enabling senior stakeholders to make informed commercial and investment decisions through robust, evidence-based analysis.

PPL has implemented a new ERP platform (Workday and Adaptive Planning), providing a strong foundation for enhanced reporting and analysis. The Senior Finance Analyst will work closely with the Finance Director and FP&A Manager to further develop financial reporting and commercial analysis.

Key Responsibilities

• Deliver timely financial insight, analysis and market context to support informed strategic and operational decision making.
• Partner with senior managers, budget holders and the FP&A Manager to inform budgeting, investment analysis, project activity and identification of key financial risks and opportunities.
• Use market data, analysis and insight to inform strategic commercial decisions and recommendations, track KPIs and produce clear, insightful performance reporting.
• Identify and evaluate opportunities for commercial business partnering (e.g. evaluation of international mandates, tariffs, UK licensing commercial initiatives and technology investment).
• Translate complex financial and operational data into clear, actionable insight.
• Deliver efficient, insightful financial planning and analysis to support business decision-making and investment evaluation, ensuring reporting is complete, timely and accurate across all key reporting cycles (month end, forecast cycles, Budget and long-range plan).
• Maintain focus on efficient planning cycles, clear communication and delivery of key business outputs.
• Identify key financial risks and opportunities, track performance against plan and support the development of risk mitigation actions in partnership with the business.
• Partner with the Finance Controllership team to assess balance sheet impacts and support effective cash collection.
• Drive continuous improvement in FP&A models, reporting and analytical processes, leveraging systems and tools to enhance the quality, timeliness and impact of insight.
• Develop effective working relationships with internal stakeholders and relevant third parties, supporting the provision and interpretation of financial information where required.