Job Description

London, GB, W12 7FA
BBC Studios Distribution
Job Closing Date: 30/5/25

THE ROLE

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PACKAGE DESCRIPTION

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Job Reference: 23526

Band: D

Salary: Up to 55,000 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.

Contract type: 12 month FTC

Location: Office Base is London Television Centre. This is a hybrid role and the successful candidate will balance office working with home working

ABOUT BBC STUDIOS

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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 Eastenders, 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.

THE ROLE

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This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in shaping global finance transactional processes for Record to Report at BBC Studios.




In this role, you'll be accountable for defining and enhancing financial processes, ensuring data accuracy, efficiency, and compliance across the business. You'll oversee master data maintenance, ensuring alignment with target models, and work closely with teams to monitor end-to-end process performance, identifying opportunities for continuous improvement and standardisation.




You'll support the implementation of ICFR, helping deploy technical solutions, controls, and processes while ensuring that system designs meet business needs. Additionally, you'll play a crucial role in managing interactions with Outsourcers, acting as the key contact for third-party issues impacting local teams.

Key Responsibilities:

Process Standardisation & Governance - Drive consistency across R2R, collaborating with stakeholders, Outsourcers, and Global Process Owners (GPOs) to improve efficiency and compliance. Automation & Continuous Improvement - Support process re-engineering, system optimisation, and seamless implementation of ICFR, Centralisation of Journals, Blackline reconciliations, reporting, and act as Product Owner for SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) dashboards. Ensure timely and effective delivery of change requests. Audit & Compliance - Liaise with internal/external auditors, ensure balance sheet reconciliation quality, and oversee financial reporting controls. Stakeholder Collaboration - Work closely with Finance leaders, Technology teams, BPO teams, Divisional Finance, Global sales teams, Global purchasing teams, Group Treasury, LABA, and Talent Accounting, and wider BBC to align processes with business needs. Training & Documentation - Maintain process manuals, lead training initiatives, and manage Superuser teams to ensure best practices.






Scope & Impact:



Role is based in London with oversight across EMEA, ANZ, Asia, and Americas, reporting directly to the Global Process Owner. Monitor SLAs and KPIs with Outsourcers, ensuring service excellence. Influence and align cross-functional teams to drive process improvements.






Key Relationships:



Close partnership with Head of Internal Controls, Director of Financial Operations, and other Global Process Owners. Engaging with Global Sales, Purchasing, Treasury, Tax, Operations & Technology. Ad hoc support for Britbox International, Indies, BBCS Production, UKTV, and SPVs.

WHAT DOES IT TAKE?

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ESSENTIAL CRITERIA:

Knowledge of business and data analysis practice, tools and techniques such as: requirements engineering, structured analysis and design, process mapping and component business modelling, business process re-engineering and benefits mapping and realisation. Ability to simplify and translate complex problems, processes or projects into component parts and be able to explore them systematically. Effective communication skills, with an ability to influence and align a diverse group senior stakeholders; throughout the organisation in multiple locations. Experience of large ERP systems and associated processes (SAP ECC6 / S/4 Hana and BPC) within relevant process area and integration points with other process areas Demonstrable evidence of implementing process standardisation and improvement, with global roll-out Experience and extensive knowledge of business operations in a complex, global business, across multiple areas of finance and outsourced function Experience of control and compliance in a global finance environment Change management skillset to understand what changes have to be made and how to drive them at every level Project / Programme Management experience Strong Excel skills Able to prioritise and multi-task, engaging cross functional support to meet objectives to deadlines.

DESIRABLE CRITERIA:

Professional qualification or working towards (ACA, CIMA, ACCA, ICM or similar) is desirable Previous Controls & ICFR experience desirable

LIFE AT BBC STUDIOS

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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 here.




The BBC is committed to building a culturally diverse workforce, that represents the audiences we serve, and encourages applications from candidates from any background, especially people from diverse communities. Equity of opportunity is important to us, and we endeavour to make our processes equal, fair and meritocratic for everybody. More information on our D&I plan can be found here.




BBC Studios puts sustainability at the heart of everything we do both onscreen and offscreen, including delivering against the BBC Group's science-based Net Zero targets. More information on sustainability at BBC Studios can be found here.




We are proud to share that we are a Level 2 Disability Confident Employer and if you require any reasonable adjustments in order to apply please contact us on reasonable.adjustments@bbc.co.uk.

WHAT WILL YOU GAIN FROM WORKING AT BBC STUDIOS?

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 Parental leave for new parents, regardless of gender, of up to a year with 18 weeks fully paid A defined contribution pension scheme with employer contributions up to 10%; and life assurance (at 4 times annual salary), eligibility for discounted dental, health care, gym and much more through salary sacrifice Excellent career progression - access to courses, webinars, workshops and the opportunity to work in different areas of the organisation

NEXT STEPS

We appreciate your interest in this position and understand how important this opportunity is to you. Due to the high volume of interest we may need to close the application period earlier than anticipated. This step is necessary to ensure we can provide a high level of attention and service to all applicants. Thank you for your understanding.




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.

DISCLAIMER

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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.