Overview

Job Requisition ID: 24852

Job Closing Date: 28 September 2025

Belfast, GBR, BT2 8HQ

JOB DETAILS

JOB BAND: D

CONTRACT TYPE: Permanent, Full-time.

DEPARTMENT: Nations Finance team, BBC Group Finance

LOCATION: Based in Belfast with some Hybrid working

PROPOSED SALARY RANGE: c.£50,000pa, depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.

We\'re happy to discuss flexible working. If you\'d like to, please indicate your preference in the application - though there\'s no obligation to do so now. Flexible working will be part of the discussion at offer stage.

Purpose of the role

Finance Business Analysts (FBAs) support the BBC in delivering best value from the licence fee within each business area. FBAs focus on forward looking, large scale and/or high-impact commercial and investment decisions, and support effective financial planning within their area. They work alongside Finance Business Partners delivering financial and business analysis to help solve key business problems, progress local initiatives answer business questions and influence business decisions.

Why join the team

This is an exciting opportunity to join the Nations Finance team within BBC Public Service and will work across both Northern Ireland and Nations\' business Operations. Work will include supporting the drafting of business cases and their implementation, monitoring delivery of financial benefits for the whole division alongside data driven analysis and insight as required, working with the business to develop investment cases (often in TV), identifying and implementing process improvements, and supporting business reporting. The role will report directly into the Senior Finance Business Partner.

Your key responsibilities and impact

• Own and deliver high quality financial and business analysis with options and recommendations to solve business problems and to influence and challenge business decisions
• Analyse financial and non-financial data, performance, risks and issues to identify underlying business trends or themes that need to be addressed, sharing external and BBC wide knowledge and good practice
• Deliver high quality supporting papers, reports, briefing notes (as required) across all work areas, for sharing and discussion with the Finance Business Partner / Finance Director / Senior Management or Divisional and Departmental Boards
• Promote and deliver improvements through identifying and recommending opportunities for efficiencies and value generation
• Build and develop strong relationships with key business and finance stakeholders and maintain effective and collaborative working relationships across the business and the Finance community
• Maintain up to date knowledge and understanding of the different business areas, including their underlying cost drivers and key strategic challenges and opportunities
• Reference and champion external and BBC-wide knowledge of best practice in financial analysis, ways of working and commercial performance

Your skills and experience

ESSENTIAL CRITERIA:

• Analytical skills - The right candidate will also be able to demonstrate a high proficiency in the use of Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint, able to manipulate large financial and non-financial datasets and extract useful insights which they can present clearly and compellingly - ultimately driving and influencing decision making.
• Problem solving - identifying key objectives and resolving challenges on a timely basis; communicating next steps to ensure management take informed decisions
• Task management - scoping of work from the outset, establishing clear timelines and milestones, and prioritising/escalating issues to ensure timely delivery
• Relationships - building strong relationships and influencing a broad range of stakeholders, including those in executive leadership positions
• Industry knowledge - either experience working in the media sector, or a keen interest and ability to discuss its trends, direction of travel, and relevance to the BBC

DESIRABLE BUT NOT REQUIRED:

A professional accounting qualification ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent qualification or part qualification would be of significant benefit.

Note this is not a technical Business Analyst role

Before your start date, you may need to disclose any unspent convictions or police charges, in line with our Contracts of Employment policy. This allows us to discuss any support you may need and assess any risks. Failure to disclose may result in the withdrawal of your offer.

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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.

Please note: If you were to be offered this role, the BBC will conduct Employment screening checks which include Reference checks; Eligibility to work checks; and if applicable to the role, Safeguarding and Adverse media/Social media checks. Any offer made is conditional on these checks being satisfactory.

For any general queries, please contact: bbchr@bbc.co.uk

Redeployment

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. Priority consideration means for those employees seeking redeployment their application will be considered alongside anyone else at risk of redundancy, prior to any individuals being considered who are not at risk.

Information at a Glance

This is your BBC

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.

Find out more about the BBC

Life at BBC

Here you will benefit from:

• Fair pay and flexible benefits including a competitive salary package, a flexible 35-hour working week, 25 days annual leave with the option to buy an extra 5 days, a defined pension scheme and discounted dental, health care and gym.
• Excellent career and professional development.
• Support in your working life, including flexible working which you can discuss with us at any point during the application, selection or offer.
• A values-based organisation where the way we do things is important as what we do.

Benefits may vary if you are joining on an FTC basis.

Learn more about life at the BBC and our values in our candidate pack.

Candidate pack

You belong

We have a working environment where we value and respect every individual\'s unique contribution, so all our employees feel that they can belong, thrive and achieve their full potential.

We want to attract the broadest range of talented people to join us. The more diverse our workforce, the better able we are to respond to and reflect our audiences in all their diversity.

We welcome applications from individuals, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief.

Find out more about diversity, inclusion and belonging in our strategy below.

Diversity, inclusion & belonging strategy

Disability confident

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 and we\'d be happy to discuss: reasonable.adjustments@bbc.co.uk