Job Introduction

This Finance HR Advisor role sits in the HR Operational Support Team. Working to the Senior HR Business Partner you will provide support for the outsourced HR services in relation to commercial and budgetary activity with a focus on generating purchase orders and validating billing data, spend reporting, analysis and stakeholder liaison to achieve accurate budget management and business assurance.

Main Responsibilities

• Raise purchase orders using SAP Finance system, validate billing data & approve payments;
• Facilitate internal cross-charging to devolved budgets;
• Maintain accurate & up to date budget reporting;
• Access Finance and People systems, entering data and ensuring data quality;
• Problem solve queries and issues, resolving and/or escalating queries to the relevant party;
• Analyse data/processes with self-assurance based on data and understanding of policy and process offering recommendations to support continuous improvements;
• Accurately maintain data ensuring confidentiality;
• Maintain knowledge and understanding of team and wider HR priorities and support workload where necessary contributing to a culture of service excellence.

Are you the right candidate?

The ideal candidate will have excellent organisational and time management skills whilst carrying out their work accurately with high attention to detail. Prior knowledge and working experience of finance systems and some experience of HR systems would be advantageous.

This role will require someone with great communication (verbal, written, listening) skills, who is able to work to a deadline, manage conflicting priorities and confident to ask for support when required. You should also have a strong customer focus and customer satisfaction ethic and feel empowered to go above and beyond to support our colleagues.

Able to innovate when dealing with problems you face in unique situations; you should feel confident to manage your workload and comfortable working alone, or in collaboration with fellow team members on joint projects or organisational needs.

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.

To find out more about Diversity and Inclusion at the BBC, please click here

Package Description

Band: B
Contract type: Continuing
Location: Birmingham - The Mailbox

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.