At a Glance
- Tasks: Analyse financial data and create insightful reports for senior stakeholders.
- Company: Join the BBC, a globally renowned media company with a rich legacy.
- Benefits: Enjoy a competitive salary, flexible working hours, and generous annual leave.
- Other info: Diverse and inclusive workplace with excellent career development opportunities.
- Why this job: Make a real impact on strategic decisions in a dynamic and collaborative environment.
- Qualifications: Qualified accountant with experience in management reporting and strong analytical skills.
The predicted salary is between 60000 - 60541 £ per year.
Job Closing Date: 17 August 2026
Location: London, GBR, W12 7FA
Contract Type: 9 Month Fixed-term Contract, Full-time
Department: BBC
Proposed Salary Range: Up to £60,000 plus £5,441 London Weighting depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience.
Purpose of the Role:
As Finance Business Analyst, Management Reporting, you will play a key role in delivering consolidated management reporting across the BBC Commercial Group. Supporting Executive Committee and Board-level reporting, you will turn complex financial data into meaningful insight, helping senior stakeholders understand performance, risks and opportunities. Working across finance, technology and business teams, you'll help improve reporting quality, strengthen controls and drive better decision-making across the organisation.
Why Join the Team:
This is an opportunity to work at the heart of BBC Commercial Finance, partnering with senior stakeholders across a diverse and dynamic business. You'll contribute to reporting that informs strategic decisions at the highest levels while helping shape improvements to systems, processes and financial insight. Joining a collaborative and forward-thinking team, you'll have the opportunity to influence change, develop your expertise and make a visible impact across the organisation.
Your Key Responsibilities and Impact:
- Support the production of consolidated monthly and quarterly management reporting across the BBC Commercial Group, including Executive Committee and Board-level reporting.
- Analyse actual and forecast financial performance, identifying trends, risks, opportunities and key business drivers to support decision-making.
- Deliver clear, concise financial commentary and presentations, translating complex data into meaningful insight for finance and non-finance stakeholders.
- Support data validation, reconciliations, financial controls and reporting governance activities to ensure reporting outputs are accurate, complete and reliable.
- Identify and implement improvements to reporting processes, systems and automation opportunities that enhance efficiency, consistency and insight.
Your Skills and Experience:
Essential Criteria:
- Professionally qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent).
- Significant experience in management reporting within a complex, fast-paced and matrix-structured organisation.
- Strong understanding of management accounting, financial reporting processes, controls and data governance.
- Proven ability to analyse complex financial information and translate findings into actionable business insights and recommendations.
- Excellent stakeholder management, communication and influencing skills, with advanced Excel and analytical capability.
Desired but Not Required:
- Experience preparing management reporting and insight for senior leadership, Executive Committees and Board-level audiences.
- Experience working within media, entertainment or another complex commercial organisation.
- Knowledge of SAP S/4HANA, SAP ECC, SAP BPC, SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) or similar finance systems.
- Experience supporting financial controls, audit requirements, ICFR, EMC or related compliance frameworks.
- Demonstrated experience driving process improvements, reporting automation and finance systems enhancements.
The BBC is committed to redeploying employees seeking suitable alternative employment within the BBC and they will be given priority consideration ahead of other applicants.
At the BBC you can create and innovate in an inclusive environment while contributing to some of the world's best loved content, and the BBC's mission to inform, educate and entertain.
We welcome applications from individuals, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief.
We are a disability confident employer. If you need to discuss adjustments or access requirements for the interview process, or to carry out this role, please contact us via email.
Finance Analyst - Management Reporting employer: BBC UK
At BBC, we pride ourselves on being an excellent employer that fosters a collaborative and inclusive work culture. With flexible working arrangements and opportunities for professional growth, our Senior Accountant role not only allows you to lead a dynamic team but also offers the chance to make a meaningful impact across our finance operations. Join us in Cardiff and be part of an organisation that values innovation and employee development.
