Group Finance Analyst – EXTEND Full Time NEW

JOB BAND: D

CONTRACT TYPE: Permanent, Full-time

DEPARTMENT: BBC Studios Finance

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.

BBC EXTEND

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WE ARE BBC STUDIOS

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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

Join BBC Commercial Group Finance as a Group Finance Analyst – Management Reporting & Consolidation, where you’ll sit at the heart of both financial reporting and finance systems. You’ll deliver high‑quality consolidated reporting for senior leadership, Executive Committee and Board audiences, while ensuring data accuracy, strong controls and smooth system operation across SAP S/4 and BPC. This role blends finance insight, systems capability and process improvement – driving better reporting, stronger governance and more informed decision‑making across the Commercial Group.

WHY JOIN THE TEAM

You’ll be part of a collaborative, forward‑thinking finance team that values curiosity, problem‑solving and continuous improvement. This role is perfect for someone who enjoys combining core finance reporting expertise with hands‑on systems work, data quality, controls and stakeholder engagement across Finance and Technology. You’ll have the opportunity to shape reporting processes, enhance system capability and influence how financial insight is delivered across a complex, high‑profile commercial organisation.

Your Key Responsibilities And Impact

• Consolidated reporting: Support monthly and quarterly management reporting across the Commercial Group, including Executive Committee and Board outputs.
• Financial insight: Prepare clear written and verbal commentary, analysing trends, risks, opportunities and key drivers.
• Data validation: Validate actuals, forecasts and planning data across SAP S/4, BPC and related tools to ensure accuracy and completeness.
• Systems & issue resolution: Act as a key contact for consolidation queries, system defects and data load issues, working closely with Finance Technology and external providers.
• Process improvement: Identify and deliver improvements to reporting, consolidation and automation, including SAC dashboard development and standardisation initiatives.

Essential Criteria

YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

• Professional accounting qualification (ACA, ACCA, CIMA) or equivalent relevant finance experience.
• Strong experience in management reporting, consolidation and financial controls.
• Ability to work confidently with large financial datasets, including analysis, reconciliation and validation.
• Clear written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain financial information to varied audiences.
• Experience using ERP, consolidation or reporting systems within a Record to Report environment.
• Strong stakeholder management capability, with confidence to challenge inputs and manage deadlines.
• Advanced Excel proficiency and strong analytical ability.
• Proactive approach to continuous improvement, standardisation and automation.

Desired But Not Required

• Experience producing senior‑level management reporting for Executive Committee or Board audiences.
• Background in a matrix organisation, ideally within media, entertainment or a similarly complex environment.
• Hands‑on experience with SAP S/4, ECC, BPC or SAC.
• Experience with data transformation and reconciliation across finance systems.
• Exposure to finance systems support, including query resolution, UAT, defect management or change requests.
• Familiarity with audit and control frameworks such as ICFR or EMC.
• Experience creating training materials or user guidance for finance systems.
• Ability to coach users and promote best practice across a finance community.

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.

We appreciate your interest in this position and understand how important this opportunity is to you. Due to the high volume of interest, we may need to close the application period earlier than anticipated. This step is necessary to ensure we can provide a high level of attention and service to all applicants. Thank you for your understanding.

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Disclaimer

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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.