Group Financial Accounting Manager Group Financial Accounting Manager

An exciting opportunity to join the BBC Studios (BBCS) Group Finance team on a 12 month FTC to cover parental leave. This role oversees the external reporting for the business and manages a team of four Finance Analysts. Reporting to the Head of Group Finance, the role sits within a broader Group Finance FP&A and Reporting team that looks after group internal and external reporting, planning and analysis. The Group Financial Accounting Manager will support the Director of Group Finance and Head of Group Finance with responsibility for statutory and external reporting requirements for BBCS. You will play a pivotal part in supporting BBCS Finance teams to achieve strong technical accuracy and you will manage the group audit and year end process.,

• Monitor existing and new accounting policies for the group to ensure they comply with all relevant accounting standards (IFRS).
• Communicate changes to accounting policies and practice to relevant stakeholders across the business and ensure that accounting policies are applied consistently throughout the group.
• Review contracts and ensure accounting treatment is compliant with group policy and IFRS.
• Prepare technical summary papers for complex accounting transactions or business issues.
• Business partnering with other departments (Tax, Treasury, Legal, Corporate Finance) and operating business areas to consider and advise on new or complex accounting scenarios to support decision making. This includes regular updates with financial controllers throughout the group.
• Assist the BBC Group Reporting team to ensure that periodic reporting is accurate, timely and complies with all relevant accounting standards and regulations.
• Be primary point of contact for NAO with regards to audit queries on BBCS.
• Review the group's financial statements and provide technical accounting input where required.
• Manage the financial statement preparation process for various BBCS commercial subsidiaries.
• Provide information, support, and liaise with external auditors and advisors.
• Mentor and coach four direct reports.
• Additional ad hoc work, projects and analysis to support the team and wider business.
• Oversee the group-wide hedging and foreign exchange risk management programme, including associated reporting
• Provide tax reporting for the group and liaise directly with tax team throughout the year on corporate tax matters
• Review balance sheet reconciliations status and drive continuous improvement on controls to meet future legal requirements
  
  You'll have extensive experience and a deep understanding of IFRS and technical accounting concepts and policies.
• You will understand the consolidation principles in an international group, including an awareness of the impact of foreign exchange on trading performance.
• You will be accomplished in communicating, managing and co-ordinating consolidation across a multidivisional organisation and will demonstrate enthusiasm and commitment to improve the effectiveness of financial reporting processes, using initiative, anticipating issues and develop sensible, practical solutions to deliver high quality output to tight deadlines.
• You're a confident team player with strong influencing, facilitation and communication skills.
• With a collaborative approach, acting for both local and global needs, you're able to influence divisional teams to deliver quality output to tight deadlines in a challenging environment.
• You'll operate with transparency, creating an environment of shared understanding. In addition, you'll be experienced in influencing and coaching staff.
• In addition to holding a CIMA / ACCA qualification and have significant post qualification experience, you will have excellent numerical and analytical skills, in addition to strong project management and organisational skills.
  
  BBC Studios is a world-renowned content studio and channels & streaming business, powered by British creativity, with a reach that touches audiences in every corner of the globe.
We work with outstanding creative talent who are responsible for platform-defining shows from Strictly Come Dancing to Bluey, Prehistoric Planet to Planet Earth III. The range and quality of our content is unsurpassed, creating critical and commercial successes and global phenomena. From BAFTAs to RTS Awards, BBC Studios is Britain's most awarded production company and the only producer with three of the top ten shows on IMDB; we're the home of bbc.com, the widest-read English language news website in the world; and the UK's largest distributor of British content.


• We offer a competitive salary package
• Flexible 35-hour working week for work-life balance
• 26 days holiday (plus an additional day 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
• Excellent career progression - access to courses, webinars, workshops and the opportunity to work in different areas of the organisation