The Finance Manager role within the Cost & Capital finance team is your opportunity to drive insight and support transformative change across Global. This role focuses on workforce economics, cost optimisation and strategic finance partnering. You’ll build robust data sets, analyse financial information and optimise costs to support decision-making that propels Global forward.
As a Finance Manager, Cost and Capital at Global, you will:
Key Responsibilities
Strategic finance partnering (30%): Act as a strategic finance partner to senior leadership, providing insight and constructive challenge to support commercial decision-making.
Workforce economics and productivity (20%): Lead analysis of workforce economics and productivity, including investment decisions, organisational design and productivity metrics.
Cost oversight and optimisation (25%): Provide oversight and challenge of the cost base, ensuring spend aligns with priorities and delivers value for money. Partner with leadership and Procurement to identify and deliver efficiency opportunities.
Planning, reporting and transformation (25%): Support budgeting and forecasting, develop clear reporting and dashboards, and work with the Finance Director on workforce planning, headcount governance and finance systems/process improvements.
What You’ll Love About This Role
Think Big: Act as a strategic partner to the organisation, helping shape how the business grows.
Own It: Build financial models and insight that influence senior leaders and key decisions.
Keep it Simple: Turn complex financial and operational data into clear, actionable insight and plans.
Better Together: Partner with leaders and cross-functional teams as a trusted adviser and constructive challenger.
What Success Looks Like
In your first few months, you’ll have:
Developed a strong understanding of Global’s operating model, cost base and strategic priorities, enabling you to identify key business drivers.
Established robust financial data sets and models to provide clear visibility of key performance metrics.
Translated financial performance data into clear, actionable insights that help senior leaders improve operational efficiency.
Built trusted relationships with business leadership, becoming a go-to finance partner on cost, workforce and investment decisions.
Played a key role in shaping cost optimisation and transformation initiatives.
Strengthened financial governance and insight around workforce and cost management, helping ensure resources are deployed in line with strategic priorities.
What You’ll Need
Financial modelling and analysis skills: Able to synthesise complex data into clear, practical recommendations.
Commercial acumen and analytical judgement: Understands business drivers, challenges constructively and sees the bigger picture.
Stakeholder management: Builds trust and credibility with senior stakeholders and confidently challenges to improve decision-making.
Comfort with ambiguity: Able to operate in fast-paced, changing environments with a focus on key outcomes.
Collaborative, outcome-focused mindset: Works effectively across finance and business teams.
Problem-solving approach: Applies structured thinking and commercial curiosity to identify opportunities and solve complex problems.
Change and improvement mindset: Experienced in supporting or leading transformation initiatives and identifying opportunities to optimise costs and improve efficiency.
Skills Required
- Financial modelling and analysis skills
- Workforce economics and productivity analysis
- Cost oversight and optimisation experience
- Budgeting, forecasting and planning experience
- Experience building reporting, dashboards and financial data sets
- Stakeholder management and strategic finance partnering with senior leaders
- Commercial acumen and strong analytical judgement
- Experience supporting or leading change and transformation initiatives
- Problem-solving with structured thinking and commercial curiosity
- Experience with headcount governance and workforce planning
What We Do
The UK and Europe’s largest Radio & Outdoor company, Global is home to respected, national market-leading media brands broadcasting across the UK on DAB & FM and around the world on Global Player, including Heart, Capital, LBC, Capital XTRA, Capital Dance, Classic FM, Smooth, Radio X and Gold. Global Player allows listeners to enjoy all of Global’s radio brands, award-winning podcasts, and expertly curated playlists, in one place in app, on web and on smart speakers. Global is also one of the leading Outdoor companies in both the UK & Europe, with over 253,000 sites reaching 95% of the UK population. Global’s extensive and diverse outdoor portfolio encompasses Transport for London’s Underground network, almost all major UK airports including Gatwick, the UK’s largest portfolio of roadside posters and premium digital screens in prime locations, as well as the UK’s largest network of buses including all major cities. On-air, on Global Player and with our outdoor platforms combined, Global reaches 51 million individuals across the UK every week, including 26.3 million on the radio alone.
