Finance Coordinator Salford, North West England, England

BBC

Full Time Salford, North West England, England 30800 - 56458 GBP ANNUAL Today

Job description

Job Introduction

To provide a proficient and professional payments service while maintaining a reliable control environment. This role ensures the integrity of user access to BBC Children in Need finance systems, ensuring compliance with BBC controls and policies.

Main Responsibilities

Bank Reconciliations

To download all electronic Bank statements and upload into Access Dimensions.

To process all physical receipts of cash, code to correct income source and bank.
To administer debtor receipts and GFM cheque income in Access Dimensions.
To journal all necessary cashbook transactions.
To allocate all transactions and provide a listing of un-posted items for review.
To formally reconcile all the bank statements for the Charity ensuring control accounts have been reviewed and the month end process has been adhered to.
To review all non-standard activity investigating and identifying the source of unusual entries, and to allocate all transactions posted in the accounting period.
To continually review processes for best practice.
Monitor and ensure that finance data protection rules are followed. Identify areas where processes can be improved and strengthened.

Legacy Donations

To manage Legacy donations by acknowledging communication, resolving queries from estates and escalating for decision making in accordance with guidelines.
To maintain schedule of legacies in process, forecasting anticipated income and deliverable date to support year end accruals and income forecasts, follow up outstanding income.
To journal and allocate Legacy and In Memory income in Access Dimensions and reconcile to legacy schedule.
Manage communication from solicitors regarding the due legacy payments.
Account for receipt of income and depositing physical legacy cheques into the bank.

Supplier Payments

To process priority payments limiting the number of ad hoc requirements where possible.
To process all payments in Access Dimensions in a timely manner.
To monitor the daily bank balances and make transfers of funds as necessary.
To account for un-presented cheques to include refunds and supplier payments.
To account for all fraudulent DD’s, follow up reimbursements with banks and reconcile.

Other Duties

To open and securely file finance related post. To maintain the filing system.

Performing ad hoc duties for other colleagues and provide cover when needed.
To liaise with CIN staff in other locations, BBC finance departments and External and Internal auditors regarding financial affairs when appropriate.
To deal with all role related enquiries including those through CiN Finance inbox.
To work on Appeal Night and other events to ensure smooth running of financial activity.

Are you the right candidate?

Good knowledge of excel.
Experience of working in a purchasing or procurement department.
Good verbal communication skills.
Able to work comfortably in a team and individually.
An understanding of system internal controls and segregation of duties.
An understanding of Data Protection legislation and its impact on access control.
Positive and helpful attitude.

About the BBC

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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.

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Package Description

Band: B
Contract type: Fixed Term
Location: Salford - Bridge House /Hybrid

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.