Senior Finance Business Partner, Technology

2 weeks ago

Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom Oxford University Press Full time
About the Role

As our new Senior Finance Business Partner, you will provide high-quality, proactive financial support to our Technology & Operations Centres of Excellence. This exciting role combines strategic planning, financial analysis, and collaboration with management teams to drive performance, optimize resources, and shape decision-making. If you're ready to use your expertise in a commercial finance role to influence meaningful business outcomes, we'd love to hear from you.

Duties of the role will include:

1. Provide Finance Business Partnering support to Technology & Operations Centre of Excellence:
  • Enhance the understanding of financial performance and use financial data to support and influence decision making.
  • Develop and maintain a full understanding of the underlying financial cost base and its drivers.
  • Partner with management to ensure that forecasts/budgets reflect strategic planning/ direction and help them take decisions over resource allocation and actions to be taken in response to forecast performance.
  • Work with management & Procurement on commercial relationships with suppliers.
  • Balance risk management with identifying cost efficiency options, working capital efficiency and known/ required investment areas.
  • Request ad hoc reports, analysis and support from FP&A team to help achieve the above.
2. Prepare investment appraisals and business cases as required to support initiatives.

3. Work with Group Functions FP&A on:
  • Development of accurate financial budgeting and forecasting processes for
  • Technology & Operations to enhance financial control and support to strategy development, scenario planning and decision-making processes.
  • Presentation of results for Technology & Operations, supporting measurement of performance and option evaluation, plus commentary to interpret the results.
4. Support Finance with any Group Functions escalations or queries. Enhance financial control and risk management within Technology & Operations areas, plus respond to internal audit activity.

5. Work with Divisional Technology & Operations Business Partners, to ensure that financial direction aligns with Divisional priorities and that cross-functional dependencies are considered.

We operate a hybrid working policy that requires a minimum of 2 days per week in the Oxford office.

About You
  • Qualified accountant (ACA/CIMA/ACCA or equivalent)
  • Proven success in a commercial finance role, with a detailed knowledge and understanding of key commercial drivers
  • Experience of working with operational management in a commercial organisation
  • Excellent analytical skills, with the ability to interpret and analyse data to make informed and insightful business recommendations pointing management towards opportunity for value addition
  • First-rate communication skills with the ability to present complex financials to varied populations, and to develop and maintain effective working relationships at all levels within the organisation
  • Experience working in a matrix management environment within an international group and with FP&A and Finance Operations disciplines
  • Experience in a technology environment is desirable
Please note, this is a 6-month fixed term contract covering maternity leave, with the possibility of an extension.

As an internal candidate, when applying for a secondment, you must discuss the opportunity and gain approval with your line manager/department in advance of submitting an application.

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 private medical insurance and a discretionary annual management bonus.

Please see our Rewards and Recognition page for more information.

Queries

Please contact grace.mcfadyen@oup.com 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.

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