Financial Controller - RTÉ Commercial Division
RTÉ is Ireland's national public-service media organisation. A leader in Irish media, RTÉ provides comprehensive, cost-effective, free-to-air multi-media services to the public in Ireland and audiences internationally.
RTÉ is looking for a Financial Controller to join our Finance team with responsibility for RTÉ Commercial Division.
Reporting to the Chief Financial Officer (dotted line to the Commercial Director), the person will be a key member of the Finance leadership team and will lead out and support other key strategic and governance projects.
RTÉ Commercial has an annual turnover of circa. €135m and a team of circa 85 people. RTÉ Commercial maintains close operational relationships with advertising agencies through which it brokers its trading revenues on a standard commission basis.
The Financial Controller is responsible for building and maintaining strong relationships with a wide range of stakeholders, particularly in the Commercial team. They are also responsible for understanding, managing and communicating ongoing performance of the business and providing financial, analytical and strategic support to the Commercial team and the RTÉ senior leadership team along with weekly and monthly financial reviews.
The person will also ensure financial accuracy and data-based decision making is at the core of all decision making.
Specific responsibilities of the post will include:
1. Provide financial, analytical and strategic support to the Commercial team. Ongoing performance management - revenue, pricing, costs, margin and cashflow. Review underlying trends, assisting with target setting, advising on the right pricing strategy and communicating current/future trading position to senior leadership and management team.
2. Work closely with the central finance team particularly on the month end, year end and board and external reporting (including Regulatory reporting).
3. Manage the financial aspects of contractual negotiation.
4. Support the governance process via working with the business team to deliver strong business cases
5. Undertake detailed commercial analysis to understand business performance and prepare commercial commentary for weekly and monthly trading meetings.
6. Leading and coordinating the annual and quarterly budgeting and forecasting cycle working closely with the CFO and Group Financial Controller. Preparation of budget and forecast presentations for the Senior Leadership Team.
7. Develop the reporting and analytics framework to support high level business understanding and strategic thinking in collaboration with the Analytics team.
8. Provide detailed variance analysis between the budget /forecast and actuals to understand and report on variances and communicate the impact on future trends.
9. Review month end with CFO and Group Financial Controller.
10. Initiate and co-ordinate deep dive investigations process where necessary.
11. Represent the Finance function’s voice clearly and pro-actively in multiple areas.
12. Challenge performance and be a driver for positive change via accurate and timely insight into trends and performance.
13. Assist in changing ways of working to ensure simplification and efficiencies.
14. Perform medium to complex analysis and modelling.
15. Provision of insightful analysis to support strategic decision making.
16. Periodic reporting to the Board and external stakeholders on financial performance.
17. Support important Strategic and Governance projects e.g., property investment, transition to C&AG audit, liaison with New Era and government departments
18. Actively participate in other ad hoc projects as they arise - by taking full ownership and running with such projects.
The ideal candidate will possess the following:
19. Qualified CIMA/ACA/ACCA with a minimum of 10 years post qualified experience
20. First rate analytical skills with a sound understanding of the commercial impact of the reported figures
21. Highly articulate, influential with exceptional presentation and communication skills
22. Excellent numerical ability, attention to detail, problem solving and negotiation skills
23. Highly motivated and deadline driven
24. Strong Excel and PowerPoint skills, PowerBI
25. Ability to work with complex data sets
26. Ability to project and process manage
27. Prior experience of any of media, property transactions, C&AG and other public sector relationships desirable but not essential
28. Organisation skills – an ability to implement structured systems and processes while allowing for innovation
The selected candidate will also have the following personal qualities:
29. Ownership & Leadership : You take pride in what you do and ownership for finding solutions to business challenges.
30. Great collaboration : You work in support of the team agenda, collaborating effectively and with respect at all levels of our organisation.
31. Gaining Commitment : You energise and influence others to get the job done and have strong relationships to enable delivery of great results.
32. Results driven : You relentlessly focus on the key inputs to deliver the desired results.
33. Pace : You are able to deliver to tight deadlines.
34. Metrics Driven : You will be data driven in assessing performance.
35. Managing Change : Champions, supports and delivers change to improve things. Helps others by overcoming barriers.
36. Culture fit : You are results-focused, pragmatic, diplomatic, collaborative, transparent, motivated, high integrity, commercial and flexible.
This appointment will be offered on an ongoing full-time basis with a personal contract (salary up to €120,000) dependent on experience.