As a Health and Safety Business Partner, you will be part of a supportive and skilled team, providing specialist health, safety and wellbeing advice and playing a pivotal role in promoting a safe, healthy, and thriving workplace! 

Each day will be different as you work with leaders and staff across NSW and QLD to manage various safety challenges—whether it’s supporting journalists in their day-to-day news reporting or dealing with coverage of emergencies such as floods and bushfires.

Day to day, you will:

• Help deliver on the Health, Safety, and Wellbeing (HSW) strategy, including driving and contributing to project/ initiative work
• Partner with leaders to integrate health and safety into daily operations
• Partner with and guide managers and employees through end-to-end health and safety management of their site and business unit/s.
• Design and implement fit for purpose controls for unique safety challenges
• Provide advice and support to leaders on HSW matters.
• Enable teams to manage risks and prioritise wellbeing proactively.
• Contribute to the ongoing development and improvement of the safety management system.
• Identify, assess and respond to health and safety risks in the workplace.
• Drive best practices to maintain a safe workplace in line with Nine's objectives.

We are looking for a motivated and dynamic Assistant Finance Business Partner to join our Business Unit Finance team, supporting our Product teams!

What is this role about?

The role supports the Finance Business Partner in the delivery of quality advice and information to support their allocated Product Domain business unit to meet and exceed their financial targets in the short, medium, and long term. This role covers the full P&L, with a 90% weighting on Revenue Management.

The responsibilities in this role include but are not limited to the following:

Reporting:

• Performance Monitoring: Assist the Finance Business Partner with the monthly financial activities end to end for your Domain, covering month, YTD and performance reporting including driver-based variance analysis and commentary on Product Revenue, Operating costs and Investment activities.
• Performance Reporting: Support the preparation of the monthly performance dashboards, highlighting key metrics, trends, and variances. Ensure reports are clear, accurate, and provide actionable insights.
• Accruals & adjustments: Prepare and process accruals or adjustments to ensure that financial statements reflect the true economic condition of the BU.
• Bi-annual Reporting: Support delivery of half year and year end commentary to the financial statements for the Domain’s Product drivers.

Decision Support:

• Support the Finance Business Partner with the provision of high-quality driver-based commentary and insights to support key stakeholder decision making
• Business partnering with key stakeholders in the Domains and across Channels and Finance teams.
• Support both the Business Unit Finance Team and Domains with continuous improvement initiatives. Focused on enhancing productivity, efficiency, and the overall effectiveness of financial processes, and to drive insightful reporting developments.

Forecasting & Budgeting:

• Assist with the delivery of financial plans and forecast – construct and maintain a driver based 3-year strategic plan and rolling monthly forecast in accordance with timetable.
• Analysis of inputs, particularly transaction drivers (or similar) working with the business to gain driver-based inputs and insights.
• Support the preparation of qualitative insightful reporting on budget/forecast submissions, including potential opportunity and risks

The UP&E Business & Legal Affairs team is seeking an experienced, motivated, and collaborative in-house lawyer to support the Consumer Products business across the Asia Pacific region (APAC).  The role will look after contract needs related to IP consumer product and publishing licensing agreements, retail/marketing campaigns, design asset creation and other services arrangements and provide business & legal affairs support to commercial/category and creative teams across UP&E APAC offices in Sydney, Tokyo & Seoul. You will work closely with cross-functional partners in compliance, tax, IP enforcement, accounting/finance and other business and legal stakeholders located in Universal’s APAC, Los Angeles and London offices as you work across a range of licensing and legal issues.  This role will report to the VP, Business & Legal Affairs based in London.

Key Responsibilities

• Advise and coordinate with category management, marketing, product development, creative, and finance executives at all levels of seniority to identify and resolve business and legal issues (including issues relating to contract interpretation), mitigate risk, and provide ongoing counsel, advice and support.
• Draft, manage and negotiate a high volume of intellectual property license and service agreements associated with the licensing, distribution, promotion and marketing of toys, apparel, books and other consumer goods.
• Management of junior staff, fostering training and development whilst concurringly managing an independent workload.
• Supervise and review contracts and related legal work product generated by the Business & Legal Affairs team, aligning priorities and ensuring deadlines are met.
• Collaborate with NBCUniversal tax, compliance, IP/trademark, controllership/finance, litigation and other internal teams on a range of issues.
• Advise internal stakeholders on new business propositions, undertake research and identify potential issues and risks.
• Create ad-hoc contracts and legal documents as business requirements dictate.
• Assist with royalty audits, interpreting contractual language and finalising settlement agreements.
• Perform additional duties and manage special projects as needed.