Finance Analyst - Sun Publishing

Our Finance team has a large part to play in the success of our business. We are based across a few locations, but operate as one team, and work together to create a positive, productive and highly efficient finance department within News UK.

Day to Day you will:

• Work across the heart of the Sun working across our Publishing areas including Editorial, Marketing, Paid Sales and Membership.
• Report and provide support to the Finance Manager.
• Analyse results and produce weekly and monthly reports of relevant costs and KPIs.
• Work with the Finance manager this role will be responsible for the loading of monthly and quarterly budgets and forecasts.
• Review results and trends and produce Weekly and Monthly reporting of relevant costs and KPIs including costs of Editorial departments.
• Run the Pagination process for The Sun at forecasts and report on a weekly basis.
• Work closely with the team responsible in Peterborough to ensure costs are recorded accurately.
• Challenge assumptions to ensure accuracy and identify risks and opportunities.
• Continue to look for efficiency and better ways to report KPIs.
• Ad hoc support of the Finance Manager, Head of Finance, The Sun, and Finance Director, The Sun.

What we are looking for from you:

• Fully Qualified Accountant with a number of years PQE.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to work effectively with multiple areas.
• Proactive, problem solving, ‘can do’ attitude to work with multiple stakeholders of varying finance knowledge.
• Good interpersonal skills and the ability to build relationships.
• Media / digital marketing experience helpful, not essential.
• Strong excel skills (experience with TM1 beneficial but not essential).

We offer a flexible working arrangement where employees are expected to be in the office a minimum of three days per week. For the remaining two days, there is the option to work remotely if desired.

At News UK our people are our heartbeat - they are the driving force behind our brands and we want to enable people to thrive. 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 11 employee-led networks. We take pride in looking after our amazing talent at News UK supporting the Health and Wellbeing of our staff.

Some of what we offer includes:

• 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 covering pre-existing conditions.
• Discounted gym memberships, ClassPass at Home, weekly virtual HIIT, yoga and run club classes.
• ‘Bikes for Work’ and ‘Electric Car’ scheme.
• 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.

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.