Finance Team Assistant

JOB DETAILS

JOB BAND: C

CONTRACT TYPE: Permanent, Full-time

DEPARTMENT: BBC Pensions and Benefits Centre

LOCATION: Cardiff – Hybrid

PROPOSED SALARY RANGE: £27,300 to £35,000 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

To play a key role in delivering an efficient, high‑impact pension finance service to the Trustees, while championing continuous growth in knowledge, productivity, and overall excellence.

This role offers the opportunity to get involved in a wide variety of accounting, payroll, and Excel‑based activities. You’ll help organise payments, capture and process transactions, carry out reconciliations, and prepare insightful reports — all contributing to a smooth, accurate, and energised finance operation.

WHY JOIN THE TEAM

As part of the BBC Pensions Finance team, you’ll join a small, supportive group where your ideas matter and your work has real impact on the long‑term financial wellbeing of nearly 50,000 Pension Scheme members.

We work collaboratively, learn from each other, and take pride in doing things properly — with the space to develop your expertise, broaden your skills, and shape how we work. You’ll have the chance to contribute to meaningful projects, grow professionally in a rewarding area of finance, and be part of a team that genuinely values balance, trust and continuous improvement.

Your Key Responsibilities And Impact

• Overseeing receipt and allocation of contributions (£50m a year) with related cash reconciliations and variance analyses
• Complete timely and accurate bank reconciliations, investigating discrepancies and ensuring all transactions are correctly recorded and resolved.
• Preparation of invoice payment runs;
• Assist the investment accountants in preparation of routine reporting
• Manage and monitor all bounced back payments, investigating root causes, liaising with internal teams, and ensuring corrective actions are completed promptly.
• Serve as a secondary payroll contact, able to perform essential payroll duties when required to maintain smooth operations during team absences.

Essential Criteria

YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

• An understanding of internal control protocols, including finance related segregation of duties within a complex organization
• Experience of working in a finance/finance administration department
• Excellent organisational skills with the ability to deal with tasks and enquires in an efficient and systematic way, maintaining accuracy and attention to detail, even when working to tight deadlines.
• An understanding of the importance of timely information and reporting without compromising quality.
• Flexible and pragmatic approach to supporting the wider operational environment.

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.

Before your start date, you may need to disclose any unspent convictions or police charges, in line with our Recruitment policy. This allows us to discuss any support you may need and assess any risks. Failure to disclose may result in the withdrawal of your offer.

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Redeployment

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.