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As a Newsprinters Accountant your role will be an essential part of the Newsprinters finance team, reporting directly into the Newsprinters Senior Finance Manager and based in the Peterborough office.

Day to day you will:

• Input into the weekly reporting process to ensure accuracy and identify areas for simplification and efficiency

• Ensure all balance sheet reconciliations are completed and understood and ensure accurate commentary is provided

• Review and completion of month end submissions

• Ownership of Budget and Outlook processes for Newsprinters revenue and costs

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

• Effective business partnering across the sites to connect with stakeholders

• Provide support/cover to the wider team, including Newsprinters projects and supply chain initiatives.

What we’re looking for from you:

We’re looking for someone ACA/ACCA/CIMA qualified or equivalent with relevant work experience. Some of the skills you will need include:

• Proactively identifying opportunities for improvement, simplification and efficiencies

• Ability to be curious – both identify and resolve issues

• Communicating effectively across a wide range of stakeholders including Directors and senior managers and with all levels of staff in both Newsprinters and the wider finance teams.

What's in it for you?

• You will have the opportunity to be an integral part of the Newsprinters finance team

• You will have the opportunity to improve and add value to a dynamic, constantly evolving part of the business

• You will obtain exposure to senior stakeholders across the business

• you will have the opportunity to take full responsibility for Management Accounting processes around Press centres revenue and costs.

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, talkRADIO and Virgin Radio, and we have market-leading local radio stations across Ireland. In 2022 we launched TalkTV, a major new TV channel available to everyone across the UK, delivering a schedule of news, current affairs, entertainment and sport. Our world-famous brands provide news, analysis, opinion and entertainment to almost 40 million people each month. Spanning digital and print, audio and video, events and experiences, our brands are home to a plurality of opinion, representing the diverse communities we serve. News UK is wholly owned by News Corp.

Life at NewsAt News UK some of us work flexibly, in many different ways. We encourage you to talk to us about the flexibility you need. We can’t promise to offer exactly what you want, but do provide multiple flexible working options.

We champion diversity and inclusion, we strive to maximise and encourage every individual’s potential and ensure everyone feels valued. We support this through our Diversity Board, D&I strategy & training, creating more diverse content and our intern and apprenticeship programmes. We also have 8 employee-led networks; Cultural Diversity, News is Out, GenZ, Sustainability Champions, News for Parents, Women in Tech, News UK Christian Fellowship and we are awaiting the launch of our Women’s Steering Group.

We take pride in looking after our amazing talent at News UK supporting the Health and Wellbeing of our staff. We offer private medical insurance covering pre-existing conditions, discounted gym memberships, ClassPass at Home, weekly virtual HIIT, yoga and run club classes, and a ‘Bikes for Work’ scheme, as well as offering opportunities for physio/massage, counselling and legal support.

In addition we also offer:

• A generous pension scheme with employer contributions of up to 5%;

• 25 days holiday and up to 4 volunteering days per year;

• 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.

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