Commercial Finance Analyst

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Reporting to: VP Commercial Finance, ANZ

Working rights: Candidates must have Australian full working rights.

Working for BBC Studios, we are all part of a premium content and production company that inspires global audiences. We are proud to represent some of the world's biggest, most trusted and loved content brands. In Australia and New Zealand, we bring the best of bold, British storytelling to our region through distributing content to broadcasters, our seven branded services on subscription platforms and our own local production arm, as well as other commercial partnerships such as live entertainment and licensing.

Our Values: Audiences. Creativity. Trust. Respect. Accountability. One BBC.

The Commercial Finance Analyst is responsible for providing support across the Commercial Planning & Analysis (CP&A) function to deliver the forecasting and budgeting cycles, provide analytical review, financial modelling and analysis across various business units within the ANZ distribution business, and more broadly into the Global Media & Streaming division. This role will work closely with the VP, Commercial Finance, ANZ, Commercial Finance Analyst peers and the wider finance team across BBC ANZ and overseas.

Data Preparation and Analysis:

• Gather, organise, and maintain financial data from various sources.
• Analyse financial trends and performance, identifying variances against budgets and forecasts.
• Assist VP Commercial Finance with preparing and updating financial models to support business decision-making.

Reporting:

• Develop and prepare monthly, quarterly, annual financial and KPI reporting to the business.
• Provide key insights and summary analysis for stakeholders across the business.
• Support the creation of dashboards and visualizations to present financial metrics clearly.

Budgeting and Forecasting:

• Prepare budgets and forecasts at each cycle, including analysis of past performance, maintaining the rolling forecast, and uploading data to the finance system (BPC).
• Assist with the mid/long-range planning process and other projects as required. Including project in-year and long-term revenues; assist cost centre managers in accurately forecasting costs and planning future expenditure.

Business Partnering & Relationships

• Understand end-to-end business processes and systems used across various functions such as Sales, Marketing, Content, Operations, Finance and Legal working closely with the regional and central functional teams.
• Regular contact with VP, Commercial Finance, Commercial Finance Analyst peers and business area stakeholders through face-to-face and virtual meetings

Ad-Hoc Analysis:

• Perform ad-hoc analysis as required to address specific business queries.
• Create and update business process documents;
• Assist VP Commercial Finance with:
• Business case modelling and analysis on new products, business lines, events, promotions and campaigns;
• Market analysis of TV Broadcast, Digital/SVOD, IPTV and Merchandising, Live Events and Home Entertainment sectors in Australia, NZ and the Pacific;
• Work with external partners to develop a deeper understanding of Business drivers and improve processes;
• Developing and utilising financial models used by the CP&A team

Process Improvements:

• Understand current systems and processes to identify divisional needs and propose new systems or processes that deliver added value.
• Utilise power BI / AI sources in line with company policy to streamline and automate processes.

• Experience with budgeting and forecasting.
• Strong analytical ability.
• Experience with power BI / AI automation tools
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Effective management of conflicting priorities and achievement of successful outcomes.
• Drive and enthusiasm; a genuine desire to learn about the business and develop self.
• Experience using accounting software packages; SAP (S4 and BPC) desirable.
• Degree qualified in Finance, Business, statistics or similar discipline

• 25 days of annual leave
• 18 weeks paid parental leave
• Annual Skin Checks
• Employee Assistance Program
• Access to LinkedIn Learning and Sanctus Coaching

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Information at a Glance

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