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Finance

Permanent - Full Time

Cardiff, GB, CF10 1FT London, GB, W1A 1AA

BBC PUBLIC SERVICE B'CAST

Job Closing Date: 25/5/2025

Job Reference: 21443
Band: E
Salary: Up-to £85,000 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.
Contract type: Permanent
Location: Cardiff or London

Closing date for applications is at 23:59 on 25th May 2025

We're happy to discuss flexible working. Please indicate your choice under the flexible working question in the application. There is no obligation to raise this at the application stage but if you wish to do so, you are welcome to. Flexible working will be part of the discussion at offer stage.

• 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.

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We are recruiting an FP&A Manager for the provision of high-quality financial planning and analysis (FP&A) within the FP&A function in BBC Finance. This role is critical to ensuring the delivery of robust short and medium term Divisional financial plans, as well overseeing the provision of insightful analysis which supports business decisions.

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• Significant experience of preparing robust short to medium term financial budgets and forecasts
• Innovative mindset and willingness to adopt new technologies
• Exceptional analytical and communication skills
• Service delivery focused with ability to lead and co-ordinate a team

• Work with Senior stakeholders and the Finance teams to understand the end-to-end divisional performance.
• Delivery of Divisional budgets/forecasts in line with Group reporting requirements.
• Oversee the delivery of insightful management reports to both Business and Finance stakeholders by FP&A team.
• Drive forward and evolve Divisional/business management information and reporting based on evolving reporting requirements
• Oversee the delivery of any central Finance reporting requirements
• Be a central point of contact for the Divisional Finance Director, supporting the delivery of the Divisional Finance support model alongside the Senior Finance Business Partner
• Undertake direct line management duties alongside talent development of the FP&A team

• Strong FP&A technical knowledge, coupled with excellent analytical skills and commercial acumen
• Significant experience of end to end financial budgeting and forecasting
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to identify key trends, generate insight and deliver strategic narrative from data and numbers to inform and drive decision making
• Willingness to embrace and support the adoption of new technologies to evolve our approach to budgeting/forecasting and management information
• Proven experience of working with senior stakeholders across both Finance and non-Finance teams to influence decision making.
• Ability to manage numerous stakeholders and ability to explain complex financial information to both finance and non-finance stakeholders
• Have excellent planning and coordination skills to ensure that results are delivered and deadlines met.
• Experience of leading and coordinating finance teams to deliver a high-quality FP&A service, coupled with the ability to work and collaborate across multi-disciplined finance teams
• Hold a professional accounting qualification (e.g., ACA, ACCA, CIMA, CPA)

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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.

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