Finance Business Partner

JOB BAND: E
CONTRACT TYPE: Eighteen week fixed-term Contract, Full-time.
DEPARTMENT: News, BBC Finance Group
LOCATION: London - Hybrid
PROPOSED SALARY RANGE: £75,000 - £85,000pa, depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights. The successful candidate will also receive a London Weighting allowance of £5,441.

We're happy to discuss flexible working. If you'd like to, please indicate your preference in the application - though there's no obligation to do so now. Flexible working will be part of the discussion at offer stage.

Overview

We are now looking for a Finance Business Partner to join our International News team based in London, as part of News and Current Affairs Finance. You will be working with the UK Operations, Business Operations and Distribution Leaderships teams. This is an eighteen-week fixed-term contract/attachment opportunity to cover paternity leave.

Your key responsibilities and impact

1. Unifying our core financial information from across the business to ensure strong financial management of our resources - including partnering with, influencing, and bringing together the Planning team, and the Divisional Financial Controller team to leverage key business insights and analysis.
2. Bespoke support to our strategic projects, including decision support and investment appraisal, working with Strategy, COO and Media Operations to develop/deliver transformational change, working with the Operations and Distribution teams to mesh together financial and performance data, and undertaking financial analysis to solve business problems and drive efficiency.

Your skills and experience

ESSENTIAL CRITERIA:

• A background in financial analysis and assessment that incorporates an ability to interpret and draw meaning from complex financial data (e.g. a professional accounting qualification such as ACA, ACCA or CIMA)
• A sense of curiosity to unpick, understand, and share the story told by the financial and other quantitative data
• A demonstrable passion for and knowledge of the BBC, including an understanding of our Group structure and the opportunities and challenges faced by our organisation
• An understanding and appreciation of News the division's activities and the value of the content to the BBC's public purposes.
• An ability to work with non-finance leaders and be pro-active in identifying opportunities for News and the wider BBC be it financial, process or audience impact.

If you can bring some of these skills and experiences, along with transferable strengths, we'd love to hear from you and encourage you to apply.

Other information

Before your start date, you may need to disclose any unspent convictions or police charges, in line with our Contracts of Employment 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.

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.

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.

Information at a Glance

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Life at BBC

Here you will benefit from:

• Fair pay and flexible benefits including a competitive salary package, a flexible 35-hour working week, 25 days annual leave with the option to buy an extra 5 days, a defined pension scheme and discounted dental, health care and gym.
• Excellent career and professional development.
• Support in your working life, including flexible working which you can discuss with us at any point during the application, selection or offer.
• A values-based organisation where the way we do things is important as what we do.

Benefits may vary if you are joining on an FTC basis or on an orchestra conditions contract.

Learn more about life at the BBC and our values in our candidate pack.

You belong

We have a working environment where we value and respect every individual's unique contribution, so all our employees feel that they can belong, thrive and achieve their full potential.

We want to attract the broadest range of talented people to join us. The more diverse our workforce, the better able we are to respond to and reflect our audiences in all their diversity.

We welcome applications from individuals, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief.

Find out more about diversity, inclusion and belonging in our strategy below.

Diversity, inclusion & belonging strategy

Disability confident

We are a disability confident employer. If you need to discuss adjustments or access requirements for the interview process, or to carry out this role, please contact us via email and we'd be happy to discuss:

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