Senior Finance Analyst, FP&A, EMEA

Overview

In this Finance Manager role, you support the EMEA TV Distribution and International Home Entertainment FP&A, delivering planning, budgeting, forecasting and insightful analysis to enable strategic decision-making. You will collaborate with cross-regional commercial and finance teams, ensuring robust controls and IFRS adherence while driving efficiency and new value drivers. The role combines system expertise, financial modelling and stakeholder storytelling to inform leadership in a global media business.

Pay / Benefits

• competitive salary
• private medical insurance
• 25 days annual leave
• learning & development opportunities
• pension plan
• life insurance and income protection

Responsibilities

• Consolidate, review and report budgets, forecasts and MRPs for EMEA TV Distribution and Home Entertainment
• Produce concise management reports showing performance, risk levels and variance analysis
• Serve as expert user of RPM and EPM systems and act as liaison between Home Office and EMEA finance teams
• Provide insightful business analysis to stakeholders and build financial models to support commercial decisions
• Identify and communicate emerging revenue drivers and ensure proper planning and analysis
• Maintain financial controls for forecast, planning and reporting processes and advise on risk management
• Coordinate between FP&A and RTR/PTP/OTC/Tax and Home Office teams regionally and internationally
• Monitor and improve SPE’s working capital position and ensure IFRS compliance
• Drive continuous improvement: standardisation, automation, and adoption of AI tools to increase efficiency

Key requirements

• Typically educated to degree level with 3+ years of Finance and FP&A experience
• Fully qualified or studying towards ACA, CIMA or equivalent
• Proficiency in Essbase and Microsoft Office
• Advanced Excel skills (pivot tables, lookups, data analysis)
• Strong PowerPoint skills and ability to present to finance and non-finance stakeholders
• Strong financial modelling and analytical skills with the ability to translate data into insights
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management across regional and global teams
• Attention to detail, financial controls, accuracy and data integrity
• Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced international environment
• Proactive in process improvement and automation, comfortable adopting AI tools
• Experience across multiple territories or international organisations is advantageous
• Experience in media, entertainment, TV distribution or Home Entertainment is beneficial

• communication
• stakeholder management
• analytical mindset
• Essbase
• RPM
• EPM

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