Senior FP&A Analyst

Job description

About the Role

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. This role will lead the delivery of process improvements and automation initiatives using Power BI, Power Query, Office Scripts and other digital tools to drive efficiency, standardisation and enhanced financial insight.

Key responsibilities in this role will include:

• Perform FP&A activities including (but not limited to) reporting, budgeting, forecasting.
• Identify, develop and implement process improvements and automation opportunities to streamline FP&A activities, improve controls and reduce manual effort.
• 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
• Proven ability to lead process improvement and automation initiatives using Power BI, Power Query and Office Scripts
• Experience of problem solving and analysis techniques to define problems
• Commitment to continual personal professional development
• Strong 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

Benefits

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.

Queries

Please contact [email protected] with any queries relating to this role.

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.