Facilities and Finance Coordinator

News UK; Greater London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading media company in the UK is seeking a finance team member focused on financial management and project administration. Responsibilities include managing budgets, raising purchase orders, and providing administrative support. The ideal candidate should have strong organisational skills and a passion for their work. This role offers a variety of employee benefits, including private medical insurance and generous holiday days.

Benefits

Maternity and paternity leave

Wide range of training available

Private medical insurance

Discounted gym memberships

Generous pension scheme

25 days holiday plus bank holidays

Qualifications

• Understanding of capital expenditure and operating budgets.
• Passionate about the work you do and embrace every opportunity.
• Principled, purposeful, and focused on delivering high-standard work.

Responsibilities

• Managing and tracking departmental budgets.
• Raising purchase orders and processing invoices.
• Providing contract administrative support to the team.
• Project administration.

Skills

Financial management and planning

Strong organisational skills

Microsoft Office

Job description

Job Description

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.

Day to day you will:

• Understanding of capital expenditure and operating budgets with financial forecasting and P&L Balance Sheets

Managing and tracking departmental budgets, flagging issues to the Property and Facilities Director and Senior Facilities Manager

Raising purchase orders, processing invoices for the Property and Facilities department. Liaising with suppliers and internal accounts department regarding payment dates and identifying and resolving issues

Provide contract administrative support to the Senior Facilities Manager and Property and Facilities Director and the wider team, including but not limited team diary management, general team administration support, meeting minutes, creating presentations, archiving and electronic filing on the ‘Shared Directory’ / Google Drive.

Project administration

What we are looking for from you:

• Financial management and planning

Microsoft Office

Strong organisational skills

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

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, TalkTV and Virgin Radio UK, and we have market-leading local radio stations across Ireland. Our world-famous brands provide news, analysis, opinion and entertainment to almost 40 million people each month. Spanning print and pixel, audio and video, events and experiences, our multiplatform 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 (;t=2s) 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%

25 days holiday , plus bank holidays and up to 4 volunteering days per year

We want to ensure that everyone we meet has the opportunity to perform to their best when applying for a role. Please let us know, at any stage, whether you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, and we will do our best to accommodate.