Your role: As Finance Manager – Advertising your role will be an essential part of the Peterborough Management Accounting team, reporting into the Senior Finance Manager (SFM) - Advertising and working closely with the Commercial finance Team in London.
This role will act as the critical operational and strategic bridge between our offshore delivery partner (Genpact) and the onshore business reporting teams. This role ensures financial accuracy, drives robust SOX compliance, and partners closely with commercial units.
Following the implementation of S/4 Hana, a core focus of this role will be driving process improvements, simplification, and automation across key financial workflows. Additionally, this position provides direct deputy support and coverage to the SFM - Advertising.
This is a 12-month fixed term contract.
Key Responsibilities:
Act as the main onshore escalation point for Genpact, actively supporting them with weekly reporting queries and challenging any anomalies.
Manage Stakeholder communication, the main point of contact for the London based Commercial teams, managing adhoc queries and acting as the bridge between Genpacts processing and the business reporting requirements.
Own the Solutions Revenue workstream, maintaining the Revenue tracker and ensuring Revenue Attribution Plan (RAP) sheet processing is up to date.
Support month end for Print and Digital workstreams, ensuring a smooth transition to Genpact and supporting the offshore team where required.
Ownership of SOX controls, ensuring tasks are performed accurately, documented correctly, and handling audit requests.
Champion process improvements, simplification, and automation initiatives, specifically targeting Advertising Travel workflows, month-end reconciliations, and TM1 integration and leveraging AI Capabilities.
Day to day you will:
Review weekly reporting and flash reports prepared by the offshore team, to ensure accuracy ahead of distribution to the Commercial teams.
Proactively review and analyse aging balance sheet balances and highlight risks and ops to SFM.
Own and maintain the solutions tracker, ensuring all revenue is recorded correctly and recognised in the correct weekly period.
Ensure the offshore team are processing RAP sheets correctly and give guidance on complex campaigns.
Monitor and maintain the Advertising Inbox ensuring all RAP sheets have been processed and all queries answered in a timely manner.
Support the offshore team with month end, understand and challenge PLVARS, and flag anything material to the SFM.
Understand Advertising contras and ensure they are accounted for correctly.
Support the offshore team in liaising with Travel and Events commercial teams and vice versa, to ensure smooth communication
Understand all Advertising Sox processes to ensure they are followed; challenge and highlight to the Senior Finance Manager if any instances where they are not being followed.
Being main point of contact for Advertising SOX and Audit requests, ensuring supporting documentation is provided by Genpact
Assist the SFM with adhoc queries and provide cover when required.
What we're looking for from you:
ACA/ACCA/CIMA qualified or equivalent
Effective and clear communications skills, to both finance and non-finance stakeholders
Capable of understanding complex revenue campaigns and supporting the offshore team to account for them correctly.
Drive and enthusiasm to develop the role and add value by driving continuous process improvement.
Capable of flexibility and working with ambiguity, willing to take initiative without guidance
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.
At News UK, we embrace a hybrid work model, currently requiring a minimum of three days per week in the office. This approach fosters collaboration, innovation, and team spirit within our workspace. Certain roles may necessitate additional in-office days; please discuss this with your recruiter for specific requirements.
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 the Apprentice Society.
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 and up to 4 volunteering days per year
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 [email protected] to discuss how we can support you to perform at your best.
