Business Analyst

Reporting to: Head of Group Management Reporting                  

Location: Stephen Street, London, W1T 1AL                    

Contract: Fixed term contract

Type of work: Hybrid working                     

About Us

Join the place creatives call home!

Fremantle is one of the world’s largest and most successful creators, producers and distributors of Entertainment, Drama & Film and Documentaries.

From critically acclaimed dramas like The Responder, starring Martin Freeman, award winning films including Priscilla and Poor Things, to incredible entertainment and documentaries like Password, Too Hot to Handle, House of Kardashian and the Got Talent and Idols franchises, we make shows with global appeal.

Our Purpose

We aspire to tell stories that connect people around the world. We believe our productions should reflect and celebrate the world we live in and we want to create irresistible entertainment and engage with our audience. To achieve this, we must have people from all backgrounds and cultures working across our teams, and we commit to creating opportunities for talent by being inclusive in all that we do.

The Role:

The role is based in London, within Fremantle Group’s Finance Headquarters with a hybrid working approach.

This role presents a great opportunity to contribute to a major project in Fremantle Finance HQ in London, redesigning and future-proofing the management reporting processes and systems. The role is to support the finance system re-design/changes to drive efficiency, control, and transparency in Fremantle’s consolidated management reporting.

Key Responsibilities:

• Contribute to identifying and defining system improvements and solutions
• Present requirements to key stakeholders and help to drive these forward to meet local and group management requirements
• Develop and maintain system documentation, workflow processes and system initiatives
• Analyse and document consolidation/elimination entries for appropriateness, considering local and group requirements
• Act as a key liaison with the IT departments on systems changes and updates
• Provide insight on consolidation/elimination entries to support local businesses result evaluation
• Prepare and conduct initial testing of system initiatives, with business support as required
• Coordinate user acceptance testing and summarise progress, results and issues as required
• Provide training and manage change as required
• Adhoc activities in relation to consolidated management reporting

Qualifications and Skills

Required

• Accounting qualification
• Experience with financial consolidation (manual or system) and intra-group transactions and consolidation/elimination entries
• Excellent communicator with the ability to bringing people together and consolidate requirements
• Ability and confidence to deal with all levels of finance staff
• Accuracy and attention to detail are key
• Positive, pragmatic and collaborative approach to change management

Preferred

• SAP FC experience
• Understanding of impact of foreign exchange fluctuations

Our benefits include: generous company pension, summer Fridays, audience tickets, hybrid working, employee assistance programme, access to free courses and training, local discounts, cycle to work scheme, season ticket loan, and volunteer days.

Disabled applicants who meet the minimum skills, knowledge and experience criteria for the role will be guaranteed an interview. Please indicate on your application if this applies to you.

If you need any of this information in a different format or would like to suggest a different form of application, please contact careers@fremantle.com

Fremantle is part of RTL Group, a global leader across broadcast, streaming, content and digital, itself a division of the international media, services, and education company Bertelsmann.    

For more information, please visit www.fremantle.com, follow Fremantle on Twitter @FremantleHQ and Instagram @fremantle or visit Fremantle’s LinkedIn page.  

Company: FremantleMedia Group Ltd 

Country: United Kingdom 

State/Region: London 

City: London 

Postal Code: W1T 1AL 

Job ID: 269123