Junior Finance Manager - Title Overheads

NewsKit; Peterborough; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private medical insurance

Pension scheme with employer contrib.

Training and LinkedIn Learning access

25 days holiday + bank holidays

Job summary

News UK in Peterborough seeks a management accounting professional to own overhead costs across NGN and TML, reporting to the Senior Finance Manager - Shared Costs. You will deliver monthly reports to finance and non-finance stakeholders, and help prepare budgets and forecasts for business areas.

You will coordinate with the onshore Finance team and Genpact to ensure clear specifications and timely deliverables.

Qualifications

• Part-qualified accountant actively studying and progressing toward a recognised qualification.
• Experience in budgeting and forecasting with stakeholder exposure.
• Commercially aware with strong accounting fundamentals.
• Experience collaborating with internal and external stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Own weekly and monthly overhead reporting for NGN & TML across News UK.
• Maintain balance sheet reconciliations and review offshore inputs.
• Prepare budgets/forecasts and present to Directors and Execs.
• Monitor headcount and rolling forecast updates.
• Collaborate with cost areas to ensure coherence and drive efficiency.
• Oversee TM1-based setup and group reporting processes.
• Support other overhead areas and drive process improvements.

Skills

Part-qualified accountant

Budgeting & forecasting

Stakeholder management

Communication with finance & non-fin

Strong accounting skills

Team development

Interest in finance automation & AI

Education

ACCA/CIMA in progress

Tools

TM1

Job description

Job Description

Your Role:

Your role will be an essential part of the Peterborough Management Accounting team, reporting directly to the Senior Finance Manager - Shared Costs.

This is a varied role accounting for Title overhead costs across News UK. You will be responsible for and have a full ownership and understanding of all areas.

You will be required to produce monthly reports for non finance and finance stakeholders, identifying risks and opportunities and influencing decisions. You will work with stakeholders to prepare budget and forecasts for your business areas as well as assisting the Senior Finance Manager with ad-hoc reporting and analysis. You will work closely with the onshore News UK Finance team and interact with the offshore third party provider, Genpact, ensuring clear specifications for work and reviewing deliverables.

Day to Day you will:

• Ownership of weekly and monthly results submissions for all NGN & TML Overheads including commentary to Finance Directors and monthly results meetings with stakeholders. Reviewing commentary to weeklies and forecasts as prepared by the offshore team.
• Ownership of all balance sheet recs, including analysis, highlighting risks/opportunities and Blackline sign off reviewing reconciliation prepared by the offshore team.
• Preparation, submission and delivery of Budget and forecast outlooks to FD’s and Execs, working closely with the offshore team to ensure that Budget and Forecasts
• Review of monthly headcount positions
• Position management, including rolling forecast management, proactively identifying risks and opportunities, and long term plan submission
• Work closely with other cost areas to ensure coherence between the teams
• TM1 management of weekly set up process, and submission of results to Group Reporting cubes
• TM1 management of forecast set up process for all of the Shared Cost and Editorial areas
• Continuous review of financial information to ensure it is appropriate and relevant, as well recommending and implementing best work practices/
• Support & cover other overhead areas as required

What we're looking for from you:

• Part-qualified accountant and actively studying
• Experience of compiling budgets and forecasts
• Commercially aware coupled with strong accounting skills
• Experience of stakeholder management
• Development of team to ensure full engagement across relevant stakeholders, enabling influence over business decision making
• TM1 knowledge preferable

• Effective and clear communications skills, to communicate with finance and non-finance stakeholders
• Drive and enthusiasm to develop the role and realise process efficiency
• Ability to build and maintain effective working relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
• Interest in Finance automation & AI, how these can be integrated into processes/providing management information
• A team player, who is able to motivate the team and work to achieving common goals
• Capable of flexibility and working with ambiguity
• Proactive, organised and ability to effectively prioritise

News UK is 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 and Virgin Radio UK, and we have market-leading local 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 multi-format brands are home to a plurality of opinion, representing the diverse communities we serve. Driven by passion, guided by principles and acting with purpose, we exist to promote a fair society, freedom of speech and a little bit of fun. Rethinking continually the business of storytelling, we represent, reflect and reach the nation, telling the stories that matter.

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.

We represent, reflect and reach the nation, telling the stories that matter most. To ensure these stories resonate with as broad an audience as possible, it is essential that our organisation reflects the diversity of the people we reach. Whether through age, gender, ethnicity, disability, social class or sexuality, we are committed to representing the rich variety of voices that make up our society. And we champion a culture where everyone has the opportunity to contribute and thrive as we continue to innovate and drive long term sustainable growth. This is done through our Diversity Strategy.

At News UK, we take pride in our exceptional employee-led networks that bring together individuals with shared interests and create a vibrant sense of community. We believe our networks play a vital role in fostering a collaborative and supportive work culture at News UK. Groups that we support include the African & Caribbean Network, Parents and Carers, and LGBTQ+ group News Is Out, and Next Gen.

Benefits

Some of our benefits include:

• Private medical insurance including coverage for pre-existing conditions
• Discounted gym memberships, free ClassPass at Home, weekly in person/ virtual exercise classes
• ‘Bikes for Work’ and ‘Electric Car’ scheme
• Up to 60% discount on Harper Collins books
• Maternity leave up to 18 weeks full basic salary & paternity leave up to 2 weeks
• 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%
• Wide range of training available, plus full LinkedIn Learning access
• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays, as well as an extra anniversary day off
• Up to 3 paid volunteering days per year to support causes you care about

We are committed to providing an inclusive recruitment process. If you require reasonable adjustments due to a disability or health condition at any stage of your application or interview, please let us know. You can contact us at [e-mail] to discuss how we can support you to perform at your best.