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The opportunity

Reporting to the Finance & Commercial Director, during this 18month contract you will work closely with the Finance Team to build a story around moving the financial data along the maturity curve, automate data delivery and reporting, and to analyse commercial performance, with a view to supporting day to day decision making & future planning.

Your day-to-day

The focus for this role is to ensure greater visibility of financial information and supporting the need to analyse data in different ways to enable future planning and ultimately growth.

You’ll do this through:

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  Exposing and analysing key financial data, building out a clear picture of metrics.
• Building out clear and clean visualisations and reports to support stakeholders to understand the key drivers and levers of their KPIs.
• Working with stakeholders in Finance & the Data team to help define and develop the metrics that best enable us to understand the wins and opportunities within the business and bridge the knowledge gap between the teams
• Participate in knowledge sharing, coaching colleagues, and team members, playing a key role in driving a culture of continuous development.
• Data transformation : Streamlining and automating reporting
• Understanding and visualising data in a way synonymous with high functioning departments using the latest techniques to bring data to life to the various stakeholders.
• To support and ensure a smooth transition across reporting platforms

What you’ll bring

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  A financial reporting background with a strong understanding of financial reporting requirements
• Strong analytical skills, able to identify and interpret trends, improve financial reporting, and implement innovative solutions
• Experience with analytics and reporting with a focus on commercial and financial data
• Experience of Power BI/Data Visualization/Storytelling through data
• Collaborative approach and good relationship builder - with proven experience of stakeholder engagement.

Please apply with a CV & cover letter by midnight on Sunday 21st May, 1st interviews will take place w/c May 29th.

Salary: £40,000 - £45,5000 depending on how your skills and experience align to the role, plus benefits

Our creativity is inspired by different perspectives, so we want our culture to be one of belonging, where everyone feels welcome and where differences are celebrated.

As a Disability Confident Committed organisation, we're part of the offer an interview scheme. This is where disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for the role can opt in to get to the next recruitment stage. There may be some situations where volume of applicants means we can't take all eligible candidates to interview.

We want to make sure disabled applicants can be their best at each step of the recruitment journey. If you need adjustments during the application process, we encourage you to get in touch with us at http://[email protected]. Remember, you only need to share what you are comfortable to for us to support your adjustment request. Find out more about our approach here: http://www.penguinrandomhousecareers.co.uk/applying-for-roles-with-a-disability

We partner with The Book Trade Charity, who provide financial assistance for people looking to get into the publishing industry; you can find more information and talk directly here: https://btbs.org/grants

Please note, we are not able to accept agency CVs for this role. Any CVs sent speculatively will not be eligible for a fee.

Company: Penguin Books Limited

Country: United Kingdom

State/Region: London

City: London

Postal Code: SW11

Job ID: 259881