Finance Manager

Why join

We are ITV Studios Global Partnerships. As part of ITV Studios we lead on sales and exploitation of TV formats around the globe.

ITV Studios Global Partnerships is known for its expertise in distributing shows which attract large global audiences with significant commercial potential. It is the home of licensing for some of the most powerful TV formats in the world such as Hell’s Kitchen, Come Dine With Me, The Four, I’m A Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here, Four Weddings, I Love My Country, The Chase and Love Island;

We partner with our clients to monetize content through a number of different ways, including brand licensing, merchandising, commercial integration and digital and social activity.

For our Finance team we are looking for a Finance Manager.

The purpose of this role is to deliver financial management, review and guidance across ITV Studios Global Partnerships, including month end support, advice and reconciliations. This includes supporting the preparation of the monthly accounts, financial transactions and audit processes with the support of the Global Partnerships Financial Analysts. Reviewing processes for improvement and alignment with the overall Global Partnerships finance processes, systems and set up.

What you do

• Review and management of monthly processes and reporting for Global Partnerships, including AP, AR and month end reconciliations
• Review processes and improve/align with other processes across Global Partnerships
• Transition the accounting processes from the Netherlands systems onto the UK system and establish processes/ways of working to manage these from Hilversum
• Consolidation of the monthly accounts
• Management of the Global Partnerships Financial Analysts
• Supporting the Financial Controller with the review and sign off of the monthly accounts and reporting
• Management of ad hoc reporting and information requests across the team
• Supporting with and management of any audit queries, requests and processes
• Reviewing, making recommendations and supporting the implementation of financial controls where appropriate
• Driving standardisation and efficiencies across the monthly and transactional processes and reporting
• Supporting the Finance Business Partners with the monthly accounts and information for their areas
• Working alongside the FP&A team to ensure accurate end to end reporting and forecasting for Global Partnerships, providing support to the UK FP&A team on financial transactions in the Netherlands systems, including month end and forecast uploads where necessary
• Modelling best practice collaboration and continuous improvement behaviours across Global Partnerships Finance