Principal Systems Engineer

Package Description

Job Reference: 22739
Band: D
Salary: £60,000 - £70,000 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.
Contract type: 18 Month Attachment / Fixed Term Contract
Location: London - New Broadcasting House / Cardiff (This is a hybrid role and the successful candidate will balance office working with home working)
Closing Date: 28th of April 2025

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 and gym. You can find out more about working at the BBC by selecting this link to our candidate pack.

If you need to discuss adjustments or access requirements for the interview process please contact the reasonable.adjustments@bbc.co.uk. For any general queries, please contact: bbchr@bbc.co.uk.

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Introduction

The BBC is one of the UK's most well-known and loved brands, committed to delivering high-quality content that informs, educates, and entertains audiences both across the UK and globally.

This exciting role sits in the BBC's Technology & Media Operations group, which delivers the technology requirements of the BBC across broadcast, enterprise, and digital to the strategy set by the business.

Reporting into the Systems Engineering Manager for Treasury, Expenses and Payroll in Corporate Systems, the role, working in partnership with peers supporting the broader finance systems landscape, will be accountable for implementation, management, and optimisation of the Rights management, Expenses, Payroll and Treasury systems within the BBC, largely delivered via SAP and SAP partner solutions such as Kyriba and Concur. This role plays a crucial part in ensuring that the BBCs solutions align with business objectives and deliver value to the BBC.

Interview Process:

• 30 minute technical interview
• 1 hour values and behaviours competency interview
• Interviews due to take place on 12th of May* this may be subject to change

Main Responsibilities

The multifaceted role encompasses functional management and direct technical contribution, working as a team to deliver activities such as technical planning, design, analysis, implementation, system integration, validation and verification. Covering all phases within a product lifecycle.

Are you the right candidate

Essential Skills

• Demonstratable and relevant recent experience of working within a complex SAP landscape
• Experience in the design, delivery or support of technical systems and infrastructure
• Strong relationship management skills, persuasive and able to steer through change
• Excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills to engage with stakeholders at all levels
• Experience of partnering with outsourced partners to deliver process and technology changes.
• Strong analytical skills to assess system performance and drive improvements.
• Experience of working on projects as a functional and technical expert to deliver change
• Expertise in translating project, user and product requirements into technical solutions
• Good knowledge of SAP Finance processes and systems plus ideally Contingent Worker or Rights Management processes and systems

Desired Skills

• Experience of working with SAP Reporting tools such as BW, BPC
• Integration Knowledge with SAP FI/HR
• Experience in the media sector or broadcast environment
• Knowledge of other SAP modules such as MM, SD
• Qualified Accountant (CIMA or ACCA)
• Experience in configuring or working with interfaces

About the BBC

The BBC is committed to redeploying employees seeking suitable alternative employment within the BBC for different reasons 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.

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.

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Principal Systems Engineer

Technology Systems & Delivery

Fixed Term - Full Time