Finance Analyst - Production

Location:

Peterborough

Department:

Finance

Salary Details:

Not Specified

Advertising End Date:

24 May 2024

Job Description

Your role: AsProduction Analystyour role will be an essential part of the Newsprinters Finance team, reporting directly into theSenior Finance Manager – Production & Logistics.

Day to day you will:

• Calculation of weekly and monthly production costs and variance reporting for External Print, Insertion & Packaging, Ink & Plates.

• Monthly reporting of Publishing Operations overheads.

• Preparing the budget and forecast for production costs including Ink, Plates, External Printing and Insertion and Packaging for News UK Titles.

• Preparing the budget and forecast for Publishing Operations overhead costs and headcount.

• Working with the Head of Magazine Publishing and Publishing Director to ensure magazine production costs are calculated correctly.

• Regular communication with the Publishing Operations Department to ensure accurate reporting of overhead costs.

• Regular communication with the other Finance teams; ensuring a close working relationship and effective communication at all times.

• Reconciliation of balance sheet accounts and timely resolution of queries.

• Regular review of External Printing in conjunction with contracts.

• Flagging any risks or opportunities.

• Some travel to London to meet with business stakeholders.

What we are looking for from you:

• Part qualified and actively studying ACCA, CIMA or the equivalent.

• Communicating effectively across a wide range of stakeholders including Directors, Senior Managers and with all levels of staff

• Strong analytical skills and the ability to analyse and interpret data across multiple systems.

• SAP/TM1 experience would be beneficial

Key Behaviours

• 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.

• Proactively identifying opportunities for improvement, simplification and efficiencies.

• Ability to be curious; both identifying and resolving issues.

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 ourDiversity, Equity and Inclusion Strategy (https://www.news.co.uk/more-than-the-news/diversity-inclusion/) , 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 have12 employee led networks and groups (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMCi-KiMlL4&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.