# Accountant

**Company**: BBC
**Location**: Cardiff
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Salary**: £47,000 - £53,000
**Category**: Finance
**Industry**: Media & Entertainment

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## Description

We are looking to recruit a high calibre Accountant to join our Finance Operations team based in Cardiff with some flexibility i.e. hybrid working.

As an Accountant within Finance Operations, you will play a key role in delivering accurate, timely and well-controlled financial accounting across the BBC. You will take ownership of core accounting activities including month-end close, accruals and prepayments, balance sheet reconciliations and journals, ensuring financial information is complete, accurate and supported by appropriate controls.

**Your Key Responsibilities and Impact**

As an Accountant your key duties will involve some or all of the following:

- Contribute to financial reporting processes, ensuring accurate understanding of divisional performance and robust control over subledgers and general ledger integration.

- Manage and maintain accurate ERP general ledger transactions, ensuring compliance with accounting standards, internal controls, and continuous process improvement.

- Support audits and work collaboratively with the Finance Controller, Senior Accountant, FP&A teams, stakeholders, and outsourced partners.

- Provide accounting expertise, applying and documenting accounting judgements in line with BBC policies and accounting standards.

- Oversee capital accounting and balance sheet reconciliations, including fixed asset management, depreciation reviews, impairment assessments, and compliance with internal control requirements.

**Your Skills and Experience**

- 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, ideally including capital project or fixed asset accounting

- Advanced Excel and financial modelling skills, with the ability to analyse and interpret key financial data.

- Possess highly developed communication skills with the ability to influence.

- Be able to take complex data/principles and to communicate these in an understandable way to wider BBC team

**Benefits**

- Fair pay and flexible benefits including a competitive salary package, a flexible 35-hour working week, 25 days annual leave with the option to buy an extra 5 days, a defined pension scheme and discounted dental, health care and gym.

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## Skills

### Required
- ACA
- ACCA
- CIMA
- financial modelling
- Excel
- communication skills

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