# Content Finance Data Business Analyst

**Company**: BBC Studios
**Location**: London, GBR
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: contract
**Salary**: £60,000 - £67,000
**Category**: Data Science
**Industry**: Media

**Apply**: https://careers.bbc.co.uk/job/London-Content-Finance-Data-Business-Analyst-12-month-FTC-W12-7FA/1375232257/?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply
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## Description

The Content Finance Data Business Analyst is responsible for defining, governing, and improving Content Finance data across BBC Studios business applications.

The role acts as the bridge between Finance, Data, Technology, Global Content, and Transformation teams, ensuring Content Finance data is trusted, understood, and fit for operational, reporting, and strategic decision making.

The role builds on Project Peach and the PWC Conceptual Finance Information Model, tracing data lineage to source systems, identifying root causes of issues, and driving resolution.

The role will lead Finance data requirements for key transformation programmes including the Content Investment Licensing System (CILS) replacement and champion Content Finance requirements within Finance and People Modernisation (FAPM).

**Key Responsibilities:**

- Own and manage the Content Finance data asset catalogue and establish business definitions, ownership, and stewardship of key Finance data elements.

- Develop Finance data models and document end-to-end data lineage and data flows.

- Lead Finance data requirements and modelling for the CILS replacement programme.

- Document end-to-end data lineage across the Content Finance ecosystem.

- Trace reporting and analytical outputs back to source systems, ensuring consistency of Finance data definitions and understanding of end-to-end data flows.

- Identify root causes of reporting, reconciliation, and data quality issues and drive remediation activities.

- Document and maintain understanding of data ownership, stewardship, access controls, and security classifications across the Content Finance data landscape.

- Support the definition and governance of Finance data access models, ensuring appropriate controls, segregation of duties, and compliance requirements are understood and embedded.

- Drive the adoption of a trusted Content Finance data culture through continual improvement of data quality, governance, accountability, and management practices across BBC Studios.

- Promote consistent use of master and reference data across Finance processes, reporting, and transformation initiatives.

- Lead and influence business stakeholders to adopt improved Finance data standards, governance, ownership, and ways of working.

- Champion Content Finance requirements within the FAPM programme.

- Facilitate cross-functional workshops with Finance, Data, and Technology teams.

**Your Skills and Experience:**

- Significant experience as a Business Analyst, Data Analyst, or Data Business Analyst.

- Strong understanding of data modelling, lineage, metadata, and governance concepts.

- Experience gathering and documenting business and data requirements.

- Experience investigating data quality issues and driving remediation.

- Strong leadership, stakeholder management, and facilitation experience working within Finance data environments and Finance systems.

- Demonstrable experience leading data-related change and influencing stakeholders across complex organisations.

**Benefits:**

- A flexible 35-hour working week with 26 days annual leave (plus bank holidays) and the option to buy an extra five days.

- Defined pension (up to 10% employer contributions).

- Caring and parenting support, 24/7 remote GP access, life assurance, and accident benefit.

- BBC Studios is a world leader in operating sustainably both on and off screen.

- Career development in a values-led purpose-driven culture.

## Skills

### Required
- data modelling
- data lineage
- metadata
- governance
- business analysis
- data analysis
- leadership
- stakeholder management
- facilitation

### Nice to have
- experience in media, content, rights, or production environments
- knowledge of SAP and finance transformation programmes
- experience with data cataloguing, governance, or lineage tools
- awareness of modern data platforms including Snowflake and AWS

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