Job Description
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Job Introduction
We are now looking for a Head of Finance International - Business Partnering and Global Controls to join our International News team based in London, as part of News and Current Affairs Finance.
The role holder will deliver a best in class international business partnering service to Global Director and Deputy CEO BBC News and Current Affairs and senior global leadership team.
This is a key leadership role for a global team, reporting to the Finance Director, focused on International Business Partnering and Controls (UK & International). Deputise for the Finance Director as required.
The News and Current Affairs team plays a key operational and strategic role in News and Current Affairs, a division which includes; all high profile network news programming, World Service (spanning 42 languages), World TV News, BBC Monitoring, World Service English TV, Radio and Online, Content journalists and UK and International Digital teams, and an overseas office infrastructure that supports local output and newsgathering reaching a weekly audience in the hundreds of millions.
The Finance team ensures the division meets its strategic objectives in the most efficient but compliant way, and is organised around 5 pillars of activity:
* Business Partnering - supporting and influencing business decision-making, driving efficiency, the management of risk mitigation and ensuring adherence to all regulatory and stakeholder requirements.
* Local Accounting - supporting the business with local information, and real time 'what-if' analysis as well as being a bridge into Group Finance teams covering Controls, Financial Planning and Insights and Financial Operations and systems.
* Analytics and Business Performance - combining both financial and non-financial information to help drive favourable business outcomes and also the ideation and progression of cost savings initiatives and business cases supporting, advising and challenging the International business.
* International risk, compliance, and controls - ensuring we can continue to operate in a range of challenging business circumstances and an ever evolving regulatory framework across multiple countries with a robust control process and monitoring system. Identify, recommend actions and escalate within the News Division and Group functions as required
* Payments and business administration to support deployments (at times critical) across the world - centralised to ensure consistency, efficiency and compliance of approach.
Main Responsibilities
As Head of Finance International - Business Partnering and Global Controls, you will:
* Drive forward change in complex areas of the business by defining financial strategy and delivering high profile corporate initiatives.
* Take ownership for ensuring best value for licence payers in specific areas by using an evidenced based approach to identify improvements in the business model and then effectively project manage these improvements with the business.
* Oversee and lead a rigorous International and UK Financial Control environment
* Deliver a best in class international business partnering service to the Global Director and Deputy CEO BBC News and leadership team. Deputise Finance Director as required.
This is a role with profile and real impact. You will provide leadership to a team of Control and Business Partnering Finance Business Partners within local UK team (numbers will vary) and Finance teams outside the UK within the six new Regional HQs as part of Global/International Operating Model.
Are you the right candidate?
You will possess demonstrate experience of working in a leadership role focused on Business Partnering and Global Controls and operating within an International and UK Financial Control environment, with familiarity of dealing with risk. This may be experience gained in the Media industry, a regulated industry or within a large organisation or consultancy environment.
To be successful in this role you will need:
* Proven experience of delivering high profile projects at pace and managing change within an organisation with operating experience at both a group and divisional level.
* Demonstrable experience of set up, implementation, monitoring and tracking of international financial controls in complex jurisdictions and environments.
* Excellent interpersonal, and communication skills, including the ability to influence senior stakeholders and present complex data in an accessible way.
* Experience designing and monitoring governance systems in-line with principles of managing public money. Deep understanding of financial risk management and control.
* Experience of working with financial accounting systems and the ability to understand, interpret and communicate complex financial data to a range of audiences. This will be supported by a professional accounting qualification (i.e. ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent).
Package Description
Band: F
Contract type Permanent
Location: Any of the main Hubs - London, Cardiff, Belfast, Glasgow or Salford with some hybrid working
Salary: Anticipated range £118,000 to £125,000pa (plus London Weighting £5,319 if London based), dependent upon experience
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, gym and much more.
If you need to discuss adjustments or access requirements for the interview process please contact the reasonable.adjustments@bbc.co.uk For any general queries, please contact: bbchr@bbc.co.uk
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