Head of Finance - ICFR

Job Band: F

Contract Type: Permanent, Full-time

Department: BBC Studios Group Finance

Location: London Television Centre – Hybrid

Proposed Salary Range: Up to £110,000 plus £5441 London Weighting and up to 25% bonus depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.

Purpose of the Role

BBC Studios is driving an ambitious five‑year growth plan, which relies on strong processes, a solid control environment, and high‑quality financial reporting. To support this, the Head of Finance – ICFR will lead the implementation and embedding of a new ICFR framework across all Lines of Business, assessing financial reporting risks and ensuring governance standards remain aligned with BBC Group expectations.

Why Join the Team

This role offers the opportunity to shape a critical commercial transformation within a high‑profile organisation. Reporting to the BBC Studios Group Financial Controller, you’ll lead a dedicated team and work closely with senior finance leaders across BBC Studios and the wider Group. It’s a chance to drive meaningful change, influence strategic decision‑making, and contribute directly to the organisation’s long‑term commercial success.

Your Key Responsibilities and Impact

• Lead the implementation and embedding of the new ICFR framework for BBC Commercial, ensuring alignment with the BBC Group framework and driving adoption across the business.
• Understand key processes, risks, and controls across in-scope FSLIs, performing walkthroughs and assessing control design effectiveness end‑to‑end.
• Plan, execute, and review Operational Effectiveness testing in line with audit standards, ensuring robust evidence and challenge.
• Support remediation of control deficiencies, providing SME guidance to control owners and ensuring Expected Minimum Controls address key risks.
• Manage clear, accurate ICFR reporting for forums and committees, raising awareness of ICFR requirements and recommending improvements.
• Act as the key liaison with the BBC ICFR team, supporting annual Group-level attestation and ensuring BBC Commercial meets major ICFR milestones.
• Lead the Commercial ICFR team and provide ICFR expertise to Finance leadership, projects, and stakeholders, including training and capability development.

Essential Criteria

Your Skills and Experience

• A fully qualified Accountant (e.g., ACCA, ACA, CIMA, or equivalent qualification)
• Significant and relevant ICFR/SOX demonstrable experience, including developing, implementing and monitoring financial controls in an international matrix organisation
• A strong business acumen with ability to identify and translate risk concepts into actionable insights
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to convey technical knowledge relating to risk and control, financial information and policy to senior stakeholders and non‑financial stakeholders
• Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills, and proven ability to prioritise effectively
• Ability to drive effective decision‑making and support performance management. Experience of leading and developing a team

Desired but Not Required

• Project management experience
• Controls‑design effectiveness testing
• Experience in managing change within an organisation, particularly in relation to implementing new frameworks and processes
• Media and entertainment knowledge and experience

If you can bring some of these skills and experience, along with transferable strengths, we’d love to hear from you and encourage you to apply as soon as possible.

We appreciate your interest in this position and understand how important this opportunity is to you. Due to the high volume of interest we may need to close the application period earlier than anticipated. This step is necessary to ensure we can provide a high level of attention and service to all applicants. Thank you for your understanding.

Disclaimer

This job description is a written statement of the essential characteristics of the job, with its principal accountabilities, incorporating a note of the skills, knowledge and experience required for a satisfactory level of performance. This is not intended to be a complete, detailed account of all aspects of the duties involved.

Please note: If you were to be offered this role, the BBC will conduct Employment screening checks which include Reference checks; Eligibility to work checks; and if applicable to the role, Safeguarding and Adverse media/Social media checks. Any offer made is conditional on these checks being satisfactory.

Redeployment

The BBC is committed to redeploying employees seeking suitable alternative employment within the BBC and they will be given priority consideration ahead of other applicants. Priority consideration means for those employees seeking redeployment their application will be considered alongside anyone else at risk of redundancy, prior to any individuals being considered who are not at risk.