Head of Finance, Brands & Licensing – Consumer Products & Licensing FTC

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Head of Finance, Brands & Licensing – Consumer Products & Licensing FTC View more categories View less categories Sector Finance and Accounts Role Senior Manager Contract Type Permanent Hours Full Time

ABOUT BBC STUDIOS

BBC Studios is a world-renowned content studio and channels & streaming business, powered by British creativity, with a reach that touches audiences in every corner of the globe.

We work with outstanding creative talent who are responsible for platform-defining shows from Strictly Come Dancing to Bluey, Eastenders, Prehistoric Planet and Planet Earth III.

The range and quality of our content is unsurpassed, creating critical and commercial successes and global phenomena.

From BAFTAs to RTS Awards, BBC Studios is Britain’s most awarded production company and the only producer with three of the top ten shows on IMDB; we are the home of the widest-read English language news website in the world; and the UK’s largest distributor of British content.

ABOUT THE CONSUMER PRODUCTS & LICENSING PORTFOLIO

The global Consumer Products and Licensing (CP&L) portfolio within BBC Studios covers eleven different businesses. This includes merchandising, home entertainment, gaming, publishing, books, live events, radio and music, Demon Music Group, learning, archive commercialisation and Motion Gallery. The merchandising business is led by the Senior Vice President of Global Consumer Products based in New York, while the remaining licensing businesses are led by the Senior Vice President of Global Licensing based in London. Both SVP roles report into the CEO of Brands and Licensing.

The directors of this broad set of businesses work to establish strong partnerships and commercialise all ancillary rights related to content produced by BBC Studios, as well to explore new business opportunities to achieve long range plan growth targets.

This portfolio of businesses has in the last few years seen incredible growth due to the success of a Kids & Family brand named Bluey.

ABOUT THE BLUEY BRAND

Since its initial premier in Australia during 2018, Bluey has gone on to become a dominant global entertainment franchise generating an estimated $2billion in retail value and was the number one most watched show (of all shows) in America during 2024. Bluey is produced by Ludo Studio Productions in Australia, and with the distribution rights to commercialise the brand globally BBC Studios has played a pivotal role in successfully developing partnerships and growing audiences around the world. Bluey reaches audiences through broadcast partnerships, consumer products, home entertainment, live events, gaming, books, magazines, music and digital platforms.

BBC Studios and The Walt Disney Company recently announced the first-ever animated feature film for Bluey. The new deal sees Disney acquiring the global theatrical rights for the film, which will land in cinemas in 2027.

As a result of the incumbent Head of Commercial Finance for CP&L stepping up into a 12-month maternity cover for the Finance Director, BBC Studios is recruiting a Head of Commercial Finance on a 12-month fixed term contract. This role will be pivotal in providing critical business partnering support to both the SVP of Global Consumer Products and the SVP of Global Licensing. This role will manage a team of 5, including a newly-established Finance Business Analyst role that will be dedicated to the Bluey brand specifically.

THE ROLE

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Business Partnering

• Develop strong collaborative relationships with the SVPs and their direct reports and provide informed forward-looking financial plans and insights, and support strategic decision making.
• Translate financial data into actionable business strategies, improving financial performance and ensuring alignment with overall business goals.
• Demonstrate a thorough understanding of commercial business models and key partnership contracts to support the leadership team’s decision making.
• Provide recommendations in a timely manner to both finance and business teams across BBC Studios on how to resolve key financial and business issues related to the portfolio.

Financial Management

• Oversee and project manage all aspects of financial planning, analysis and quarterly forecasting/budgeting across the portfolio.
• Prepare rolling profit/loss and cash flow forecasts.
• Contribute insightful written commentary into monthly commercial priority packs, as well as into quarterly forecasting / budgeting presentations that are submitted to the Studios Executive Committee.
• Lead on the preparation and consolidation of the annual long range plan process for all businesses in the portfolio and provide financial analysis to support long term decision-making across the organization.
• With the support of the newly established Finance Business Analyst – Bluey role, take ownership of delivering key reporting, insights and contributions to Bluey Steering Committee packs specifically related to the Bluey brand, which is the main revenue driver of the CP&L portfolio.

Analysis & Insight

• Deliver high quality financial and business analysis related to the portfolio with recommendations for solving business problems and to influence and challenge business decisions.
• Deliver forward looking global scenario planning to proactively inform commercial and operational decision making that will ensure BBCS is investing the right level of overheads to support the portfolio while maintaining margin targets.
• Deliver effective financial and business analytical support for divisional projects/business initiatives – helping to improve business decisions and divisional performance.
• Promote and deliver improvements through identifying and recommending opportunities for efficiencies and value generation.

Business Case Development

• Collaborate with the SVPs and their direct reports in the preparation and submission of deal approval papers that need to go to the Brands and Licensing Approval Committee.
• Using a strong background in financial modelling and business case development, work with the Finance Business Analysts to prepare and contribute financial modelling and insights into the submission papers.

Support with risk management

• Recommend and implement process improvement to continually improve the control environment of the portfolio’s financial reporting, processes and practices that will give the business confidence in the value generated by the business.

Team leadership and collaboration

• Lead and mentor the team of finance business analysts, promoting a culture of transparency, integrity, and excellence.
• Ensure Finance Business Analysts and the relevant Finance teams are informed of issues, analysis and decisions that impact them or require their support/views.
• Collaborate with commercial, finance, legal, group, corporate and strategy teams both centrally and regionally across all divisions of BBC Studios.

WHAT DOES IT TAKE?

ESSENTIAL CRITERIA:

• A professional accounting qualification. e.g. CIMA, ACA, ACCA, or equivalent
• Significant experience in a Head of Commercial Finance role with demonstrable team management experience
• Excellent interpersonal, analytical and communication skills; capable of collaborating with and influencing stakeholders at all levels across the business.
• Experience delivering high-quality management information reporting and analytics.
• Excellent financial modelling and business case development experience.
• Proven ability to identifying opportunities for revenue generation, cost management and value generation.
• Ability to interpret contracts and apply these to financial business case and forecasting models.
• Ability to take complex data/principles and to communicate these in an understandable way.
• Highly developed written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience in a large global matrix organisational environment.

DESIRABLE CRITERIA:

• Experience in the media and entertainment industry.
• Familiarity with licensing business models.

LIFE AT BBC STUDIOS

We do not focus simply on what we do – we also care how we do it. Our values and the way we behave are important to us. Please make sure you’ve read about our values and behaviours here.

The BBC is committed to building a culturally diverse workforce, which represents the audiences we serve, and encourages applications from candidates from any background, especially people from diverse communities. Equity of opportunity is important to us, and we endeavour to make our processes equal, fair and meritocratic for everybody. More information on our D&I plan can be found here.

BBC Studios puts sustainability at the heart of everything we do both onscreen and offscreen, including delivering against the BBC Group’s science-based Net Zero targets. More information on sustainability at BBC Studios can be found here.

As a Level 2 Disability Confident employer, we will ensure that a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants that meet the minimum criteria for this position will be offered an interview. If you require any reasonable adjustments to apply, please contact us on

PACKAGE DESCRIPTION

Job Reference: 21358
Band: F
Contract type: FTC
Salary: £80,000- £95,000, depending on relevant skills . click apply for full job details