Junior Finance Manager - Capex

Job Description

Your role:

As Finance Manager – CapEx your role will be an essential part of the Peterborough Management Accounting team, reporting into the Senior Finance Manager Shared Costs.

You will be responsible for the CapEx process ensuring that CapEx is recorded correctly and reporting the total CapEx Cash position for Publishing and Broadcasting to the Senior Finance Manager.

You will work closely with the onshore and offshore finance teams, ensuring clear specifications for their work and reviewing deliverables.

Key Responsibilities:

Regular Capex review with stakeholders across Facilities, Broadcasting and Technology, ensuring robust control over cash spend and forecasting

Working closely with stakeholders across the business to review and challenge investment board forms, ensuring that the meet technical accounting requirements and assessing return on investment

Oversight of monthly & weekly Capex reporting that is prepared by the offshore team to ensure stakeholders have timely information

Owning Sox controls processes for Capex and ensuring that Capex approvals policy is followed

Review of CapEx Assets Under Construction Reconciliations, ensuring Offshore team are capitalising on a timely basis

Assisting with adhoc Capex analysis

Identifying opportunities for improvement and efficiencies within reporting, particularly leveraging AI capabilities

Day to day you will:

Review weekly and month end submissions for Capex, communicating any key under or overspends to the stakeholders and Senior FM as required

Be across project trackers and spend profiles, that are prepared by the offshore team, to ensure any over/under spends on cash are communicated to the Senior Finance Manager on a timely basis.

Prepare Cash budgets and forecasts based on conversations with stakeholders, across Facilities, Technology and Broadcasting to ensure numbers submitted are as accurate as possible.

Provide monthly commentary on Capex to inform Senior Finance Manager and stakeholders of cash positions and any risk areas

Provide commentary in the quarterly conference call deck on movements and trends in the quarter

Sign off on balance sheet reconciliations and submit in Blackline system

Understand all Capex Sox and approvals processes to ensure they are followed; challenge and highlight to the Senior Finance Manager if any instances where they are not being followed.

Proactively identify risks and opportunities within Capex & Technology OpEx/CapEx

Being main point of contact for CapEx audit requests, ensuring supporting documentation is provided by Genpact

Management of Quarterly and Year End Capex cash position, ensuring communication to Senior Finance Manager, especially in the run up to year end to ensure no surprises

What we're looking for from you:

ACA/ACCA/CIMA qualified or equivalent

Effective and clear communications skills, to both finance and non-finance stakeholders

Capable of analysing data and transforming it into insights for the HOF Technology

A willingness to learn and understand the accounting rules around capitalisation and accounting for Fixed Assets.

Drive and enthusiasm to develop the role and realise process efficiency across Tech and CapEx

Capable of flexibility and working with ambiguity, willing to take initiative without guidance

Confidence to challenge and influence stakeholders on their budgets/forecasts and month end numbers.

News UK is 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 and Virgin Radio UK, and we have market-leading local 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 multi-format brands are home to a plurality of opinion, representing the diverse communities we serve. Driven by passion, guided by principles and acting with purpose, we exist to promote a fair society, freedom of speech and a little bit of fun. Rethinking continually the business of storytelling, we represent, reflect and reach the nation, telling the stories that matter.

At News UK, we embrace a hybrid work model, currently requiring a minimum of three days per week in the office. This approach fosters collaboration, innovation, and team spirit within our workspace. Certain roles may necessitate additional in-office days; please discuss this with your recruiter for specific requirements.

Life at News

Driven by passion, guided by principles and acting with purpose. We represent, reflect and reach the nation, telling the stories that matter. We inform our audiences so that they can make decisions based on trusted information.

We represent, reflect and reach the nation, telling the stories that matter most. To ensure these stories resonate with as broad an audience as possible, it is essential that our organisation reflects the diversity of the people we reach. Whether through age, gender, ethnicity, disability, social class or sexuality, we are committed to representing the rich variety of voices that make up our society. And we champion a culture where everyone has the opportunity to contribute and thrive as we continue to innovate and drive long term sustainable growth. This is done through our Diversity Strategy.

At News UK, we take pride in our exceptional employee-led networks that bring together individuals with shared interests and create a vibrant sense of community. We believe our networks play a vital role in fostering a collaborative and supportive work culture at News UK. Groups that we support include the African & Caribbean Network, Parents and Carers, and LGBTQ+ group News Is Out, and the Apprentice Society.

Benefits

Some of our benefits include:

Private medical insurance including coverage for pre-existing conditions

Discounted gym memberships, free ClassPass at Home, weekly in person/ virtual exercise classes

‘Bikes for Work’ and ‘Electric Car’ scheme

Up to 60% discount on Harper Collins books

Maternity leave up to 18 weeks full basic salary & paternity leave up to 2 weeks

Access to exclusive events and competitions with exciting brands such as talkSPORT, Virgin Radio UK & The Times. Weekly virtual panel chats with top journalists and celebrities

Access to wellbeing benefits such as EAP, physio/massage and counselling

A generous pension scheme with employer contributions of up to 5%

Wide range of training available, plus full LinkedIn Learning access

25 days holiday plus bank holidays, as well as an extra anniversary day off

Up to 3 paid volunteering days per year to support causes you care about

We are committed to providing an inclusive recruitment process. If you require reasonable adjustments due to a disability or health condition at any stage of your application or interview, please let us know. You can contact us at careers@news.co.uk to discuss how we can support you to perform at your best.