Accountant - Capital and Leasing

Job Closing Date: 16/11/2025

Location: Hybrid (Cardiff)

Contract Type: Permanent, Full-time

Department: Finance

Proposed Salary Range: £47,000 - £53,000 per annum, depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience.

Purpose of the Role:

We are looking to recruit a high calibre Accountant to join our Finance Operations team based in Cardiff with some flexibility i.e. hybrid working. The role will sit in the Capital and Leasing team with a focus on Capital accounting.

Why Join the Team:

The team is at the heart of BBC Finance, delivering an integrated, sustainable and high quality process accounting and reporting service to our business and finance customers across the BBC Group.

Your Key Responsibilities and Impact:

• Maintenance of the Fixed asset register - including changes to locations, asset owners, disposals and write offs, impairments.
• Aged AUC reviews and depreciation reviews - confirming the charges have been allocated correctly and value is correct.
• Performing asset verification, either via physical site visits or via Teams meetings, to confirm the assets are still in use.
• Undertake impairment reviews of assets.
• Attend Project Review Meetings, provide SME advice on accounting treatment.
• Contribute to reporting processes to ensure the financial position and performance of different sections of the BBC Group is understood and key issues are rectified.
• Manage the accurate recording of transactions in the ERP general ledger, ensuring compliance with relevant accounting standards and internal controls.
• Support the efficient delivery of internal and external audits.
• Collaborate with key partners and stakeholders including our outsourced partner, other finance teams, divisional and group stakeholders where appropriate.
• Document and implement accounting judgements in accordance with BBC policy and accounting standards.
• Compile and review balance sheet reconciliations supported by appropriate testing.
• Provide professional financial support to a range of stakeholders, effective control of financial processes and delivering operational excellence.

Your Skills and Experience:

Essential Criteria:

• Hold a professional accounting qualification e.g. ACA, ACCA, CIMA, or equivalent.
• Have significant experience of delivering a high-quality accounting service.
• Experience of accounting for capital projects / working within a capital accounting team would be highly beneficial.
• Possess highly developed communication skills with the ability to influence.
• Be able to take complex data/principles and to communicate these in an understandable way to wider BBC team, both finance and non-finance.
• Have knowledge of the theory and practical application of accounting principles and controls.
• Possess advanced excel and modelling skills, in relation to key finance information.
• Be able to demonstrate strong planning and organisation skills with the ability to prioritise workload effectively.

If you can bring some of these skills and experience, along with transferable strengths, we would love to hear from you and encourage you to apply.

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.

Information at a Glance:

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.

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 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 would be happy to discuss.