Finance Business Partner (Content & Platform), 12-month FTC

Finance Business Partner (Content & Platform), 12-month FTC

Department: Finance

Employment Type: Fixed Term - Full Time

Location: London

Description

As a Finance Business Partner within our Content & Platform Finance team, you will partner closely with the Content and Platform business teams providing insight and analysis to optimise SkyShowtime's investment in Shareholder Content and Platform Cost. The Content team you would business partner manage 90% of our investment into content that drives our service. The Platform team manage not only our underlying service but also drive improvements to our Platform covering customer offerings and experience.

Your strong commercial and analytical mindset will be required to aid shorter term commercial and longer-term strategic decision making. You will have oversight over the budgets of the respective areas, managing financial performance, planning and reporting, working closely with senior finance and senior business stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities

Knowledge expert for content output deals and platform costs for SkyShowtime, providing high-level insight and analysis to the CFO, Commercial Director of Programming and CPO:

1. Clear, accurate and concise financial reporting and analysis of the cost of content to inform decision-making at the highest level in the business, including the CFO, CCO and CPO.
2. Evaluating content output and deal structures.
3. Examining content performance and engagement and the link to subscriber and prospect behaviour.
4. Clear understanding on content framework agreements and spend commitments, with an ability to advise C-Suite on future cash implications for SkyShowtime.
5. Clear understanding of the Platform framework agreements and how this commitment impacts on P&L and Cash while ensuring the Platform roadmap aligns with strategic business goals.

Accountability for accurate forecasting and financial planning of all content and platform related expenditure:

1. Work closely with the Commercial Director of Content Programming to set and manage budgets and forecasts for content acquisition across all territories of SkyShowtime.
2. Working closely with Directors within platform and platform provider to understand and record related expenditure and understanding monthly trends and variances to expectations.
3. Ensuring the strategic aims and growth plans for the entire business are balanced with the financial implications of content title selection.
4. Developing robust financial reporting for content spend and oversee accounting treatment for content and content-related contracts.
5. Leading on content ingest costs, partnering with Platform Provider to pace costs and budgets accordingly.

Build close working relationships with FP&A and Finance Operations to ensure key stakeholders have an accurate view of cash commitments on content and platform at any point.

Identify opportunities to improve processes. Prioritise work effectively. Enable the delivery of high-quality work at pace.

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

1. You will be a qualified finance professional with ideally 2+ years experience of working in a high performing commercial finance team. Experience working within a Content or Streaming business useful but not mandatory.
2. Insightful financial analysis which creates value, demonstrates good judgement, presentational and influencing skills.
3. Clear communication skills, both verbal and written. A great communicator who can cultivate strong cross-functional relationships and communicate effectively with internal teams.
4. A proactive approach, looking to challenge the status quo and look for improvements.
5. A curiosity to learn.
6. Ability to work at pace.
7. A strong eye for detail and knowing your numbers.
8. An ability to work independently within a controlled and process-driven environment.