Finance Business Partner

JOB DETAILS

JOB BAND: E
CONTRACT TYPE: Eighteen week fixed-term Contract Full-time.
DEPARTMENT: News BBC Finance Group
LOCATION: London Hybrid
PROPOSED SALARY RANGE: 75000 - 85000pa 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 5441.

Were happy to discuss flexible working. If youd like to please indicate your preference in the application though theres no obligation to do so now. Flexible working will be part of the discussion at offer stage.

PURPOSE OF THE ROLE

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.

WHY JOIN THE TEAM

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.

YOUR KEY RESPONSIBILITIES AND IMPACT:

This Finance Business Partner role will focus on two key aspects of our work:
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 divisions activities and the value of the content to the BBCs 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 wed love to hear from you and encourage you to apply.

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.

Close date 19 March 2026.