Finance Manager - Revenue & Partnerships; FTC

Finance Manager – Revenue & Partnerships (9 month FTC)

Reports to: Senior Finance Manager – Revenue & Partnerships

Department: Finance

Location: London, United Kingdom

Job Grade: M

Key role within the Commercial Finance (CF)/Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) team of Channel 4. The Finance Manager will lead and implement transformative projects that diversify revenue opportunities and optimise reporting and budgeting processes to enhance business performance. Responsibilities include spearheading ad‑hoc projects, driving process improvement initiatives, and partnering with senior finance leaders to support commercial objectives.

• Work directly with the Senior Finance Manager on existing and new partnership opportunities within the commercial pillar.
• Build robust financial analysis and valuation for new and existing partnership opportunities, including scenario analysis, sensitivities and return assessments across P&L, cash and KPI outcomes.
• Translate commercial assumptions into decision‑ready analysis for executive stakeholders, providing clear recommendations, risk/opportunity insight and financial challenge to support negotiations, approvals and strategic decision‑making.
• Actively challenge and influence stakeholders to ensure alignment with financial objectives and drive the best outcomes for the business.
• Own communication between the business pillar and the central FP&A function on project plans, ensuring alignment on consolidated revenue and opportunity position and multi‑year P&L and cash outlook.
• Lead the headcount management process, maintain accurate reconciliations, track movements against plan and partner with budget holders to ensure resource assumptions are reflected in forecasts.
• Model headcount related projects and financial implications of changes to headcount structure, reward strategy and other relevant changes.
• Drive process improvement across cost reporting and planning cycles, identifying opportunities to simplify, automate and strengthen controls.
• Prepare and review regular cost forecasts, analyse variances to plan and provide insight on risks and opportunities.
• Support the annual budget and longer‑term planning process for operating costs in the business pillar.
• Design and maintain reporting dashboards to improve visibility of performance and streamline insight generation.
• Enhance forecasting models by refining data inputs, assumptions and methodologies.
• Identify opportunities to automate recurring reporting and analysis tasks.
• Support the pillar Finance Business Partner, the Group FP&A team, and the Director of Commercial Finance as required.
• Complete other responsibilities as required by the Senior Finance Manager – Revenue & Partnerships or the Group FP&A team.

• Qualified accountant (CIMA, ACA, ACCA preferred) with demonstrable 3+ years FP&A related experience.
• Experience of working directly with operational business executives and budget holders to construct strategic plans from scratch.
• Excellent attention to detail and comfort with complex, detailed Excel models.
• Strong self‑starter, comfortable with the ambiguous nature of project work.
• Demonstrable experience working on complex projects, including governance.
• Enthusiastic, diligent and self‑motivated.
• Experience of challenging and influencing business stakeholders.
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written.
• Flexible and able to work to tight deadlines.

• Private medical insurance.
• Free virtual GP access for employees.
• Free female health hormone test each year.
• Free Tastecard membership.
• Access to financial wellbeing resources.
• Discounted gym memberships.
• Pension plan.
• Life assurance.
• Income protection.
• Holiday purchase option.

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We encourage applications from candidates from all backgrounds and do not discriminate based on disability, age, gender reassignment, gender expression, criminal history, length of time spent unemployed, marriage or civil…