Senior Finance Business Partner

Location

Oxford, Oxfordshire | United Kingdom

Job description

About Us

We are the world’s largest university press. We have both a worldwide reach and a personal understanding of local needs, partnering on the ground to adapt publications and resources to meet the individual needs of communities, societies, and countries. We partner with researchers, educators, and technology partners to stay ahead of the changing ways people around the world are accessing and sharing knowledge. With a presence in more than 50 countries and millions of customers around the world, an idea launched at OUP can have global impact.

About the Role

The purpose of the role is the provision of high quality and pro-active finance business partnering to Centres of Excellence within Technology & Operations.

Key responsibilities in this role include:

• 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.
• Prepare investment appraisals and business cases as required to support initiatives.
• Work with FP&A on the development of financial budgeting and forecasting processes, as well as supporting measurement of performance and option evaluation
• 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.
• 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

To be successful in this role, you will ideally have/be:

• 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.
• Experience working in a matrix management environment within an international group is highly desirable
• Experience working with FP&A and Finance Operations disciplines is highly advantageous
• 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.

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. 

Please see our Rewards and Recognition page for more information.

Queries

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

Please note this advert may be removed before the advertised end date, so we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.

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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