Senior Commercial Finance Analyst

This role sits within the FP&A and Commercial Finance team. The role will support greenlighting decisions and maintain ultimates across both Scripted and non-Scripted. The role will provide business partnering support to our commercial and BALA stakeholders on key decisions covering talent investment and corporate business development activity, and be proactive in providing analysis to support strategic decisions. RESPONSIBILITIES •Investment analysis in TV shows, including providing recommendations, identifying the key drivers of the investment model and proactively work with stakeholders to drive decision making ahead of Greenlighting a new TV show. •Title management. Liaise with teams across UIS (BALA, Production, Prod Finance, Controllership) to manage titles throughout their life-cycle, from GL prep through to close-down and moving to library. •Work closely with the Controllership team in support of the quarterly close process in relation to title bookings. •Investment in new talent deals: provide analysis on proposed new talent deals. Complex analysis must be distilled and presented succinctly highlighting the key issues, sensitivities, and recommendations to enable the business to make effective decisions. Continued appraisal of current talent investments with a proactive culture of feedback and learning to improve future decision making. •Support on strategic reviews of operating assets (e.g. production companies) •Support key strategic projects such as Op Reviews, M&A, platform analysis and deal structures (e.g. our relationships with third party producers) •External market analysis: provide analysis on key TV markets, including communicating key market dynamics, competitor analysis and identifying opportunities for exploitation. •Evaluate actual performance and provide insightful support to business and commercial teams acting as a key finance business partner •Ad-hoc projects and tasks as required.