Finance Manager, Cost and Capital
Your new role
The Manager role within the Cost & Capital finance team is your opportunity to drive insight and support transformative change to help shape the future of Global. This role focuses on workforce economics, cost optimisation and strategic finance partnering across the organisation. As a key driver of value creation, you’ll unlock strategic insights by building comprehensive data sets, analysing financial information, and optimizing costs to support decision-making that will propel Global to new heights over the next few years.
As a Finance Manager at Global, you will:
Key Responsibilities
Strategic Finance Partner to the Executive Board and business, providing financial insight and challenge to support commercial decision-making
Lead financial analysis of workforce economics and productivity, including evaluation of investment decisions, organisational design changes and productivity metrics
Provide financial oversight and challenge of the business cost base to ensure spend aligns with business priorities and delivers strong value for money
Support the budgeting and forecasting process with clear plans and measurable outcomes
Partner with the Finance Director to support enterprise workforce planning and cost management, including headcount governance and workforce productivity analysis
Partner with the business leadership and Procurement to identify and deliver efficiency opportunities and cost optimisation initiatives
Support the Finance Director in the delivery of finance systems and process transformation initiatives, helping to improve the quality, automation and accessibility of financial insight across the organisation
Develop clear financial reporting, dashboards and productivity metrics that provide senior leaders with actionable insight on cost, workforce productivity and investment decisions
Lead or support ad hoc strategic projects and investment cases, providing robust financial analysis, modelling and insight to support executive decision making.
Build strong cross-functional relationships with stakeholders across the business functions to ensure finance is positioned as a trusted partner in driving cost discipline and organisational efficiency
What You’ll Love About This Role
Think Big: Work as strategic partner to the organisation, providing decision making support that shapes how the business grows
Own It: Build robust financial models and insights that influence senior leaders and support critical organisational decisions
Keep it Simple: Translate complex financial and operational data into clear insight and measurable actionable plans that drive better business outcomes
Better Together: Partner with business leaders and cross functional teams, acting as trusted advisor 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 quickly identify the key drivers of the business
Established robust financial datasets and models to provide clear visibility of key performance metrics enabling more informed decision-making
Translated financial performance data into clear actionable insights, helping senior leaders understand key drivers and opportunities to improve operational efficiency
Built trusted relationships with the 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, supporting the design and delivery of programmes aimed at improving organisational efficiency
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: The ability to synthesise complex data into clear recommendations
Commercial acumen and analytical judgement: The ability to understand business drivers, challenge constructively, and see the bigger picture
Ability to build trust and credibility; With senior stakeholders and confidently challenge to improve decision making
Operating with Ambiguity and Uncertainty: Operating and comfortable navigating in these environments, with a focus on key outcomes
Collaborative, outcome-focused mindset: Comfortable working across finance and business teams operating in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment
Problem solving mindset: Applies structured thinking and commercial curiosity to identify opportunities and solve complex business problems
Change and improvement mindset: Leads transformation initiatives and adept at identifying opportunities to optimise costs and improve operational efficiency
Top Skills
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.
