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London, Greater London
Finance Manager, Business Partnering
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Job Description
Reporting to the Head of Finance with key responsibility for the quality and timeliness of the Company's internal reporting. Specifically, delivering high value reporting through all cycles with a particular focus on the reporting of the monthly results and the forecast, budget and strategic plan cycles. The role liaises extensively with senior management, publishers and managing editors on all aspects of business performance to ensure an excellent level of understanding of future and historical performance. The role requires the effective management of a large team of qualified and trainee accountants to produce key finance deliverables to support the business and management, with a particular focus on the improvement of processes and optimisation of team mix and structure. Business Partnering * Managing a team of eight accountants, four qualified and four trainees, including oversight of development and performance assessment through quarterly reviews. * Overseeing the financial management of 14 brands (including business services), including monthly performance reviews with publishers and managing editors of each brand driven by meaningful financial analysis. * Leading month end review meetings with senior management to provide effective and insightful financial information and assist with business management. * Deliver high quality, timely and meaningful reporting for submission to internal stakeholders including income statements and monthly rolling estimate forecast for submission to CN London HQ. * Co-ordination and review of submissions from multiple departments for Quarterly reporting to CN London HQ . * Oversight and ownership of financial deliverables including: Quarterly balance sheets, monthly events ledger, monthly Digital ledger, weekly revenue reports, declining spend/increasing spend analysis, client invoicing and payments to suppliers. * Assisting with ad hoc Salesforce queries and bonus grid calculations. Forecasting, budgeting and strategic planning * Preparation and co-ordination of the business' forecasts and 3 year strategic plan. * Leading the quarterly planning meeting and live forecasting meetings with publishers to understand and scrutinise their expectations for future performance of the brands. * Presenting and discussing underlying assumptions for the UK business' forecasts and strategic plan to senior management. * Support strategy director with ad hoc analysis on new business proposals to facilitate effective decision making. Other * Liaison with Head Office Finance team and UK Heads of Department. * Ad hoc project work. * Identifying and implementing improvements to the forecasting and reporting processes. * Identifying and implementing system improvements. * Support of the statutory accounts process.