BBC Career Opportunities: Accounting Finance Manager Apprenticeship - Level 6 - Cardiff

Join us as an apprentice at the BBC to give yourself the opportunity to kick-start your career in a job you'll love. We’re committed to your skills and talent development. You’ll learn on-the-job, developing your knowledge and skills in an area that interests you, whilst working towards your apprenticeship qualification with one of our learning providers. 

The Accounting Finance Manager apprenticeship should be your next step if you’re aspiring to advance your career and further your knowledge, skills and experience in finance. This apprenticeship is for new and aspiring finance professionals.   

As well as studying for a recognised professional qualification with our training provider partner, you’ll also get first-hand understanding of how the world’s largest and best-known public service broadcaster manages its finances, keeps on top of its accounting and ensures that the content we make gives best value to our audiences. 

The BBC finance teams working across the BBC Group (including Public Sector Broadcasting and Studio Productions) are looking for dynamic, interested, enthusiastic and adaptable individuals to join our high performing teams.  Depending on the teams you join, you will gain experience in areas including:

• Programme and project accounting


• Capital investment and lease accounting


• Monthly actuals accounting and reporting


• Forecasting and annual budgeting


• Working with colleagues and stakeholders across the BBC


• Supporting our relationship with the external auditors NAO
   

We will make sure you get as many opportunities to develop in different areas, as possible.  You won’t just learn about finance, you’ll see how a large, creative and complex organisation operates; building valuable financial, analytical, problem-solving and stakeholder management skills along the way.

Most importantly, you’ll be supported throughout your journey. We are friendly, collaborative teams who are passionate about helping people learn and succeed. You’ll receive hands-on experience, guidance from experienced finance professionals and plenty of opportunities to develop your confidence and career.

If you’re curious, enthusiastic and ready to learn, this is a fantastic opportunity to start building your future in finance at the BBC.

Don’t leave yourself wondering “what if?” this could be your chance to be part of something exciting. See yourself thriving in this role? Just click ‘Apply Now’! 

You’ll create a candidate profile and answer a few questions - no CV or cover letter needed. 

If you're eligible, we’ll guide you through the next steps of the process and what to expect. 

You’ll need to live within a commutable distance of where this role is based. Interested in a different location? Check out our other adverts - but please only apply to one. 

The BBC recognises that you may need to relocate to a new location to take up a BBC Apprenticeship scheme. The cost of relocating can be a barrier for some applicants and where that is a barrier to participation, we want to help where we can. To help ensure our apprenticeship opportunities are accessible to people from a wide range of backgrounds, a limited number of relocation support awards are available each year for those who meet our financial eligibility criteria.  Relocation financial support is available for this role, subject to meeting the financial eligibility criteria. Further information will be shared with applicants during the recruitment process. Details on the wider support, initiatives and networks available at the BBC can be found on our careers site.

This is a fixed-term apprenticeship - your contract lasts for the duration of the scheme. Once you have completed your apprenticeship, you will be able to apply for any suitable open vacancies at the BBC or outside in the wider creative industry. You’ll be supported with career development, employability training, and networking opportunities to help you take your next step.

For apprenticeship opportunities, disabled applicants who choose to apply under the Disability Confident Scheme and who meet the minimum criteria for the role will normally be progressed to the next stage of the recruitment process. For most of our campaigns, this would be an online assessment designed to assess your skills, motivations and suitability for the role.  Further details can be found in the FAQs section of our careers site.