Group Finance Analyst
Role Overview
Finance Analyst – Management Reporting & Consolidation role in BBC Commercial Group Finance, combining financial reporting expertise with finance systems ownership.
Deliver consolidated management reporting to senior stakeholders and support the integrity of consolidation and reporting systems.
Key Skills for This Role
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Role purpose
Finance Analyst – Management Reporting & Consolidation role in BBC Commercial Group Finance, combining financial reporting expertise with finance systems ownership.
Deliver consolidated management reporting to senior stakeholders and support the integrity of consolidation and reporting systems.
Management reporting and consolidation
- Support monthly and quarterly consolidated management reporting across BBC Commercial Group.
- Prepare reporting for senior leadership, Executive Committee and Board audiences.
- Analyse financial performance, trends, risks, opportunities and key drivers.
- Review and challenge finance team submissions for accuracy and consistency.
- Support financial controls and governance across the reporting cycle.
Finance systems and data management
- Act as a key finance contact for SAP BPC and related consolidation and reporting systems.
- Investigate and resolve consolidation, data-load and reporting issues with Finance Technology teams and third-party providers.
- Validate actuals, forecasts and planning data for completeness, accuracy and consistency.
- Support system testing, enhancements, upgrades and change initiatives, including UAT.
- Identify and support automation, process improvement, dashboard, reporting-tool and user-experience opportunities.
- Create guidance, training materials and best-practice resources for finance users as needed.
Essential criteria
- ACA, ACCA or CIMA professional accounting qualification, or equivalent relevant finance experience.
- Corporate finance experience in management reporting, financial consolidation and control processes.
- Experience with SAP BPC, SAP S/4HANA, SAP ECC or similar finance consolidation and reporting systems.
- Ability to analyse, reconcile and validate large financial datasets accurately.
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills; able to explain finance and systems issues to non-finance audiences.
Desirable experience
- Finance systems support, user queries, issue resolution, testing or system enhancements.
- Reporting for Executive Committee or Board audiences.
- Reporting automation, dashboard development or visualization tools such as SAP Analytics Cloud.
- Working across Finance and Technology in a complex, matrix organization.
- Knowledge of audit and control frameworks such as ICFR or EMC.
Salary and employment
- Permanent, full-time contract.
- Proposed salary up to £60,000, plus £5,441 London weighting, depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience.
Location
- London – Television Centre.
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