Senior Finance Manager

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Job Description

Senior Finance Manager

Our Finance Teams: Our Finance team has a large part to play in the success of our business. We are based across a few locations, but operate as one team, and work together to create a positive, productive and highly efficient finance department within News UK.

Role Objectives

• Understand and ensure accuracy of weekly and month end reporting across:
  • Subscription and circulation revenue
  • Marketing costs and brand extensions
  • Editorial costs
• Review and manage risk on the balance sheet reconciliations for all relevant accounts
• Be an active and integral participant in an company-wide revenue projects
• Ad-hoc queries and support to the team in London as required
• Regular communication with the relevant Finance Directors and Heads of Finance
• Regular communication with Subscriptions Technology team to ensure understanding of subscriptions model and technology platforms
• Managing continuous improvement across the team
• Developing team (2 direct and 2 indirect reports) and providing support where necessary

Key Skills

We're looking for someone qualified with comprehensive post qualified and management experience. We want someone who really wants to make a difference. Some of the skills you will need include:

• Total ownership of your role, including not just the work but also team development and stakeholder relationships
• Identifying and managing risks across all areas to deep dive and problem solve as required, raising any issues on a timely basis
• Deep dive into key areas of responsibility in order to understand key drivers including working with the technology and subscriptions teams
• Proactively identifying opportunities for improvement, simplification and efficiencies
• Enthusiasm and curiosity to ask questions and improve processes
• Motivating, driving and developing your team to achieve their best
• Communicating relevant information effectively across a wide range of stakeholders including Heads of Finance, Finance Directors and non-finance personnel.
• Effectively prioritising and identifying key focus areas
• Proactively identifying risks and opportunities and flagging these as soon as possible to the relevant stakeholders
• Support and challenge the team to ensure reporting output is accurate and they understand key risks associated with their areas of responsibility
• Develop team so that they each own and become experts in their areas of responsibility
• Have a strong technical accounting background in order to manage the revenue recognition process effectively
• Ensure balance sheet reconciliations are prepared and key areas of risk are being identified and actively followed up

Key Behaviours

• Passionate about the work you do, embracing every opportunity to do your best work
• Principled in the way you go about your role and the decisions you make
• Purposeful with a strong desire to achieve and deliver work to a high standard
• Take initiative by raising an risks or opportunities to relevant stakeholder at the earliest opportunity
• Be curious in order to understand the key drivers for P&L and balance sheet managing risks accordingly
• Building and maintaining relationships with various stakeholders and team members
• Willingness to challenge existing practice and implement change
• Ability to convey relevant information accurately and on a timely basis to all stakeholders

We are News UK: One of the leading media businesses in the UK and Ireland, our newsbrands include The Times, The Sunday Times, The Sun, The Sun on Sunday and The TLS. Our national broadcast brands include talkSPORT, Times Radio, talkRADIO and Virgin Radio UK, and we have market-leading local radio stations across Ireland. In 2022 we launched TalkTV, a major new TV channel available to everyone across the UK, delivering a schedule of news, current affairs, entertainment and sport, with Piers Morgan in a primetime evening show. Our world-famous brands provide news, analysis, opinion and entertainment to almost 40 million people each month. Spanning digital and print, audio and video, events and experiences, our brands are home to a plurality of opinion, representing the diverse communities we serve. News UK is wholly owned by News Corp.

Life at News

Driven by passion, guided by principles and acting with purpose. We represent, reflect and reach the nation, telling the stories that matter. We inform our audiences so that they can make decisions based on trusted information.

To do this, we believe our employees must represent different backgrounds, perspectives and experiences. We strive to maximise and encourage every individual's potential and ensure everyone feels valued. We support this through our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Strategy, which focuses on three main priorities - attracting talent from a wider, more representative pool, developing equity programmes to drive better representation in our leadership, and ensuring diversity and inclusivity in our workforce as well as the journalism and content we produce. We also currently have 12 employee led networks and groups that support our strategy and connect like minded employees socially.

Benefits

Some of our benefits include:

• Maternity leave up to 18 weeks full basic salary & paternity leave up to 2 weeks
• Wide range of training available, plus full LinkedIn Learning access
• Private medical insurance including coverage for pre-existing conditions
• Discounted gym memberships, free ClassPass at Home, weekly virtual yoga classes
• 'Bikes for Work' and 'Electric Car' scheme
• Up to 60% discount on Harper Collins books
• Access to exclusive events and competitions with exciting brands such as talkSPORT, Virgin Radio UK & The Times. Weekly virtual panel chats with top journalists and celebrities
• Access to wellbeing benefits such as EAP, physio/massage and counselling
• A generous pension scheme with employer contributions of up to 5%
• 30 days holiday, plus bank holidays and up to 4 volunteering days per year

We want to ensure that everyone has the opportunity to perform to their best when applying for a role. If you would like to receive any information in a different way or for us to do anything differently to support you apply for any of our roles please contact us on [email protected].