Production Analyst

Our Finance Teams: 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.

Your role: As Production Analyst based in the Peterborough office you will be an essential part of the Corporate and Commercial Finance team reporting directly to the Senior Finance Manager Production & Logistics

Day to day:

• Completion of both weekly and monthly management accounts including disposal and sale of Newsprint

• Supporting production sites and paper mills in particular managing the Purchase order procedures to ensure the successful delivery of goods at all times.

• Processing of weekly invoices and credit notes relating to Newsprint ensuring goods receipt information is processed and recorded correctly

• Tracking budgeted spend vs actual spend by supplier

• Managing intercompany recharge accounts ensuring this is maintained monthly

• Monthly process of consignment stock in a timely manner

• Regular communication with the other Finance teams ensuring a close working relationship and effective communication at all times.

• Balance sheet management including the release of accruals and provisions in line with expectations

• Raising self bill invoices relating to 3rd party sales

• Processing production related invoices ensuring costs are recorded in the correct cost centres in a timely manner

• Support annual audit answering any queries relating to your areas of responsibility alongside managing relevant SOX controls

• Support other members of the production finance team as required providing cover where necessary

What we are looking for from you:

We want someone solution-oriented who really wants to make a difference with strong experience in communicating with finance and non-finance stakeholders. Some of the skills and experience you will need include:

• Part qualified and actively studying ACCA CIMA or the equivalent.

• Communicating effectively across a wide range of stakeholders including Directors Senior Managers and with all levels of staff in both Newsprinters and the wider Finance teams.

• Strong analytical skills and the ability to analyse and interpret data across multiple systems.

• SAP/TM1 experience would be beneficial

• Passionate about the work you do embracing every opportunity to do your best work

• Principled in the way you go about your role and the decisions you make

• Purposeful with a strong desire to achieve and deliver work to a high standard

• Proactively identifying opportunities for improvement simplification and efficiencies.

• Ability to be curious; both identifying and resolving issues.

• Some travel to the Broxbourne print site and London to meet with business stakeholders will be required

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 TalkTV and Virgin Radio UK and we have market-leading local radio 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 multiplatform brands are home to a plurality of opinion representing the diverse communities we serve. News UK is wholly owned by News Corp.

Life at News: At News UK our people are our heartbeat - they are the driving force behind our brands and we want 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. 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 individuals 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:

• 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.

• Private medical insurance covering pre-existing conditions

• Discounted gym memberships ClassPass at Home weekly virtual HIIT yoga and run club classes

• Bikes for Work scheme

• Access to wellbeing benefits such as physio/massage and counselling

We want to ensure that everyone we meet has the opportunity to perform to their best when interviewing. 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.