Head of Finance, Brands & Licensing - Consumer Products & Licensing FTC

Head of Finance, Brands & Licensing - Consumer Products & Licensing FTC

Finance

Fixed Term - Full Time

London, GB, W12 7FA

Job Closing Date: 7/2/25

THE ROLE

BBC Studios is a world-renowned content studio and channels & streaming business, powered by British creativity, with a reach that touches audiences in every corner of the globe.

As a result of the incumbent Head of Commercial Finance for CP&L stepping up into a 12-month maternity cover for the Finance Director, BBC Studios is recruiting a Head of Commercial Finance on a 12-month fixed term contract. This role will be pivotal in providing critical business partnering support to both the SVP of Global Consumer Products and the SVP of Global Licensing. This role will manage a team of 5, including a newly-established Finance Business Analyst role that will be dedicated to the Bluey brand specifically.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Business Partnering

• Develop strong collaborative relationships with the SVPs and their direct reports and provide informed forward-looking financial plans and insights, and support strategic decision making.
• Translate financial data into actionable business strategies, improving financial performance and ensuring alignment with overall business goals.
• Demonstrate a thorough understanding of commercial business models and key partnership contracts to support the leadership team's decision making.
• Provide recommendations in a timely manner to both finance and business teams across BBC Studios on how to resolve key financial and business issues related to the portfolio.
• Oversee and project manage all aspects of financial planning, analysis and quarterly forecasting/budgeting across the portfolio.
• Prepare rolling profit/loss and cash flow forecasts.
• Contribute insightful written commentary into monthly commercial priority packs, as well as into quarterly forecasting / budgeting presentations that are submitted to the Studios Executive Committee.
• Lead on the preparation and consolidation of the annual long range plan process for all businesses in the portfolio and provide financial analysis to support long term decision-making across the organization.
• With the support of the newly established Finance Business Analyst - Bluey role, take ownership of delivering key reporting, insights and contributions to Bluey Steering Committee packs specifically related to the Bluey brand, which is the main revenue driver of the CP&L portfolio.

Analysis & Insight

• Deliver high quality financial and business analysis related to the portfolio with recommendations for solving business problems and to influence and challenge business decisions.
• Deliver forward looking global scenario planning to proactively inform commercial and operational decision making that will ensure BBCS is investing the right level of overheads to support the portfolio while maintaining margin targets.
• Deliver effective financial and business analytical support for divisional projects/business initiatives - helping to improve business decisions and divisional performance.
• Promote and deliver improvements through identifying and recommending opportunities for efficiencies and value generation.

Business Case Development

• Collaborate with the SVPs and their direct reports in the preparation and submission of deal approval papers that need to go to the Brands and Licensing Approval Committee.
• Using a strong background in financial modelling and business case development, work with the Finance Business Analysts to prepare and contribute financial modelling and insights into the submission papers.

Support with risk management

• Recommend and implement process improvement to continually improve the control environment of the portfolio's financial reporting, processes and practices that will give the business confidence in the value generated by the business.

Team leadership and collaboration

• Lead and mentor the team of finance business analysts, promoting a culture of transparency, integrity, and excellence.
• Ensure Finance Business Analysts and the relevant Finance teams are informed of issues, analysis and decisions that impact them or require their support/views.
• Collaborate with commercial, finance, legal, group, corporate and strategy teams both centrally and regionally across all divisions of BBC Studios.

WHAT DOES IT TAKE?

ESSENTIAL CRITERIA:

• A professional accounting qualification. e.g. CIMA, ACA, ACCA, or equivalent.
• Significant experience in a Head of Commercial Finance role with demonstrable team management experience.
• Excellent interpersonal, analytical and communication skills; capable of collaborating with and influencing stakeholders at all levels across the business.
• Experience delivering high-quality management information reporting and analytics.
• Excellent financial modelling and business case development experience.
• Proven ability to identifying opportunities for revenue generation, cost management and value generation.
• Ability to interpret contracts and apply these to financial business case and forecasting models.
• Ability to take complex data/principles and to communicate these in an understandable way.
• Highly developed written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience in a large global matrix organisational environment.

DESIRABLE CRITERIA:

• Experience in the media and entertainment industry.
• Familiarity with licensing business models.

PACKAGE DESCRIPTION

Job Reference: 21358
Band: F
Contract type: FTC
Salary: £80,000- £95,000, depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience, plus London Weighting of £5,319 and bonus. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.
Location: Office Base is London Television Centre. This is a hybrid role and the successful candidate will balance office working with home working.

DISCLAIMER

This job description is a written statement of the essential characteristics of the job, with its principal accountabilities, incorporating a note of the skills, knowledge and experience required for a satisfactory level of performance. This is not intended to be a complete, detailed account of all aspects of the duties involved.