The right Charlie ?

Tim Senior, the BBC's interim Director of Corporate Finance is moving on.  He joined the BBC a year and a half ago, as Director of Financial and Commercial Strategy, from private equity group Terra Firma. Prior to that he was a media and telecoms consultant with Oxera.

From Monday, the role goes to Charles Villar, who takes responsibility for long term  planning, and, joy-of-joys, gets to help with the new 16% "efficiency" programme.  Charles spent 1991 to 2003 with Deloittes then Arthur Andersen, as a financial consultant in the inevitable "media and telecoms" area; and then joined the Department for Business when they set up the Shareholder Executive, designed to make the Government more savvy about its part or full ownership of things like the Royal Mint, Ordnance Survey, and, eventually, Northern Rock.  He's also taken an interest in Channel 4, and BBC Worldwide (and thus, possibly, might have been known to BBC CFO Zarin Patel, who sits on the Worldwide Board as a non-exec; it might explain the use of the more familiar "Charlie" in her announcement of the appointment)