Finance Business Partner (12m FTC)

Finance Business Partner

Division: Media & Entertainment

12 month fixed term contract

Location: London, White City or Salford, Media City with flexible and hybrid working options

Closing date: Sunday 26th February 2023

Why you should join us…

We connect with millions of people every day, make content they can't get enough of and reflect and shape the world we live in… and we do all this through the power of creativity.

At ITV, our corporate teams work smart and work fast. We’re one of the most talked-about brands. With a variety of roles across HR, Finance and Legal, you’ll find a position that challenges you, enabling you to have a real impact on your career, on our viewers and our strategic ambitions - and still have a life outside work.

The Team

The role will support the Media & Entertainment Division (M&E), in particular the Content & Marketing and Partnerships & Distribution business areas.

The M&E division of ITV is an exciting area of the business. It is future focussed and is made up of an array of functions. The M&E finance team are considered to be trusted advisors to the business and therefore are part of a large team of people helping to shape the future of television, streaming and culture (find out more below!).

The Role

We have a new opportunity for a Finance Business Partner to join our M&E Finance team on a 12 month fixed term contract basis.

Reporting to the Senior Finance Business Partner, you will work directly with a wide range of business stakeholders to provide strategic commercial support, enable the investment and savings agenda and turn data into insights to support key decision making.

As Finance Business Partner, you’ll be tasked with facilitating performance through key value drivers and measuring outcomes through KPI’s, metrics and financial performance; looking forward, predicting outcomes of resource allocation and investment decisions.

This role collaborates with the broader finance community at ITV to deliver value to the business, seeking technical and specialist support from the Group Finance functions, the FP&A Centre of Excellence and the Business Service Centre.

Key responsibilities

• Partner with and support business stakeholders and Finance Business Partners across the team to deliver business area financial outcomes and performance KPIs.
• Develop relationships with business stakeholders, working as a trusted advisor.
• Develop financial models to support strategic initiatives, ensuring outputs are fed into key stakeholders to support decision making.
• Work closely with the FP&A Centre of Excellence to provide support on financial reporting, forecasting, budgeting, planning, and analysis. Build on their work to add decision support and insights to reporting, ad hoc projects and financial planning.
• Strategic cost management of embedded functions, understanding and influencing key cost drivers, optimising value from the cost base.
• Review, challenge and prioritise investment cases, ensuring ROI measurement and benefits commitments are delivered.
• Develop plans, budgets and forecasts, exploring scenarios and options for driving improved outcomes / performance.
• Drive performance through high quality analysis and decision support.
• Predict future outcomes and identify opportunities and threats.
• Support the development and implementation of ITV's Content & Marketing and Partnerships & Distribution strategies.
• Monitor and provide insight into macroeconomic and industry trends, considering potential short, medium and long term impacts on business plans.

Minimum criteria

• Qualified accountant (CIMA/ACA/ACCA) or qualified by experience with good finance business partnering experience in a commercial organisation.

ITV strongly encourages applications for this role from candidates with a disability and as a Disability Confident Leader, we have committed to interview all candidates with a disability whose application meets the minimum criteria for the role (*minimum criteria above).

• There may be a few exceptions where we are not able to take all eligible candidates to the next stage due to the volume of applications.

Key criteria

• Strong engagement, presentation, and communication skills with all levels of the business.
• Strong analytical skills and demonstrable attention to detail.
• Previous experience of working in the media industry is beneficial.
• Experience of building and maintaining financial models
• Ability to find efficiencies and improve upon existing processes with creative and innovative solutions.
• Ability to work collaboratively with key stakeholders across the business.
• Previous experience of working with pan-discipline teams in dynamic organisations.

Media & Entertainment

M&E’s family of Channels (ITV1, ITV2, ITV3, ITV4, CITV, ITVBe) are watched by millions and offer programming for everyone; National and Regional news, Entertainment shows such as I’m a Celebrity and The Masked Singer, Daytime shows including This Morning and Tipping Point, outstanding dramas like Trigger Point, must see sporting tournaments like the Fifa World Cup, the FA Cup and Rugby World Cup as well as the Soaps Coronation Street and Emmerdale, groundbreaking documentaries, reality TV, films, US series and children's programming.

Alongside all of the amazing content we also sell advertising (we are the largest commercial broadcaster in the UK!) - We are responsible for the production of all ITV Sport coverage and Regional news and we are in the process of launching our new streaming service; ITVX.

Working in M&E finance allows you to work in an environment that is both creative and commercially focussed. We have a developed business partnering model with finance teams embedded within the business.

What we can offer

At ITV all of our eligible employees get an annual bonus. We’re a living wage employer - in fact we were the first UK broadcaster to sign up.

We look after our people at every stage of their career and through different life events. We provide all employees with digital health services, wellbeing support, income protection cover and life assurance, as well as enhanced family leave and pay.

We help everyone save today and also for tomorrow, with brilliant deals on high street and online shopping, a savings plan with the opportunity to buy discounted ITV shares and our DC Pension Plan, which ITV will also contribute to.

Plus, you can choose from a range of benefits to suit your lifestyle, from buying up to six weeks of extra holiday a year, private healthcare or a health cash plan, to saving money on a bike, gym membership or a brand-new low-emission car.

We're happy to discuss any support/personalisation you may need during our application process as part of our reasonable adjustments approach. Our email is talkingcareers@itv.com.