Senior Finance Manager

Future PLC requires a Senior Finance Manager for its Magazine division. Future Plc is a global platform for specialist media, home to some of the world's most famous magazine brands including Country Life, Marie Claire, PC Gamer and Home & Gardens. The role is responsible for ensuring the integrity of the Magazine revenue, producing the monthly financial management accounts including performance analysis, and budgets and forecasts. In addition, this role will be business partner the Subscription Marketing Directors and Newstrade Commercial Director.

What you'll be doing...

As number two to the Head of Finance for Magazines and Newstrade, the Senior Finance Manager will manage month end reporting & analysis, balance sheet controls for Future PLC Magazine revenue, as well as being the key Finance business partner to the Subscription Marketing Directors and the Newstrade Commercial Director.

Following a period of growth, acquisitions and migration to new systems, the role holder will also play a key part in driving efficiencies in processes and optimising reporting to better inform stakeholders decisions.

There will be three / four direct reports.

Month end Reporting & Analysis

• Ownership of producing monthly management accounts to a strict timetable and in accordance with company policy and generally accepted accounting practice


• Support the Head of Finance in transforming the subscription revenue reporting to align with brand allocation between Specialist and News & Wealth


• Prepare performance analysis and commentary versus budget / forecast, as well as presenting the monthly results to Head of Commercial Finance and Key stakeholders within the business
  
  Experienced qualified accountant, with greater than 4 year PQE (ACA, CIMA or ACCA)


• Proven track record of managing, coaching and develop junior team members


• You will need to be comfortable leading the monthly management accounts process for Magazine revenue, quarterly forecasting process and oversight of year end close


• Strong communication and business partnering skills with an aptitude for collaboration and share knowledge sharing


• Strong analytical and problem solving skills


• Ability to understand, review and improve processes and controls


• Comfortable driving change across multiple functions and stakeholders


• Confidence to challenge the status quo, balanced with providing guidance to the business


• Positive mindset, proactive and with a can-do attitude
  
  We're Future. We're 3000+ colleagues over 250+ brands speaking to 400 million people every month across the globe through websites, events and magazines. We've got ambitious plans that build on our growth momentum and unlock new opportunities and we're looking for talented people who want to be a part of it.


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Our Future, Our Responsibility - Inclusion and Diversity at Future

We have a voice and we're going to use it. We promote diversity and inclusion not just in our recruitment processes, but everything we do. We're an equal opportunity employer and we will continue to ensure our recruitment process is free of bias and our workplaces are inclusive, positive, free of discrimination and respecting of all backgrounds and beliefs. Our culture is underpinned by our values and employees - current and future - are treated with respect and fairness. Find out more about Our Future, Our Responsibility on our website.

And to top it all off, not only do we offer unlimited holiday because we trust you to manage your workload and time but we also offer a share in our success whereby every member of staff joins our profit pool bonus scheme.

Internal Job Family Level P4

The expected range for this role is £50,000 - £70,000