Finance Controls Specialist

Job Band
Salary: £48,000 - £53,000 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.
Location: Flexible - any BBC hub
Contract: Fixed Term Contract ending May 2025
Job Purpose
Finance Central department supports the BBC and its stakeholders with a risk-focussed approach to development and maintenance of its controls framework. Finance Central has a key role to play in enabling the BBC to achieve its strategic objectives by supporting performance management, governance & risk management and by driving effective decision making. Specifically, Finance is required to provide a robust control environment that reduces reputational, security and data risks that could potentially lead to errors, inappropriate or fraudulent transactions and activities.
The Finance Controls Specialist is responsible for leading BBC UK SOX compliancy across the organization whilst ensuring that the BBC high governance standards are met.
Key Responsibilities and Accountabilities
Raise awareness of the Internal control framework (ICF), including the requirements for each of the components of the framework, and identification of areas in need of improvement and propose mitigation measures.
Support the Company's annual assessment of internal controls as a second line defence mechanism.
Perform on-site operational and financial reviews/audits, which includes the testing of both SOX and non-SOX internal controls and business related processes.
Provide expert guidance and support to 1st defence line management team on the implementation and assessment of ICF, ensure that all internal controls are performed adequately.
Act as a primary point of contact for liaison between Finance and internal and external parties in relation to risk and compliance matters, including the Finance outsource service provider, internal and external audit, Information Security.
Provide risk management and controls subject matter expertise on finance projects and in response to ad-hoc requests from finance and operations teams.
Advise the Finance Senior Leadership Team and broader Finance on the requirements for an effective risk management process and drive the adoption of best practice.
Act as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) Representative for Finance with responsibilities including GDPR incident reporting, monitoring of compliance with training requirements, periodic compliance reporting and acting as a central point of liaison in Finance for GDPR queries.
Be in charge of BU risk management within BBC, by identifying strategic risks in Finance activities designing the respective mitigated controls and updating the Finance Central Risk register bi-annually.
Knowledge, Skills, Training & Experience
We are looking for a fully qualified Accountant (e.g. ACCA, ACA, CIMA, or equivalent qualification) with relevant Audit and Controls experience. This includes someone with demonstrable evidence of developing, implementing and monitoring financial controls, presenting financial information and policy to very senior and non-finance colleagues, and experience of fraud investigation and GDPR/any data protection and controls.
For all queries in regards to the role, please feel free to contact Martyn Jarvis ()
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