Head of Finance - News Broadcasting

News UK; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading media company in the UK is seeking a Head of Finance for Broadcasting. This critical leadership role involves driving financial oversight and revenue growth across broadcasting operations, ensuring accurate revenue recognition, and leading budgeting processes. The ideal candidate will be a qualified accountant with strong experience in finance, excellent communication skills, and the ability to drive strategic financial initiatives. This role also involves working closely with senior management to present financial analyses and reports.

Benefits

Private medical insurance

Generous pension scheme

Training and development opportunities

Access to wellbeing benefits

Discounted gym memberships

Flexible working policy

Qualifications

• Significant post-qualified experience in finance.
• Ability to challenge and influence management.
• Experience in budgeting and forecasting.

Responsibilities

• Provide financial support across broadcasting management.
• Review business cases for new investments.
• Lead the annual budgeting process.

Skills

Qualified accountant with significant post‑qualified experience

Commercially aware with strong accounting skills

Experience in leading a team and driving change

Clear communication style with finance and non‑finance stakeholders

Organised with strong time management

Confident and calm under pressure

Effective problem-solving

Education

Qualifications in accounting

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Job Description

Your team: Our Finance team has a large part to play in the success of our business. We are based across a few locations, but operate as one team, and work together to create a positive, productive and highly efficient finance department within News UK.

Your role:

The Head of Finance - Broadcasting (Revenue & Margin) is a critical leadership role within the Finance team, responsible for driving financial oversight and revenue growth across broadcasting operations. This role is focused on delivering top line growth, maximising current revenue streams, whilst identifying and delivering new revenue initiatives, ensuring accurate revenue recognition and reporting. Additionally, the role will assist with ad hoc projects and initiatives, such as the financial evaluation of new programming or operational strategies i.e. CTV, to support the overall growth and efficiency of the broadcasting division.

Day to day you will:

• Provide broadcasting management performance (across Commercial, Programming, Marketing, Tech) and the execs with financial and commercial support to continuously improve investment decision making.
• Challenge and influence management to ensure optimised return on investment.
• Review of business cases for new investments, including ensuring all project deliveries remain within budget and on schedule, with appropriate escalation of business risks.
• Financial appraisal of strategic investment proposals.
• Weekly/Monthly/Quarterly reporting.
• Review and present weekly broadcasting results (with deep understanding of key revenue drivers and growth initiatives).
• Prepare and review quarterly conference call deck and board presentations.
• Oversight of the preparation of financial reports, including income statements, balance sheets, and cash flow statements, ensuring true and fair representation of business performance.
• Present financial analyses and reports to senior management and stakeholders, highlighting trends, risks and opportunities.
• Budgeting and quarterly forecasting.
• Lead the annual budgeting process, ensuring accuracy, timeliness, and alignment with organisational goals.
• Develop and maintain financial forecasts, incorporating scenario analyses to inform strategic decision‑making and resource allocation.
• Monitor financial performance against budgets and forecasts, identifying variances and recommending corrective measures.
• Performance reporting and measurement.
• Implement and optimise reporting tools and dashboards to provide real‑time insights into financial performance and key metrics for revenue growth.

What we’re looking for from you:

• Qualified accountant with significant post‑qualified experience.
• Commercially aware with strong accounting skills.
• Experience in leading a team and driving change.
• Confident and calm under pressure, organised with strong time management.
• Clear communication style with both finance and non‑finance stakeholders.
• Able to work as part of a team and able to use your own initiative to solve problems.
• An effective challenger, always looking for better ways of doing things.

News UK is one of the leading media businesses in the UK and Ireland. Our news brands include The Times, The Sunday Times, The Sun, The Sun on Sunday and the TLS. Our national broadcast brands include talkSPORT, Times Radio and Virgin Radio UK, and we have market‑leading local stations across Ireland. Our world‑famous brands provide news, analysis, opinion and entertainment to almost 40 million people each month. Spanning print and pixel, audio and video, events and experiences, our multi‑format brands are home to a plurality of opinion, representing the diverse communities we serve. Driven by passion, guided by principles and acting with purpose, we exist to promote a fair society, freedom of speech and a little bit of fun. Rethinking continually the business of storytelling, we represent, reflect and reach the nation, telling the stories that matter.

At News UK, we know the value of working together, which is why we operate a hybrid working policy with a minimum of three days a week in the office. Being in the office allows us to collaborate, innovate, and thrive as a team in our vibrant and dynamic workspace. Some roles may require more office‑based days depending on the nature of the position, so we encourage you to speak with your recruiter to learn more about what’s required for your role.

Life at News

Driven by passion, guided by principles and acting with purpose. We represent, reflect and reach the nation, telling the stories that matter. We inform our audiences so that they can make decisions based on trusted information.

We represent, reflect and reach the nation, telling the stories that matter most. To ensure these stories resonate with as broad an audience as possible, it is essential that our organisation reflects the diversity of the people we reach. Whether through age, gender, ethnicity, disability, social class or sexuality, we are committed to representing the rich variety of voices that make up our society. And we champion a culture where everyone has the opportunity to contribute and thrive as we continue to innovate and drive long‑term sustainable growth. This is done through our Diversity Strategy.

At News UK, we take pride in our exceptional employee‑led networks that bring together individuals with shared interests and create a vibrant sense of community. We believe our networks play a vital role in fostering a collaborative and supportive work culture at News UK. Groups that we support include the African & Caribbean Network, Parents and Carers, and LGBTQ+ group News Is Out, and the Apprentice Society.

Benefits

Some of our benefits include:

• Maternity leave up to 18 weeks full basic salary & paternity leave up to 2 weeks
• Wide range of training available, plus full LinkedIn Learning access
• Private medical insurance including coverage for pre‑existing conditions
• Discounted gym memberships, free ClassPass at Home, weekly virtual yoga classes
• 'Bikes for Work' and 'Electric Car' scheme
• Up to 60% discount on Harper Collins books
• Access to exclusive events and competitions with exciting brands such as talkSPORT, Virgin Radio UK & The Times. Weekly virtual panel chats with top journalists and celebrities
• Access to wellbeing benefits such as EAP, physio/massage and counselling
• A generous pension scheme with employer contributions of up to 5%
• 25 days holiday, plus bank holidays and up to 4 volunteering days per year

We want to ensure that everyone has the opportunity to perform to their best when applying for a role. If you would like to receive any information in a different way or for us to do anything differently to support you apply for any of our roles please contact us on [e-mail].