Finance Director - Media Tech and Corporate Functions

BBC; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

The BBC is seeking a Finance Director–Strategic partner to lead financial strategy and performance across Media Tech and Corporate Functions. You will influence senior leadership, evaluate investments, and deliver high-quality financial insight to support long-term value creation.

This role balances strategic leadership with strong financial stewardship, ensuring resources are deployed effectively and governance is maintained.

Qualifications

• Significant senior finance leadership experience in a large organisation.
• Experience partnering with technology leadership teams and executive boards.
• Strong track record of shaping strategy and driving investment decisions.

Responsibilities

• Act as trusted adviser to senior leaders influencing strategy and investment decisions.
• Lead financial strategy, planning and performance across your portfolio balancing short-term delivery with long-term value.
• Provide rigorous analysis and independent judgement on major technology investments and transformation programmes.
• Drive financial and operational performance, identify risks and opportunities, and support BBC-wide objectives.
• Ensure strong financial governance and oversight of expenditure, risk management and reporting.
• Develop high-performing teams and contribute to the wider BBC Finance function.

Skills

Strategic leadership

Executive stakeholder management

Financial analysis

Commercial acumen

Change management

Education

Professional accounting qualification (ACA/ACCA/CIMA)

Tools

ERP & Financial systems

Data analysis tools

Job description

JOB DETAILS

JOB BAND: SL

CONTRACT TYPE: Permanent

DEPARTMENT: Group Finance and Operations

LOCATION: Flexible (UK)

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

As Finance Director, you will partner with the leadership teams across Media Tech, as well as a number of Corporate Functions including HR, Finance, Corporate Affairs, and Strategy & Transformation, providing strategic financial leadership, insight and challenge to support the delivery of business priorities and long-term value.

Acting as a trusted adviser to senior stakeholders, you will help shape strategy, evaluate investment opportunities and drive informed decision-making through high-quality financial insight and independent judgement. Balancing strategic leadership with strong financial stewardship, you will ensure resources are deployed effectively, performance is optimised and sustainable value is delivered.

Beyond your functional portfolio, you will play an active role in the wider Finance leadership community, collaborating across the BBC to support enterprise-wide priorities, strengthen financial capability and contribute to the organisation's long-term sustainability and success.

YOUR KEY RESPONSIBILITIES AND IMPACT

• Act as a trusted adviser to senior leaders across Media Tech and Corporate Functions, influencing strategy, investment decisions and business priorities through insightful financial leadership and challenge.
• Lead the financial strategy, planning and performance agenda across your portfolio, balancing short-term delivery with long-term sustainability, affordability and value creation.
• Provide rigorous analysis and independent judgement on major technology investments, transformation programmes and strategic initiatives, ensuring resources are directed towards opportunities that deliver the greatest organisational impact.
• Drive financial and operational performance across the portfolio, identifying risks, opportunities and productivity improvements while supporting the delivery of divisional and BBC-wide objectives.
• Ensure strong financial stewardship, governance and control, safeguarding the integrity of financial reporting and maintaining effective oversight of expenditure, compliance and risk management.
• Develop high-performing teams and build organisational capability, while contributing to the leadership and continuous improvement of the wider BBC Finance function.

CANDIDATE PROFILE

We're Looking For a Strategic And Commercially Minded Finance Leader Who Combines Strong Technical Credibility With The Ability To Influence, Challenge And Inspire At The Most Senior Levels. You Will Bring

• Significant senior finance leadership experience within a large, complex organisation, including demonstrable experience partnering with Technology leadership teams.
• A strong track record of working with Executive leaders to shape strategy, drive performance and support major investment and business decisions.
• Experience evaluating complex technology investments, transformation programmes and strategic initiatives, with strong commercial and analytical judgement.
• Demonstrated success leading organisational change, developing high-performing teams and delivering results in complex, matrixed environments.
• Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to translate complex financial and operational information into clear, compelling and actionable insight.
• A professional accounting qualification (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent).
• An understanding of public value, value-for-money principles and the governance, regulatory and commercial considerations that shape decision-making within large and complex organisations.
• Experience supporting Corporate Functions such as HR, Finance, Corporate Affairs and/or Strategy & Transformation would be advantageous, although we recognise that candidates may bring transferable experience from other complex business functions.

Being a leader at the BBC means putting the organisation’s interest, goals and values first, ahead of individual team or function needs. The characteristics of an enterprise leader are: Focuses on outcomes over activity, adapts quickly, and simplifies complexity. They balance short-term actions with long-term impact, take full accountability for actions and decision-making, and prioritise capability development to create teams fit for the future.

If you can bring some of these skills and experience, along with transferable strengths, we’d love to hear from you and encourage you to apply.

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.

Before your start date, you may need to disclose any unspent convictions or police charges, in line with our Recruitment 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.

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.