Shared Service Manager

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Job Description

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.

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

• Performing Payroll sign off's (approx. 13 per month)
• Preparation of monthly dashboards for Shared Services
• Preparation of monthly reporting across Shared Services
• Preparation of Payment Terms reporting for review by the Head of Finance Shared Services
• Shared Service journal and Miscellaneous payment approvals
• Review and approval of Accounts Payable/Contributor Payment Proposals
• Preparation of Cashflow Target documentation for Treasury
• Proactive monitoring and management of DPO/DSO across Shared Services. Investigating root causes of any issues and highlighting to the Head of Finance Shared Services.
• Regular review of the aged creditors/debtors and blocked documents reports highlighting areas of concern to the relevant business stakeholder
• Performance of pre-billing checks for Wholesalers

• Review and sign off:
  • End of Day Print figures
  • Vouchers
  • Weekly Wholesale Billing
  • Weekly Colour and Supplements print figures
  • Day of Issue Supply reconciliation (chargeables reporting)
  • Pre Billing Amendment and Pricing Reports
  • 3rd Party End of Day Supply Levels
  • Promotional Activities
  • Ad Hoc Credits and Debits
  • Waste

• Escalation of BAU issues
• Mailbox Supervision
• Team Support
• Technical Issues Support

Key Skills

• Knowledge of SAP
• Good knowledge of Accounts Payable/Accounts Receivable Practises and procedures
• Proven leadership skills
• Strong Excel skills
• Excellent communication skills
• Flexible, Adaptable and Proactive
• Excellent organisational and prioritisation skills
• Excellent interpersonal and customer service skills.

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
• Tenacious and willing to challenge at all levels
• Curious
• Drive and enthusiasm to develop the role and realise process efficiency

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].