BBC Careers – Finance Manager

About the job

Job Introduction

Are you looking for autonomy and the opportunity to make an impact within a globally recognized organization? Do you possess experience in a Group Finance consolidation role? We’d like to hear from you, and we think you’d like to hear a bit more about our newest Finance Manager opening.

We’re looking for a Finance Manager to provide professional financial support to BBC Studios Production. Could this be you?

About Us

We’re a one-stop-shop that touches every aspect of the value chain from production to exploitation – whether that’s financing or developing a show, producing it or selling it globally. And we make sure it gets to you no matter how you access it: through linear channels or digital platforms, consumer products, live events and much more.

Why do we do this? To enhance the BBC’s creative reputation, leverage its intellectual property, and invest in its content. The revenues we generate supports the wider British creative industries in general and builds awareness of great British content. But we also assist the BBC’s public service mission by reinvesting our profits back into the BBC. Over the last seven years, we’ve generated revenues of £1.4bn and returned £200m annually to the BBC Group.

We strive to be the best British content company in the world, attracting the best creative talents in the business, so that we can bring premium quality award-winning programmes, content and brands to you no matter where you are.

Role Responsibility

Actuals

• Consolidate central view of actuals, comparing to forecast and prior year and preparing commentary

Budget & Forecasting

• Review and challenge forecast submissions, providing financial advice on a range of issues. Challenge actual or potential variations to budgets
• Quarterly reconciliation of phased forecast and budget submissions across P&L, Balance Sheet, Cashflow and other key metrics

Controls

• Act as custodian of BBC financial policies , advise on compliance to policy and best practice.
• Ensuring consistent treatment of accounting policies across the portfolio of production labels and implementing and supporting change

Accounting & Reporting

• Provide financial information to relevant stakeholders, ensure that all statutory reporting obligations are met
• Ownership of intercompany eliminations by genre across productions and content investment

Ad Hoc

• Ad hoc project work to understand and seek improvements to processes within Production and simplify reporting

Are you the right candidate?

Essential

• Professional accounting qualification ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent
• Significant experience of a finance function within a complex matrix organisation
• Experience of working with and the analysis and interpretation of financial information
• Significant experience of the application of governance and control principles.
• Highly developed written and verbal communication skills with the ability to influence.

Desirable

• Experience in a Group Finance consolidation role (understanding of eliminations/PURP/intercompany etc)
• Experience with financial systems: S4, ECC and BPC

Package Description

Band: E

Contract type: Permanent

Location: London, Television Centre, White City (2/3 days per week remote working).

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 competitive salary package, a flexible 35-hour working week for work-life balance and 26 days (1 of which is a corporation day) with the option to buy an extra 5 days, a defined pension scheme and discounted dental, health care, gym and much more.

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 in the document attached below.

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