Accountant - Finance Operations and Group Finance

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Package Description

• Job Reference: 022845
• Salary: £47,000 - £53,000 per annum, depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience.
• Band: D
• Contract type: Permanent
• Location: Hybrid (Cardiff base)

Job Introduction

We are looking to recruit a number of high calibre Accountants to join our Finance Operations and BBC Group Finance teams based in Cardiff with some flexibility i.e. hybrid working. Both teams are 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. We are recruiting across various teams, and will align the best skills to the most suitable areas.

Main Responsibilities

As an Accountant, in either team, your key duties will involve some or all of the following:

• 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, ensuring appropriate process is observed with control over sub ledgers and integration with the general ledger.
• Manage the accurate recording of transactions in the ERP general ledger, ensuring compliance with relevant accounting standards and internal controls and improving efficiency and controls of financial processes, methodologies and environments where possible.
• Support the efficient delivery of internal and external audits (including preparation of annual reports and other external reporting requirements).
• 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, ensuring full compliance with internal controls and our minimum expected requirements, with fully evidenced and substantiated balances.
• Provide professional financial support to a range of stakeholders, effective control of financial processes and delivering operational excellence.

Are you the right candidate?

To be successful in this role you will need to:

• Hold a professional accounting qualification e.g. ACA, ACCA, CIMA, or equivalent.
• Have significant experience of delivering a high-quality accounting service.
• 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.

Further Information

We’re happy to discuss flexible working. Please indicate your choice under the flexible working question in the application. There is no obligation to raise this at the application stage but if you wish to do so, you are welcome to. Flexible working will be part of the discussion at offer stage.

• Excellent career progression – the BBC offers great opportunities for employees to seek new challenges and work in different areas of the organisation.
• Unrivalled training and development opportunities – our in-house Academy hosts a wide range of internal and external courses and certification.
• Benefits - We offer a negotiable salary package, a flexible 35-hour working week for work-life balance and 25 days annual leave with the option to buy an extra 5 days, a defined pension scheme and discounted dental, health care, gym and much more.

About the BBC

We don’t focus simply on what we do – we also care how we do it. Our values and the way we behave are important to us. Please make sure you’ve read about our values and behaviours here. Diversity matters at the BBC. We have a working environment where we value and respect every individual's unique contribution, enabling all of our employees to thrive and achieve their full potential. We want to attract the broadest range of talented people to be part of the BBC – whether that’s to contribute to our programming or our wide range of non-production roles. The more diverse our workforce, the better able we are to respond to and reflect our audiences in all their diversity. We are committed to equality of opportunity and welcome applications from individuals, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief. We will consider flexible working requests for all roles, unless operational requirements prevent otherwise.