We are seeking an experienced FP&A professional to join our Group Finance Function, supporting the Journals FP&A Team in preparation and analysis of annual Society Accounts, Society Budgets, month end and Society payments.
Key responsibilities in this role will include:
- Perform FP&A activities including (but not limited to) reporting, budgeting, forecasting.
- Run Society Accounts through the excel accounting programme, ensuring the accounts reconcile and investigating any variances.
- Liaise directly with the Publisher to review the accounts and answering any queries the Publisher may have to enable accounts to be signed off.
- Analyse financial information to ensure that information is accurate, that provisions are financially sound and correctly allocated, investigate anomalies and provide explanations on variances that have occurred against budget.
- Raise contractual invoices that are needed for inclusion within the Annual Accounts.
- Raise payments as per Annual Accounts to external Societies and Editors in line with contractual deadlines.
- Support the FP&A team as needed to build 5YP
- Build, analyse and review Society Budgets
- Month End processes to be completed in a timely and accurate manner
- Review Trading account and investigate variances
We operate a hybrid working policy that requires a minimum of 2 days per week in the Oxford office.
About You
To be successful in this role, you will ideally have:
- Finance qualification or studying for a professional qualification or equivalent demonstrable experience
- Experience of problem solving and analysis techniques to define problems
- Commitment to continual personal professional development
- Good knowledge of finance tools (including excel) and technology awareness
- Initiative and ability to successfully implement new ideas, with drive to push through.
- Ability to clearly communicate compelling messages – verbal and written
We care about work/life balance here at OUP. With this in mind we offer 25 days’ holiday that rises with service, plus bank holidays and Christmas closure (3-days) and a 35-hour working week. We are open to discussing flexibility in respect to working patterns, dependent on role. We also have a great variety of active employee networks and societies.
We help make your money go further by contributing to your pension up to 12%, offering loans and savings schemes through our partnership with Salary Finance, in addition to travel to work schemes and access to a wide range of local discounts.
This role comes with the added benefit of a discretionary annual payment.
Please see our Rewards and Recognition page for more information.
We are committed to supporting diversity in our workforce, and ensuring an inclusive environment where all individuals can thrive. We seek to employ a workforce representative of the markets that we serve and encourage applications from all.
