Job Description

We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Finance Analyst to join Penguin Random House Finance team on a 12 month fixed term contract (could be potential secondment opportunity).

As a Senior Finance Analyst, you will be the key finance support for the Rights team, this will include month end, quarterly reporting, budgets and forecasts and reporting on the Rights overhead cost centres.

You will analyse the performance of the revenue generated by the Rights team, including analysis at a divisional and company level and at title and author level.

You will prepare robust analysis on authors, titles, or markets to aid decision making within the Rights teams and Publishing houses, including all revenue and costs associated with that area.

Reporting into the Finance and Commercial Director of Publishing, you will be an excellent communicator across the business and be able to convey financial information to stakeholders outside of finance.

We are looking for someone who can work effectively and inclusively within an organisation, demonstrates resourcefulness and is able to work independently and under supervision.

Key Responsibilities:

• Preparation of monthly overhead Rights cost centres including Invoice checking and coding
• Budget and forecast preparation
• Communicating with internal partners, e.g. Publishing and Group Finance, Royalties & Rights
• Conveying financial information to non- financial colleagues and stakeholders
• Preparation of regular analysis of performance e.g. trend analysis
• Communicating with external partners e.g. Auditors and any other relevant company for Publishing House
• Understand revenue and costs associated with Publishing and ability to follow accounting practises within the Group
• Adhering to accounting policies both internal and external
• Proficient on internal systems
• Improving reporting on the rights area

Dealing with any adhoc analysis that Finance and Commercial Director requires including potential consolidated of publishing finance data across the business

Key Technical Skills, Knowledge and Experience:

• Good excel skills including pivot tables, macros and what if statements
• Working towards a professional accounting qualification or qualified (ACCA, CIMA)
• Financially astute with proven skills of working with financial data
• Strong relationship builder
• Strong attention to detail
• Good time management and prioritisation skills
• Highly organised
• Good experience within a finance role over a number of years
• Power BI or Power query experience would be advantageous

If this sounds like your next opportunity, please apply with your CV and cover letter by Wednesday 19th of July.

Salary: \xc2\xa330,000 - \xc2\xa345,000 depending on how your skills and experience align to the role

Our employees are the heart of our business. We have a range of benefits to reflect our commitment to our employees, some of which are:

• 27 days paid holiday entitlement in year one (plus bank holidays), increasing a day each year up to 30 days
• Medical cover
• Life assurance
• Cycle to Work scheme
• Discounted gym membership
• Generous pension scheme
• Summer working hours (role dependent)
• Volunteering policy and charity matching
• Employee Assistance programme
• Mentoring programme
• Extended gender neutral parental leave
• Access to books and eBooks across Penguin Random House UK
• Each site has trained mental health first aiders
• We plant a tree for every new employee to our business

Our creativity is inspired by different perspectives, so we want our culture to be one of belonging, where everyone feels welcome and where differences are celebrated.

As a Disability Confident Committed organisation, we\'re part of the offer an interview scheme. This is where disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for the role can opt in to get to the next recruitment stage. There may be some situations where volume of applicants means we can\'t take all eligible candidates to interview.

We want to make sure disabled applicants can be their best at each step of the recruitment journey. If you need adjustments during the application process, we encourage you to get in touch with us at . Remember, you only need to share what you are comfortable to for us to support your adjustment request. Find out more about our approach here:

We partner with The Book Trade Charity, who provide financial assistance for people looking to get into the publishing industry; you can find more information and talk directly here:

Please note, we are not able to accept agency CVs for this role. Any CVs sent speculatively will not be eligible for a fee.

Company: Penguin Books Limited

Country: United Kingdom

State/Region: London

City: London

Postal Code: SW11

Job ID: 260272

Date: 12 Jul 2023

Location:

London, LND, GB, SW11

Penguin Books