Luke Smith is a seasoned finance business analyst with extensive experience in the media industry. Throughout his roles, he has honed his skills in Microsoft Office Suite, including Excel at an intermediate level, SAP, and Longview reporting systems. Luke enjoys building relationships with his team, developing staff members, improving and automating systems and structures, and learning from others.

During his tenure at Comedy Central, he was responsible for managing the revenue and cost P&Ls for Comedy Central UK and BET, cash flow reporting, variance analysis, and presenting consolidated cross brand P&L live event reports. He was also in charge of communicating and managing financials and keeping up-to-date with business changes with department heads, identifying business risks and opportunities, and reviewing DOA approvals & advising business partners. Luke was able to save over £100k in his review of contractual language in the digital P&L.

Currently, Luke works as a finance business analyst at BBC studios. He has experience contributing to strategy meetings with senior departmental heads, tracking, and assisting individual departmental spend and external & inter-company fee negotiation for budget contributions and contractual costs. In summary, Luke is a finance professional with a forte for automating systems and structures, analyzing contracts, and building relationships.