Accountant - Finance Operations

BBC Group and Public Services; Cardiff; Hybrid; GBP 47,000 - 53,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking talented Accountants to join its Finance Operations team in Cardiff. This role offers an exciting opportunity to contribute to high-quality accounting services, ensuring compliance with accounting standards and internal controls. You will manage financial processes and collaborate with diverse stakeholders, all while enjoying flexible working arrangements and excellent career progression. With unrivaled training opportunities and a commitment to diversity, this position is perfect for those looking to make a significant impact in a dynamic environment.

Benefits

Flexible working hours

25 days annual leave

Defined pension scheme

Discounted dental and health care

Gym membership

Training and development opportunities

Qualifications

• Hold a professional accounting qualification such as ACA, ACCA, or CIMA.
• Significant experience in delivering high-quality accounting services.

Responsibilities

• Manage accurate recording of transactions in the ERP general ledger.
• Contribute to reporting processes to ensure financial performance is understood.
• Take responsibility for month end, quarter end, and annual accounting processes.

Skills

Professional accounting qualification (ACA, ACCA, CIMA)

Communication skills

Planning and organization skills

Knowledge of accounting principles

Education

Professional accounting qualification

Job description

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Accountant - Finance Operations

Finance

Permanent - Full Time

Cardiff, GB, CF10 1FT

BBC PUBLIC SERVICE B'CAST

Job Closing Date: 18/05/2025

THE ROLE

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 .

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.

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.

To find out more about Diversity and Inclusion at the BBC, please click here .

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.

BBC Group and Public Services, Broadcasting House, Portland Place, London, United Kingdom, W1A 1AA. BBC Studios Distribution Limited, company no: 01420028, registered address: 1 Television Centre, 101 Wood Lane, London, United Kingdom W12 7FA.