Finance Analyst

Our client is a creative, commercially driven business delivering live experiences, content, and partnership-led projects for a wide-ranging audience. With a growing pipeline of activity and an operating model built around fast turnaround, multiple stakeholders, and overlapping project timelines, the company continues to invest in new opportunities and strengthen its commercial insight. As part of this growth, they are looking to appoint a Finance Analyst to support performance reporting, profitability analysis, and smarter decision-making across the portfolio.

The Role
Reporting into senior finance leadership, the Finance Analyst will play a key role in providing financial insight to support creative, operational, and commercial teams. The role offers exposure across productions, projects, and revenue channels within a deadline-driven environment, requiring someone who can work confidently with data, bring clarity to performance, and communicate findings clearly to non-finance stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities

• Support budgeting, forecasting, and cash flow planning across projects and business lines

• Produce performance reporting with clear variance analysis and commercial commentary

• Analyse project costs, margins, and profitability across live and digital content

• Partner with operational and creative teams to improve cost control and decision-making

• Assist with financial modelling and scenario analysis for new projects and investments

• Support month-end processes, management reporting, and balance sheet analysis

• Maintain and improve financial models, dashboards, and reporting tools

Candidate Profile

• ACA, ACCA, or CIMA qualified or part-qualified, or equivalent analytical experience

• Previous experience in entertainment, media, or project-based environments

• Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret data and present clear insights

• Confident communicator able to work with non-finance stakeholders

• Advanced Excel and financial modelling capability

• Detail-oriented, commercially minded, and comfortable in a fast-paced environment