Finance Business Partner

Hodder & Stoughton; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 60,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private medical insurance

Generous pension schemes

Rent deposit loans

2 community days per year

Summer hours

Job summary

Hachette UK, based in London at Carmelite House, is seeking a qualified accountant to join the Finance team. You will act as a strategic partner, delivering financial insight to non-financial colleagues and supporting monthly close and reporting.

Reporting to the Finance Director for Hachette Children’s Group, the role covers performance reviews across titles/genres, budgeting and planning, and presenting outcomes to senior leadership.

Qualifications

• Qualified accountant with experience in a business-facing role.
• Strong organisational skills and ability to meet deadlines.
• Excellent Excel skills; comfortable presenting financial information.

Responsibilities

• Partner with finance and senior leadership to provide financial insights.
• Lead reviews of title/genre/category performance and acquisition decisions.
• Produce monthly management packs and ad hoc reports for senior leaders.
• Ensure timely month-end reporting and balance sheet reconciliations.

Skills

Qualified accountant

Communication skills

Excel skills

Education

Accounting qualification (CIMA/ACCA)

Tools

SAP

Excel

Job description

Return

Division

Hachette UK

Department

Finance

Location

Carmelite House, 50 Victoria Embankment, London, United Kingdom, EC4Y 0DZ

Salary

£50,000 - £60,000 dependent on experience (+bonus +benefits)

Contact type

Full Time Permanent

Publishing division

Hachette UK

Closing date

Tuesday, 20th October 2026

About Hachette UK

Who we are and what we do

Hachette UK is a creative powerhouse and the UK's second largest book publishing group. Our mission is to make it easy for everyone to discover new worlds of ideas, learning, entertainment and opportunity.

We're made up of 12 autonomous publishing divisions and over 60 imprints with a rich and diverse history and an incredible range of authors. We're also the market leader in e-books and publish a range of bestsellers in audio format, the fastest growing part of our business.

Our award-winning adult publishing divisions are Orion, which won Publisher of the Year at the 2021 British Book Awards; Little, Brown; John Murray Press; Hodder & Stoughton; Headline; Quercus; Octopus, Bookouture and Dialogue Books. They publish fiction and non-fiction in digital, audio and print format, from the world's best and most diverse authors, including Brit Bennett, Candice Carty-Williams, Martina Cole, Michael Connelly, John Grisham, Stephen King, Stieg Larsson, Nelson Mandela, Stephenie Meyer, Maggie O'Farrell, Delia Owens, Ian Rankin, J.K. Rowling, Colson Whitehead, and Malala Yousafzai. Hachette Children's Group publishes a wide and vibrant range of books for children across all age ranges, while Hachette Learning is a market leader in resources for both primary and secondary schools.

Hachette UK is part of Hachette Livre, the world's third largest trade and educational publisher. As well as our headquarters in Carmelite House, London, and our state-of-the-art book distribution centre in Didcot, Oxfordshire, we have recently opened five new offices in Manchester, Bristol, Sheffield, Newcastle, and Edinburgh. The UK region also includes offices in Australia, New Zealand, India, Singapore, the Caribbean, and Ireland.

It's an exciting time to join our business because the publishing market continues to grow and thrive. The UK remains the largest exporter of physical books in the world and book adaptations for film and TV are the foundation of the UK's creative industries.

What you’ll be doing

Reporting to the Hachette Children’s Group (HCG) Finance Director, this role is the financial, operational and strategic business partner for all departments within HCG, ensuring the financial impact of business decisions is properly assessed, monitored and reviewed. A key focus for the role is delivering financial information to non-financial colleagues in the division, in particular leading the reviews of title/genre/category performance, identifying learnings to improve future new title acquisition decision-making. The role is also responsible for producing monthly management packs for senior HCG leadership team as well as ad hoc reporting as required by the division. The role works closely with the Management Accounts team to ensure month-end reporting, balance sheet reconciliations and other standard reports produced by that team for HCG are accurate and timely

Who we are looking for

A qualified accountant with proven experience in a business-facing/commercial role and the demonstrable ability to communicate financial information to non financial colleagues. The successful candidate will be well organised, able to plan their own workload to consistently meet deadlines and to form strong working relationships with colleagues across a range of functions/departments. Attention to detail and strong excel skills are a must and previous experience of SAP and/or the publishing industry would be desirable. You will comfortable presenting information in person, in an accessible way, to larger groups of colleagues from time to time.

What we offer

Our staff are our greatest asset, and our benefits reflect this:

• 28 annual leave days per year, increases to 29 days after 2 years' service and goes up to 30 days after 5 years' (+ bank holidays)
• Private medical insurance
• Generous pension schemes
• Rent deposit loans
• 2 community days per year
• Summer hours (finishing at 1pm on Fridays during the summer months)
• Retail discounts through Hachette rewards
• Cycle to Work scheme
• Eye care vouchers
• Wide-ranging training libraryDevelopment programmes (including mentoring)
• Up to 70% off book purchases
• A charity bookshelf
• 12 Staff-led employee networks that are voluntary, including Gender Balance, Thrive, Pride, All Together, Wellbeing and religious networks
• Season ticket loans
• And much more!

The role will be based at our London office, Carmelite House, with a blend of in-office (3 days) and homeworking (2 days) per week.

Our commitment

Hachette employs people on the basis of their abilities. We aim to attract and develop talent from a base as broad as the world of readers we want to reach, with a wide and representative range of age, faith, disability, race, gender, sexuality and socio-economic, regional and cultural backgrounds.

If you are shortlisted and need us to make any adjustments to help you attend for interview, please let us know.

The Book Trade Charity offers financial support to people looking to enter the book trade but who may struggle to afford the costs of attending interviews and undertaking junior roles. For more information visit www.booktradeentrysupport.org