Management Accountant

2 months ago

All Cities, United Kingdom BBC Full time
Package Description

Job Reference: 17850

Band:
D

Salary:
£44k- £48k depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.

Location:
Cardiff Central Square

Contract: 12 month FTC

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.
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Job Purpose


The BBC Finance team in Cardiff delivers an integrated, sustainable and high quality accounting and reporting service to our business and Finance stakeholders across the whole of the BBC.

We are seeking a Management Accountant to join our team. This is a Permanent opportunity within the Financial Planning & Insight (FP&I) team based in Cardiff with hybrid working.

Key Responsibilities and Accountabilities

As a Management Accountant you will:

  • Undertake the monthly reporting of financial performance, including variance analysis, in addition to other stakeholder reporting
  • Devise and manage appropriate reporting models and templates that provide insightful and relevant analysis, suitable for driving effective and decisive decision making to support the delivery of our strategic priorities.
  • Take responsibility for month end and annual accounting processes, including liaison with the external auditors, managing this from start to end and working with a range of stakeholders.
  • Provide professional financial support to a range of stakeholders, maintain and support effective financial controls/processes and delivering operational excellence.
  • Be responsible for the management and delivery of business plans feeding into the annual budget process.
  • Drive continuous improvement within your area. Demonstrate excellent communication skills with both internal and external stakeholders and the ability to work collaboratively in a team.
Knowledge, Skills, Training & Experience

You will have strong analytical skills and be fully qualified with a professional accounting qualification (e.g. ACCA, ACA, CIMA).

Management accounting and/or Financial Reporting knowledge and the ability to establish and maintain effective relationships with staff, both within the FP&I team and the wider BBC Finance division.

You will be required to operate independently but effective team playing is also important due to the nature and size of the Finance team.

You will be required to operate in line with BBC Values.

Job Impact


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.

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