Accountant - Capital and Leasing

BBC Studios Ltd; Cardiff; Hybrid; GBP 47,000 - GBP 53,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading media organization is seeking a skilled Accountant to join the Finance Operations team in Cardiff. This role offers a hybrid working model and focuses on capital accounting practices. Responsibilities include maintaining asset registers, supporting audits, and ensuring financial compliance. Candidates should hold a professional accounting qualification and possess significant experience in delivering high-quality accounting services, with strong communication skills preferred.

Benefits

Flexible working

Competitive salary package

25 days annual leave plus options to buy more

Defined pension scheme

Discounted health care and gym

Qualifications

• Significant experience delivering high-quality accounting service.
• Proven experience in accounting for capital projects.
• Ability to communicate complex data in understandable ways.

Responsibilities

• Maintain the Fixed asset register and conduct impairment reviews.
• Perform asset verification and manage transaction records.
• Support internal and external audits.

Skills

Professional accounting qualification (ACA, ACCA, CIMA)

Experience in capital accounting

Highly developed communication skills

Advanced Excel and modelling skills

Planning and organization skills

Education

Professional accounting qualification

Job description

JOB BAND: D
CONTRACT TYPE: Permanent, Full-time
DEPARTMENT: Finance
LOCATION: Hybrid (Cardiff)
PROPOSED SALARY RANGE: £47,000 - £53,000 per annum, depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.

We're happy to discuss flexible working. If you'd like to, please indicate your preference in the application – though there's no obligation to do so now. Flexible working will be part of the discussion at offer stage.

Purpose of the role

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. The role will sit in the Capital and Leasing team with a focus on Capital accounting.

Why join the team

The team is at the heart of BBC Finance, delivering an integrated, sustainable and high quality process accounting and reporting service to our business and finance customers across the BBC Group.

Your key responsibilities and impact

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

• Maintenance of the Fixed asset register - including changes to locations, asset owners, disposals and write offs, impairments
• Aged AUC reviews and depreciation reviews - confirming the charges have been allocated correctly and value is correct
• Performing asset verification, either via physical site visits or via Teams meetings, to confirm the assets are still in use
• Undertake impairment reviews of assets
• Attend Project Review Meetings, provide SME advice on accounting treatment
• Contribute to reporting processes to ensure the financial position and performance of different sections of the BBC Group is understood and key issues are rectified, ensuring appropriate process is observed with control over sub ledgers and integration with the general ledger
• Manage the accurate recording of transactions in the ERP general ledger, ensuring compliance with relevant accounting standards and internal controls and improving efficiency and controls of financial processes, methodologies and environments where possible
• Support the efficient delivery of internal and external audits (including preparation of annual reports and other external reporting requirements)
• Collaborate with key partners and stakeholders including our outsourced partner, other finance teams, divisional and group stakeholders where appropriate
• Document and implement accounting judgements in accordance with BBC policy and accounting standards
• Compile and review balance sheet reconciliations supported by appropriate testing, ensuring full compliance with internal controls and our minimum expected requirements, with fully evidenced and substantiated balances
• Provide professional financial support to a range of stakeholders, effective control of financial processes and delivering operational excellence.

Your skills and experience

ESSENTIAL CRITERIA:
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.
• Experience of accounting for capital projects / working within in a capital accounting team would be highly beneficial
• 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, both finance and non-finance
• Have knowledge of the theory and practical application of accounting principles and controls.
• Possess advanced excel and modelling skills, in relation to key finance information
• Be able to demonstrate strong planning and organisation skills with the ability to prioritise workload effectively.

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.

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.

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.

Information at a Glance

This is your BBC

At the BBC you can create and innovate in an inclusive environment while contributing to some of the world’s best loved content, and the BBC’s mission to inform, educate and entertain.

Life at BBC

Here you will benefit from:

• 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.
• Excellent career and professional development.
• Support in your working life, including flexible working which you can discuss with us at any point during the application, selection or offer.
• A values-based organisation where the way we do things is important as what we do.

Benefits may vary if you are joining on an FTC basis or on an orchestra conditions contract.

Learn more about life at the BBC and our values in our candidate pack.

You belong

We have a working environment where we value and respect every individual's unique contribution, so all our employees feel that they can belong, thrive and achieve their full potential.

We want to attract the broadest range of talented people to join us. The more diverse our workforce, the better able we are to respond to and reflect our audiences in all their diversity.

We welcome applications from individuals, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief.

Find out more about diversity, inclusion and belonging in our strategy below.

Diversity, inclusion & belonging strategy

Disability confident

We are a disability confident employer. If you need to discuss adjustments or access requirements for the interview process, or to carry out this role, please contact us via email and we’d be happy to discuss: [e-mail]

BBC Group and Public Services, Broadcasting House, Portland Place, London, United Kingdom, W1A 1AA. BBC Studios Distribution Limited, company no: 01420028, registered address: 1 Television Centre, 101 Wood Lane, London, United Kingdom W12 7FA.