18244 – Senior Manager, Management Reporting

Location: London, UK

Length: 6 Months

Rate: £320 per day

Hours: 40 hours per week

Role Overview

Reporting to the Executive Director Management Reporting, the Senior Manager is a key role in the ITVP Management Reporting team – the primary point of day-to-day contact between Group Management and the Finance teams of the local Opcos. The role will work closely with the Finance Business Partners and will support the Executive Director in all group management reporting activities, including interaction with key Finance & Operations stakeholders. The team is responsible for ensuring that the Opcos provide financial planning and actual information to Group on a timely basis; and for collating and presenting regular management & financial reporting and analysis to Group senior management, including 5-year plans (“LTP”), together with appropriate variance analysis, KPI and commentary.

The role is responsible for reporting process management, the consolidation, reporting & analysis of monthly and forecast cycle management information, including preparation of the Group Finance Reports for ITVP Senior Management in line with Burbank timetable.

Responsibilities:

• Consolidate Group management reporting packs on a timely basis (monthly actual results, monthly full-year forecasts, quarterly re-forecasts, annual budgets and LTP), including analysis, KPI and commentary for Group senior management.
• Responsibility for management of month end, quarter end and quarterly reforecast/budget processes, including preparation of consolidated analysis & commentary, monthly Flash and ITVP Group Finance reports and other close sign off materials, working closely with Business Partners and Opcos as needed, to ensure all material variances are explained.
• Including preparation & retention of documentation required for SOX processes.
• Ownership of all the reporting calendar & timelines, ensuring that the Opco Finance teams and Management Reporting team fully understand and comply with Group reporting timetables for all relevant Finance deliverables.
• In conjunction with the Corporate Reporting team, own and communicate the planning & reporting timetables.
• Ensure financial planning and reporting highlights are shared with the Finance Management Team in a timely manner.
• Review & consolidation of monthly P&L and cash flow forecast updates and related variance analysis.
• Own the process for upgrading, co-ordination and consolidation of programme slates, per episode revenues and CoS, Ultimate’s and by-title costing forecasts during relevant financial planning and reporting cycles.
• Ownership of the Group & Opco finance management reporting templates, supporting information sources and data hierarchies.
• Preparation of presentation materials for consolidated Group annual LTP review with WBTVG senior management.
• Extract & highlight relevant trends, risks and opportunities within management information to the Executive Director, Management Reporting.
• Take ownership of the development of management KPI’s including establishing/enhancing processes to leverage SAP based reporting and other sources of management information.
• Active involvement/leadership of system projects (enhancements & new systems eg Business Objects slate reporting) and reporting simplification processes to ensure the department is leveraging technology and process efficiencies to allow greater focus on value added management information & reporting.

Experience & Qualifications

• Qualified Accountant (ACA/ACCA/CIMA) or equivalent international, graduate or business-related qualification, with approx 5-7 years post-qualified experience.
• Highly numerate with excellent excel skills, including financial modeling and pivot tables.
• Experience of working in the international TV production and/or format business, in a multinational, multicurrency environment.
• Detail oriented with strong financial reporting and analysis presentation skills, including dashboards and charting.
• Strong analytical skills, including the ability quickly to grasp the “big picture” and exhibit judgment in drawing conclusions and solving problems.
• Excellent technical and systems skills (including development of reporting templates etc.).
• Budgeting and reporting experience, including reporting systems, with specific exposure to SAP BW reporting.
• Exposure to international accounting / US GAAP standards preferred.
• Strong organizational skills and ability to successfully manage multiple tasks simultaneously, working under pressure and to tight deadlines.
• Good team player with an ability to operate in a collaborative manner.