BBC to cut finance department by two-thirds
The BBC to slash in-house finance department to a third of its current size.
The BBC to slash in-house finance department to a third of its current size.
The BBC is to slash its in-house finance department to about a third of its current size, as part of the corporation’s drive to find £355m of savings.
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In an interview with Accountancy Age this week, the BBC’s new group finance director Zarin Patel said that one of her first tasks would be to trim the corporation’s finance department through a combination of downsizing and outsourcing.
‘We have about 850 staff in finance,’ she says. ‘We will lessen that by a third through outsourcing, a third of the posts will be reduced, meaning a third will be left.’
Patel’s department forms a large part of the BBC’s professional services division, which itself faces 1,730 job reductions and a £139m hit to its budget. The cuts amount to an 46% of the overall division.
‘Quite a large part of the £355m is coming from the professional services area and from buying better,’ said Patel. ‘We’ve made huge strides.’
And she added: ‘It’s a hell of a lot of money – but it is doable’. Patel said that she hoped to achieve the cuts in finance by natural attrition.
‘In finance, because there is a high level of churn, and it’s a buoyant market at the moment, I think that most will be voluntary.’
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