Article: The Financial Director interview - The money programme. Some people dread the prospect of change, but Zarin Patel, the first woman to ever hold the BBC's top finance job, absolutely thrives on it. And when she's not crunching numbers, she's chopping headcount.(British Broadcasting Corp.)(Interview)

Byline: Sarah Perrin.

Change, and the thrill of managing change, is what gets Zarin Patel out of bed in the morning. A good thing, too, because as group FD of the BBC there's a lot of it around.

The BBC is no stranger to change. In the 1990s, then director-general John Birt pursued his reforming mission to introduce more discipline and financial control, management reform and internal markets. With Greg Dyke's appointment in 2000, the mood changed to one of cutting back the resulting administrative layer that had grown up to manage those new disciplines.

With the BBC's Royal Charter up for renewal in 2007, the pressure is on again to meet ...

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