Accountant - Finance Operations

BBC UK; Cardiff; Hybrid; GBP 47,000 - 53,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company is seeking high-caliber Accountants for their Finance Operations team in Cardiff. This role involves managing financial reporting, ensuring compliance with accounting standards, and collaborating with various stakeholders. The successful candidate will hold a professional accounting qualification and possess strong communication and organizational skills. The position offers a hybrid working model, excellent career progression, and comprehensive benefits.

Benefits

Flexible working hours

25 days annual leave

Defined pension scheme

Discounted health care

Gym membership

Qualifications

• Significant experience of delivering a high-quality accounting service.
• Ability to influence and communicate complex data effectively.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to reporting processes and ensure compliance with accounting standards.
• Manage month-end and quarter-end accounting processes.
• Support internal and external audits.

Skills

Communication

Planning

Organization

Education

Professional accounting qualification (e.g. ACA, ACCA, CIMA)

Job description

Package Description

Job Reference: 022845

Salary: £47,000 - £53,000 per annum, depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.

Band: D

Contract type: Permanent

Location: Hybrid (Cardiff base)

The closing Date for applications is 23:59 on Sunday 18th May 2025

Job Introduction

We are looking to recruit a number of high calibre Accountants to join our Finance Operations team based in Cardiff.

Finance Operations 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.

We are recruiting across various teams within Finance Operations, and will align the best skills to the most suitable areas.

Main Responsibilities

As an Accountant in Financial Operations, your key duties will involve the following:

• Contribute to reporting processes to ensure the financial position and performance of the Division 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
• Take responsibility for month end, quarter end and annual accounting processes, managing the processes and working with a wide range of stakeholders
• Support the Finance Controller with the efficient delivery of internal and external audits, and collaborate with outsourced partner, FP&A team, divisional 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.

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.
• Strong planning and organisation skills with the ability to prioritise workload effectively.
• Be able to take complex data/principles and to communicate these in an understandable way to wider BBC team
• Have knowledge of the theory and practical application of accounting principles and controls.

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.

Rydyn ni'n fodlon trafod gweithio'n hyblyg. Rhowch eich dewis o dan y cwestiwn gweithio'n hyblyg yn y cais. Does dim rhaid codi hyn ar y cam ymgeisio, ond mae croeso i chi wneud hynny os ydych chi'n dymuno. Bydd gweithio'n hyblyg yn rhan o'r drafodaeth ar y cam cynnig.

• Cyfle rhagorol i ddatblygu gyrfa - mae'r BBC yn cynnig cyfleoedd gwych i weithwyr chwilio am heriau newydd a gweithio mewn gwahanol rannau o'r sefydliad.

• Cyfleoedd di-ail i hyfforddi a datblygu - mae'r Academi fewnol yn cynnig amrywiaeth eang o gyrsiau ac ardystiadau mewnol ac allanol.

• Buddion - Rydym yn cynnig pecyn cyflog cystadleuol, wythnos waith hyblyg 35 awr er lles cydbwysedd rhwng bywyd a gwaith, a 25 diwrnod o wyliau gyda'r opsiwn i brynu 5 diwrnod ychwanegol, cynllun pensiwn wedi'i ddiffinio, a gostyngiadau ar ddeintyddiaeth, gofal iechyd, campfa a llawer mwy.

For this role / Ar gyfer y swydd yma:
Welsh language skills are not necessary / Nid yw sgiliau yn yr iaith Gymraeg yn angenrheidiol
Applications may be submitted in Welsh, and an application submitted in Welsh will not be treated less favourably than an application submitted in English. / Mae modd cyflwyno ceisiadau yn Gymraeg, ac ni fydd cais a gyflwynir yn Gymraeg yn cael ei drin yn llai ffafriol na chais a gyflwynir yn Saesneg.

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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.

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