Senior FBP - International Regions Lead 22750

Job Introduction

We are now looking for a Senior Finance Business Partner International Regions 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 6 Regional Directors and will ensure there are strong financial controls and financial compliance in each region.

This is a key leadership role for a global team reporting to the Head of Finance International Business Partnering and Global Controls. This role will be working on regional strategy and key business growth proposals

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 decisionmaking 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 whatif 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 nonfinancial 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 Senior Finance Business Partner International Regions you will:

• Drive forward change across all 6 regions of the business by defining financial strategy and delivering high profile corporate initiatives for the regions.
• Take ownership for regular accounting budgeting and forecasting audit and driving revenue growth in respective regions ensuring that BBC News operates in compliant regional environment.
• Oversee and lead a rigorous International Financial Control environment and proactively identify and manage regional risks and issues including escalating them where required
• Deliver a best in class international business partnering service to the Regional Directors of BBC News and their leadership teams.

This is a role with profile and real impact. You will provide leadership to 6 regional finance teams and work closely with Head Office other finance teams/ functions. This role will need to ensure that outsourced service provider are delivering the transactional support as per required standards.

Are you the right candidate

You will possess demonstrate experience of working in a leadership role focused on International 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 inline 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: London based role 23 days in the office a week with some hybridworking
Salary: 115000 to 120000pa (plus London Weighting 5319 dependent upon experience

Were 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 inhouse Academy hosts a wide range of internal and external courses and certification.
• Benefits We offer a negotiable salary package a flexible 35hour working week for worklife 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.

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About the BBC

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