Deputy Managing Editor - Finance (6 month mat cover - to start mid October)

The Telegraph; London; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading media organization seeks a Deputy Managing Editor - Finance for a 6-month maternity cover starting mid-October. This role focuses on ensuring effective financial processes, collaborating with editorial and finance departments, and optimizing budget performance while upholding high editorial standards. The ideal candidate will bring strong financial acumen, project management experience, and a track record of delivering results.

Benefits

Medical cover

Parental leave (6 months fully paid maternity leave)

Flexible benefits

Qualifications

• Strong financial background with proven understanding of budgets and payments.
• Experience of managing and implementing projects and change initiatives.
• Highly developed advocacy, influencing, and negotiating skills.

Responsibilities

• Manage payments, EIS, and expenses process.
• Support in budget planning and compliance work.
• Develop an operations team, fostering a positive culture.

Skills

Financial background

Interpersonal skills

Attention to detail

Project management

Negotiating skills

Job description

Deputy Managing Editor - Finance (6 month mat cover - to start mid October)

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• Working in the Managing Editor's team ensuring the smooth running of the editorial function of the Telegraph
• Primary purpose is to concentrate on financial elements of the team's work. This will include responsibility for drawing up policies and ensuring that they are adhered to, making sure payment systems are smooth and being the primary contact between the editorial floor and the finance department
• This will include ensuring that financial information that comes from editorial desks is consistent and timely, working closely with the finance department's editorial team.
• Maximising editorial budget effectiveness and efficiency with continuous analysis of financial performance.
• Ensuring fair value is derived for editorial contracts
• Interrogating how departments spend their budgets and ensuring that the company is serving optimal outcomes for money invested.
• This role will be due to start in mid October 2025 and is a full time office based role in Victoria London.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage payments, EIS and expenses process and authorising payments as required.
• Identify systems improvement and work with tech to improve our business systems when possible.
• Manage and keep up Delegations of Authority in Editorial
• Work with the finance department to ensure feedback to heads of department and support in monitoring their spend
• Support in budget planning.
• Monitor expenses and ensure that policy is adhered to. From time to time revising expenses policy in conjunction with the finance department
• Ensuring that processes are in place to ensure travel and expenses are secured at fair value.
• Monitor delivery against contracts and ensure fair value is secured and is considered before contract renewal
• Developing a 12-person operations team, embedding high standards of administrative support and fostering a positive, engaged culture, and ensuring information is provided in a timely manner
• Work with finance to train Head of Departments and desk managers have training in financial management
• Identify and implement operational efficiencies and cost savings where relevant
• Responsibility for contractual management and appropriate engagement of service providers and contributors (e.g. retainers, freelancers and casual workforce)
• Assist in compliance work across editorial, and working across departments to ensure policies are up to date and are adhered to, and that training is delivered

Key Skills

• Strong financial background with proven understanding of budgets and payments.
• Accomplished interpersonal skills with the ability to influence stakeholders and broader colleagues in a journalistic environment
• Attention to detail, ordered approach to work, clear documentation of processes
• Open communicator, able to work on own initiative but also refer decisions or relay information appropriately.
• Proven track record of delivery against objectives
• Strong team player, able to work in cross-disciplinary and cross-departmental teams.
• Experience of managing and implementing projects and change initiatives
• Ability to work to challenging deadlines, changing priorities and comfortable with ambiguity
• Highly developed advocacy, influencing and negotiating skills
• Resilient and able to stand by decisions when necessary.

The nature of our industry means life at the Telegraph Media Group is fast-paced, demanding, and interesting. We also want it to be rewarding for everyone who works here by creating a suite of benefits that contribute to lifestyle choices and leisure activities. From dynamic working opportunities, medical cover, and parental leave (six months fully paid maternity leave and enhanced paternity/partner leave), to life assurance and season ticket loans, you can choose from a range of flexible benefits, designed to support your lifestyle and help you achieve a healthy work-life balance.

Training and development

With support from your manager and colleagues, you'll also have access to a variety of training and development opportunities through The Academy. Covering a range of personal and professional skills, our courses enable you to develop an enjoyable and rewarding career.

Our commitment to inclusion

At Telegraph Media Group, we foster a diverse and inclusive workplace and we are committed to building a team that reflects a wide variety of skills, perspectives and backgrounds. We believe in equality of opportunity and welcome candidates from all backgrounds, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief.

We are proud to be a Level 3 Disability Confident Leader as part of the government's Disability Confident Scheme. If you are disabled or have a long-term health condition and would like support in applying for any of our roles or if you require any reasonable adjustments in the recruitment process with us, please make us aware.

To find out more about Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging at Telegraph Media Group, and for more information on our purpose, beliefs, and people values, please visit our website.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Not Applicable

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Marketing, Public Relations, and Writing/Editing

• Industries

  Technology, Information and Internet

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