Accountant

BBC Group; Cardiff; Híbrido; GBP 47.000 - 53.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Flexible working

Hybrid working

35-hour week

25 days annual leave

Pension scheme

Descripción de la vacante

The BBC Group in Cardiff is seeking an experienced Accountant to join Finance Operations on a hybrid basis. You will own core accounting activities including month-end close, accruals and prepayments, and balance sheet reconciliations, ensuring accurate and well‑controlled financial accounting.

This role offers a £47,000-£53,000 salary, flexible working discussions, and opportunities to collaborate with stakeholders across BBC Finance.

Formación

• Professional accounting qualification required (e.g., ACA, ACCA, CIMA).
• Experience delivering high‑quality accounting services, incl. asset accounting.
• Strong Excel skills and ability to model financial data.
• Excellent communication and ability to influence stakeholders.

Responsabilidades

• Contribute to financial reporting and control over subledgers and GL.
• Manage ERP general ledger transactions and internal controls.
• Support audits with the Finance Controller, FP&A teams and partners.
• Provide accounting judgments in line with BBC policies and standards.
• Oversee capital accounting and balance sheet reconciliations.

Conocimientos

Accounting qualification

Financial accounting

Fixed asset accounting

Advanced Excel

Financial modelling

Educación

Professional accounting qualification (ACA/ACCA/CIMA)

Herramientas

Excel

ERP systems

Descripción del empleo

Cardiff, GBR, CF10 1FT
| Cardiff, GBR, CF10 1FT

JOB DETAILS

JOB BAND: D
CONTRACT TYPE: Continuing
DEPARTMENT: Finance
LOCATION: Cardiff
PROPOSED SALARY RANGE: £47,000 - £53,000 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.

We're happy to discuss flexible working. If you'd like to, please indicate your preference in the application – though there's no obligation to do so now. Flexible working will be part of the discussion at offer stage.

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. As an Accountant within Finance Operations, you will play a key role in delivering accurate, timely and well-controlled financial accounting across the BBC. You will take ownership of core accounting activities including month-end close, accruals and prepayments, balance sheet reconciliations and journals, ensuring financial information is complete, accurate and supported by appropriate controls.

WHY JOIN THE TEAM

This is an opportunity to join a collaborative Finance Operations team 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. You will gain broad exposure across financial accounting and business operations, working with a range of stakeholders and developing your understanding of how financial information flows through the organisation

YOUR KEY RESPONSIBILITIES AND IMPACT

As an Accountant your key duties will involve some or all of the following:

• Contribute to financial reporting processes, ensuring accurate understanding of divisional performance and robust control over subledgers and general ledger integration.
• Manage and maintain accurate ERP general ledger transactions, ensuring compliance with accounting standards, internal controls, and continuous process improvement.
• Support audits and work collaboratively with the Finance Controller, Senior Accountant, FP&A teams, stakeholders, and outsourced partners.
• Provide accounting expertise, applying and documenting accounting judgements in line with BBC policies and accounting standards.
• Oversee capital accounting and balance sheet reconciliations, including fixed asset management, depreciation reviews, impairment assessments, and compliance with internal control requirements.

YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

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, ideally including capital project or fixed asset accounting
• Advanced Excel and financial modelling skills, with the ability to analyse and interpret key financial data.
• 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

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.

Before your start date, you may need to disclose any unspent convictions or police charges, in line with our Recruitment policy. This allows us to discuss any support you may need and assess any risks. Failure to disclose may result in the withdrawal of your offer.

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.

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.

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Life at BBC

Here you will benefit from:

• 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 pensionscheme 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 as important as what we do.

Benefits may vary if you are joining on an FTC basis or on an orchestra conditions contract.

Learn more about life at the BBC and our values in our candidate pack.

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.

Find out more about diversity, inclusion and belonging in our strategy below.

Diversity, inclusion & belonging strategy

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: [e-mail]

Use of AI: Guidance for Candidates

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We want to hear about your experiences, your skills and what motivates you. The strongest applications are the ones that reflect your own thinking, achievements and perspective. So whilst you're welcome to use AI for support, we encourage you to make sure your application reflects your own voice and tells your story.

You will find more guidance about using AI in the recruitment process on our careers site below.

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