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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.

This role is within the News UK Finance team, and is based in Peterborough with regular interaction with our Head Office in London.

Your role:

Your role will be an essential part of the Peterborough Management Accounting team, reporting directly into the Senior Finance Manager – Sales, Marketing & Editorial. This is a new role and is therefore a great opportunity for someone to implement new processes, build new reporting and really make a difference!

You will be responsible for:

• Weekly and monthly reporting of TV direct and overheads costs including headcount reporting

• Variance analysis against budget and forecast

• Budgeting and forecasting process across all cost bases, including input into relevant presentations and supporting the Head of Finance Talk TV

• Creation and preparation of weekly and monthly spend reports

• Balance sheet reconciliations and analysis for all TV Cost accounts

• Creation and implementing new processes to include building new TV reporting cubes.

  
  

Day to day you will:

• Complete TV weekly cost reporting across content, transmission, marketing and overheads

• Consistently review the weekly reporting process to identify areas for improvement and efficiency

• Support the Head of Finance, Talk TV in completing the weekly broadcasting reporting pack, identifying opportunities to simplify the process

• Ensuring TV costs are reconciled between trackers, SAP and TM1

• Ensure all balance sheet reconciliations are completed on a timely basis and understood, review submissions and ensure that commentary is provided to the business

• Review and completion of month end submissions to deadline

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

• Regular interaction with London Finance team and business stakeholders
  

What we’re looking for from you:

We’re looking for someone qualified or in the final stages of qualification with relevant work experience. We want someone who really wants to make a difference. Some of the skills you will need include:

• Identifying risks across all areas to deep dive and problem solve as required, flagging any issues on a timely basis

• Proactively identifying opportunities for improvement, simplification and efficiencies

• Enthusiasm and curiosity to ask questions and improve processes

• A good team player with the ability to communicate effectively across a wide range of stakeholders including Heads of Finance, Finance Directors and the marketing business stakeholders

• Effectively prioritising and identifying key focus areas

• Ability to build and maintain effective working relationships with all finance and non-finance stakeholders

• Proactive and willing to take initiative without guidance

Life at News: At News UK we believe our people are our heartbeat - they are the driving force behind our brands and we want the ways we work to enable people to thrive. Some of us work flexibly, in many different ways. We encourage you to talk to us about the flexibility you would like. We can’t promise to offer exactly what you want, but do provide multiple flexible working options. Many of us work in a hybrid way between one of the News UK & Ireland offices and remotely.

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.