Finance Business Partner

Hachette UK Limited; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private medical insurance

Generous pension schemes

Rent deposit loans

Cycle to Work scheme

Eye care vouchers

Wide-ranging training library

Development programmes (mentoring)

Up to 70% off book purchases

Job summary

Hachette UK Limited is seeking a Finance Business Partner to act as the financial, operational and strategic partner for the divisions within Hachette UK. You will deliver insights to non-financial colleagues, lead performance reviews, and support decision making across multiple departments.

The role requires a qualified accountant with strong Excel skills, experience communicating financial information to non-financial stakeholders, and a track record in a business-facing environment.

Qualifications

• Qualified accountant with proven experience in a business-facing role.
• Ability to communicate financial information to non-financial colleagues; strong organisational skills.

Responsibilities

• Partner with departments across HCG to assess financial impact of decisions.
• Lead reviews of title/genre/category performance and inform acquisition decisions.
• Produce monthly management packs for senior leadership and support month-end reporting.

Skills

Financial analysis

Excel

SAP

Education

Qualified accountant (CIMA/ACCA/ACA)

Tools

SAP

Job description

Who we are and what we do

About Hachette UK

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 library
• Development 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.

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