BBC Hiring for Finance Manager Job at Salford, North West England, England Full Time

We are looking for a Finance Manager to join the Production Accounting team in Salford. You will work with a Head of Finance and a team of other Finance Managers supporting BBC Studios produced content, mainly supporting Kids & Family (formerly Children’s). Candidates based in other locations may be considered if they have the relevant experience.

Main Responsibilities

As a Finance Manager in Production Accounting, you will provide professional financial support and advice to a range of key stakeholders within BBC Studios. You will also maintain the integrity and control of financial systems and processes, working with a team of Production Accountants and Assistant Production Accountants who you will assume managerial responsibility for, supervising their training and development. You will work with the Head of Finance to schedule your team to provide the appropriate level of support to Production Management.

Are you the right candidate?

We are looking for someone with:

• Extensive experience as a production accountant working on a range of productions across different genres
• Experience of mentoring and/or coaching staff, contributing to their development
• The ability to suggest and implement improvements that help create efficient and effective ways of working
• The ability to establish best practice and ensure a consistent way of working and a culture of peer group support
• Experience of partnering with your production area to deliver great results

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.

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Package Description

Band: E
Contract type: Permanent
Location: Salford-based role with some flexibility, ie hybrid 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.

The situation regarding the coronavirus outbreak is developing quickly and the BBC is keen to continue to ensure the safety and wellbeing of people across the BBC, while continuing to protect our services. To reduce the risk access to BBC buildings is limited to those essential to our broadcast output. From Wednesday 18th March until further notice all assessments and interviews will be conducted remotely. For more information go to https://www.bbc.co.uk/careers/

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