Senior Accountant in Cardiff

Job Requisition ID: 43586

Job Closing Date: 20th August 2026

Location: Location flexible across BBC UK bases, with frequent travel to Cardiff required

PURPOSE OF THE ROLE

We are looking for a Senior Accountant to support the smooth operation of accounting processes across BBC Finance Operations, leading the team delivering Corporate Function divisional accounts. The Senior Accountant will support the Finance Controller, ensuring all period-end deadlines are met to support the delivery of accurate and timely accounting, ensuring adherence to our internal control framework and managing the integrity and controllership of the reported actuals, including income statement, balance sheet and cashflow statement.

The successful candidate will have strong technical accounting skills and expertise, experienced with ensuring compliance with financial reporting standards (IFRS). Working within our internal controls framework, you will oversee the divisions day-to-day financial operations, and ensure the integrity of accounting data, making sure ledgers are accurate, and monthly management information and financial statements are prepared on time. You will work with a wide range of stakeholders and will be able to quickly establish yourself as a trusted and credible finance professional.

Your Key Responsibilities and Impact

• Ensuring a robust accounting close process across both month and year-end.
• Line management of the divisional accounting team.
• Oversight of monthly actuals, validating and ensuring the integrity of the numbers.
• Managing the liaison with external stakeholders where required including our outsource provider and appointed external auditors.
• Providing sound technical and expert financial/accounting advice to support insightful and informed business decision making, including impact assessment.
• Working closely with wider finance and business colleagues to deliver and report accurate numbers to stakeholders whilst ensuring that internal Finance controls, including accounting principles and standards, are adhered to and applied on a consistent basis.
• Ability to communicate complex financial matters clearly and concisely to non-finance stakeholders.

Your Skills and Experience

Essential

• A fully qualified CCAB accountant with a sound understanding of financial controls.
• Substantial experience of managing a team, and coaching and mentoring others in a finance function, planning activity to meet tight deadlines.
• Accustomed to, and confident in, liaising with senior finance and non-finance stakeholders with a service delivery focus.
• A strong technical knowledge, ideally with experience of IFRS and a good understanding of financial reporting.
• Able to evidence a continuous improvement mindset, with clear successes in implementing new processes.
• A team player, able to build solid working relationships across own team and beyond.
• Inquisitive mindset coupled with the ability to investigate and resolve challenging/complex problems.

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.

For any general queries, please contact: bbchr@bbc.co.uk

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.

Information at a Glance

This is your BBC. At the BBC you can create and innovate in an inclusive environment while contributing to some of the world's best loved content, and the BBC's mission to inform, educate and entertain.

Life at BBC

Fair pay and flexible benefits including a competitive salary package, a flexible 35-hour working week, 25 days annual leave with the option to buy an extra 5 days, a defined pension scheme and discounted dental, health care and gym. Excellent career and professional development. Support in your working life, including flexible working which you can discuss with us at any point during the application, selection or offer.

A values-based organisation where the way we do things is important as what we do. Benefits may vary if you are joining on an FTC basis or on an orchestra conditions contract.

Candidate pack

You belong. We have a working environment where we value and respect every individual's unique contribution, so all our employees feel that they can belong, thrive and achieve their full potential. We want to attract the broadest range of talented people to join us. The more diverse our workforce, the better able we are to respond to and reflect our audiences in all their diversity.

We welcome applications from individuals, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief.

Disability confident

We are a disability confident employer. If you need to discuss adjustments or access requirements for the interview process, or to carry out this role, please contact us via email and we'd be happy to discuss: reasonable.adjustments@bbc.co.uk