Finance Business Partner

6 months ago


Abingdon, United Kingdom Taylor and Francis Full time

Company Description

Informa is a leading academic publishing, business intelligence, knowledge and events business, creating unique content and connectivity for customers all over the world. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a member of the FTSE 100.

Taylor & Francis is one of the world’s largest publishers of high-quality, peer reviewed scholarly journals, books, e-books and reference works. We empower learners, thinkers and doers with trusted knowledge that advances research and enriches lives. We bring together diverse people, ideas and opinions to validate and publish the experts, theories and truths that matter. And we’ve been doing this in an unbroken arc since 1798.

Our purpose is to foster human progress through knowledge. We strongly believe that this requires us to encourage and examine different ideas and voices, so that any work that meets our exacting levels of quality deserves to be included in our publications. This requires open minds, the opportunity for robust debate, and the courage to defend perspectives that stand up to scrutiny, even if they conflict with our personal beliefs or values. Because that’s the only way to find the best obtainable version of the truth and, ultimately, foster human progress. If you agree, then we’d love to hear from you

**Job Description**:
This is a hybrid role with 3 days per week worked from home in the UK, and a requirement to work at least one of your office days from our office in Milton Park, Oxfordshire. You may also work from our office in Blackfriars Road, London.

**Key Accountabilities**:
Reporting to our Director - Commercial Finance, you will:

- Prepare actionable insight and analysis to support the business with understanding revenue and gross profit performance against budget and forecasts
- Work closely with business stakeholders and finance colleagues to deliver the annual planning cycle (Budget, 3YP and forecasts) and generate high-quality accurate forecasting through robust modelling of revenues
- Provide clear, consistent, and timely reporting on performance and value metrics
- Provide responsive business partnering and decision support to commercial and operations teams
- Build strong internal networks and be the principal contact on all finance related P2R:RS queries
- Report on sales pipelines, committed revenue and gap fill exercises
- Work closely with pricing teams to ensure that we have appropriate price optimisation strategies in place supported by robust pricing analytics
- Develop new reporting as required to support the commercial and operational decision-making processes
- Work with the Commercial and Researcher Services teams on new initiatives and product proposals to assess and demonstrate the impact of future behaviours
- Prepare robust financial models, business cases and data driven analytical tools for P2R:RS investments
- Assist with the assessment of M&A and other new market opportunities
- Support with the preparation of reports for SLT meetings and the fortnightly Revenue Forum
- Monitor and report on risks and opportunities
- Work closely with the Finance Control team to ensure that all month end data and reporting is accurate and delivered on a timely basis
- Work closely with the Finance Operations team to embed system-based FP&A solutions
- Lead on the design and development of automated revenue reporting, including PowerBI dashboards and integration with other business systems including Salesforce
- Ensure all P2R:RS budget, forecast and 3YP data in TM1 is up to date and accurate
- Business partner with global commercial teams alongside P2R:RS commercial colleagues
- Provide insight, analysis and reporting on other areas of the business as required by the Director - Commercial finance

**Qualifications**:

- A Professional qualification (ACCA, ACA, CIMA or equivalent) or equivalent QBE is essential to success in this role.
- Significant post qualified experience in financial reporting / forecasting / budgeting / business partnering
- Demonstrable SAP and Planning Analytics (TM1) user experience is essential with experience of Salesforce and PowerBI a benefit
- Comfortable manipulating large data sets and visualising complex financial information to non finance stakeholders
- Technical awareness of industry and developments in accounting standards that may impact the P2R:RS business
- Strong MS skillset, especially Excel and Powerpoint
- Attention to detail is essential
- Financial modelling skills are essential
- Excellent communication/presentation skills and the ability to maintain strong working relationships
- A high level of numerical and analytical capability with a strong eye for detail
- Experience working in a fast-paced, high growth, technology focused organisation
- Ability to manage workload in challenging and busy environment
- Ability to prioritise and balance multiple and often conflicting requests/timeframes
- An interest in driving finance planning solutions and pass



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