Finance Analyst

Finance Analyst, Cost and Capital

At Global, we think big, work hard, and never stand still. We’re the proud home of the best media and entertainment, driven by our talented and passionate people. Our mission? To make everyone’s day brighter— our Globallers, our audiences, our partners, and our communities. Whether we’re in the studio, building world-class technology, or securing record Outdoor advertising partnerships, we make sure we’re doing it as a team.

Your new role

The Analyst role within the Cost & Capital Commercial Finance team is your opportunity to deliver insight and support transformative change to help shape the future of Global. This role focuses on driving cost and capital performance by building robust analysis, improving reporting, and supporting planning, investment and efficiency initiatives. Working closely with stakeholders across Finance and the wider business, you’ll play an important role in helping Global allocate resources effectively, add value and deliver against its strategic priorities.

As a Finance Analyst at Global, you will:

Key Responsibilities

• Strategic Finance Partnering (25%): Act as a trusted finance partner to the business, providing financial insight, analysis and constructive challenge to support commercial decision-making. Support ad hoc projects, business cases and investment decisions through financial modelling and analysis.
• Cost and capital analysis & optimisation (30%): Produce cost (staff and non-staff) and capital analysis, including investment appraisal, productivity metrics and ROI analysis. Provide financial oversight and challenge, partnering with business teams and Procurement to identify cost optimisation opportunities and track delivery of savings.
• Planning, reporting and performance insight (25%): Support budgeting & forecasting for cost and capital, providing clear analysis, performance tracking and financial reporting. Develop dashboards and metrics that give leaders actionable insight on performance, investment, risks, cash flow and returns.
• Capital governance, systems and process improvement (20%): Support capital reporting and governance, including spend tracking and risk management across major capital programmes. Contribute to finance systems, data and process improvements to enhance the quality, automation and accessibility of financial insight.

What You’ll Love About This Role

• Think Big: Support decisions that shape business performance and future growth
• Own It: Build robust financial models and insights that influence senior leaders and support critical business decisions
• Keep it Simple: Translate complex financial and operational data into clear, actionable insight that drives better business outcomes
• Better Together: Strategically 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, capital base and strategic priorities, enabling you to identify key business drivers quickly
• Built robust financial datasets and models that improve visibility of performance and support better decision-making
• Turned data into clear, actionable insights to help leaders understand financial performance key drivers and efficiency opportunities
• Built trusted relationships across the business, becoming a valued finance partner on cost, capital and investment decisions
• Supported cost optimisation and transformation initiatives as part of the wider team, helping improve efficiency
• Strengthened financial governance and insight across cost and capital management to support effective resource allocation

What You’ll Need

• Analytical skills: Strong financial analysis, modelling and Excel skills with the ability to work with complex data and extract insights
• Attention to Detail: Highly organised and accurate when working across multiple tasks and deadlines
• Proactive approach: Asks the right questions, challenges assumptions constructively, and identifies opportunities to improve processes and efficiency
• Strong Communicator: Builds effective relationships across finance and non-finance stakeholders and presents financial insights clearly and simply
• Commercial awareness: Understands what drives business performance and sees the bigger picture beyond the numbers
• Career Focused: Recently qualified, or equivalent experience, ideally from industry or professional services, with a strong desire to grow in Commercial Finance

Creating a place we all belong at Global 

We are dedicated to creating a place where different voices are represented, amplified and celebrated. We know that we can’t serve our diverse audiences without first celebrating it in our people, which is why we’re passionate about creating an inclusive culture where every Globaller can belong. So, no matter who you are or where you are from, you can find your place at Global.  As a business, we believe in the importance of a healthy work-life balance and the value of a flexible and agile workforce. Therefore, we operate a Smart Working approach. If you need us to make any reasonable adjustments during your recruitment process, drop us an email at [email protected], we’ll be happy to help.