JOB DETAILS
JOB BAND: D
CONTRACT TYPE: Permanent
DEPARTMENT: Commercial Group Finance
LOCATION: London Television centre - Hybrid
PROPOSED SALARY RANGE: £50,000 - £56,000 plus £5441 London Weighting, depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.
WE ARE BBC STUDIOS
A globally renowned media company borne of the BBC. We make and distribute the world's most sought-after TV, audio and digital content. Our ambition is to be the home of the most powerful, entertaining, and inspiring stories for people all around the world.
PURPOSE OF THE ROLE
This role is central to delivering accurate financial insights and ensuring compliance across statutory, tax, and technical accounting areas. You'll be the go-to expert for complex queries, while also maintaining a sharp eye on balance sheet integrity and month-end processes. Reporting directly to the Finance Manager, you'll be a trusted contributor in a fast-paced, commercially focused finance environment.
WHY JOIN THE TEAM
You'll be part of a collaborative finance function that values precision, innovation, and impact. This role offers the chance to influence key reporting outcomes, work cross-functionally, and grow your technical expertise. With a strong support network and clear development pathways, it's a brilliant opportunity to thrive in a high-performing team that underpins BBC Studios' global success.
Your Key Responsibilities And Impact
* Prepare Financial Statements: Draft standalone financial statements and notes for UK entities, ensuring timely and accurate reporting.
* Support Consolidated Reporting: Assist with parent company consolidation and submission of BBC Commercial Group year-end figures.
* Audit & Compliance: Coordinate with external auditors and ensure adherence to regulatory requirements.
* Technical Accounting Expertise: Address complex accounting issues including revenue recognition, leases, tax, FX, and consolidation.
* Policy & Standards Maintenance: Monitor updates to accounting standards and support internal policy alignment.
* Tax & Finance Collaboration: Provide financial data to tax teams and partner with finance teams to ensure accuracy and compliance.
* FX & Ad Hoc Support: Manage foreign exchange exposure and contribute to various ad hoc financial projects.
Essential Criteria
YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
* ACA or ACCA qualification, with a strong auditing and/or financial accounting background.
* Industry & Technical Expertise: industry exposure, solid accounting knowledge, including IFRS, FRS 101 & consolidation.
* Team and process leadership experience: Experience guiding junior team members and managing workload across a team
* Excel & reporting skills: Strong proficiency in Excel, with hands-on experience in financial reporting and analysis.
Desired But Not Required
* Big 4 qualification and experience
* Solid understanding of tax reporting and compliance within a financial accounting framework advantageous
* Media & Entertainment experience preferred, but a strong enthusiasm for media and entertainment is valued.
* Experience working in a matrix organisation
* SAP Proficiency: Familiarity with SAP for financial reporting and analysis.
* Experience with data analysis tools such as Power BI or Tableau.
If you can bring some of these skills and experience, along with transferable strengths, we'd love to hear from you and encourage you to apply.
NEXT STEPS
We appreciate your interest in this position and understand how important this opportunity is to you. Due to the high volume of interest, we may need to close the application period earlier than anticipated. This step is necessary to ensure we can provide a high level of attention and service to all applicants. Thank you for your understanding.
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.
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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.
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.
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.