Description:
This role is open to candidates based in the UK. You must have the right to live and work in the UK. Taylor & Francis has flexible hybrid working options for how employees can work based on their role. This role will be worked predominantly from home, with approximately 1 day per week to be worked from one of our offices in either Milton Park, Oxfordshire, or from London Blackfriars (or a combination of both).
Help us progress human progress through knowledge! In this role you will aid in our mission by:
- Maintaining an efficient and effective annual planning process including communicating plans and requirements to key stakeholders
- Maintaining the cadence of the planning cycle for the business ensuring key dates, deliverables and priorities are shared, understood and met
- Supporting the consolidation of T&F Budgets, forecasts and 3YPs and prepare clear, consistent and timely reporting on T&F performance and value metrics
- Designing, developing, delivering, and maintaining best practice documentation of processes and procedures
- Preparingbusiness activity timetabling that can be used as a reference tool for ELT, connecting business plans, strategy, and financial plans.
- Assisting and guidingthe T&F Finance team in planning for strategic, budget and forecast processes to ensure rigour in all aspects of the company’s financial planning
- Preparingexecutive level presentations for the T&F ELT and Group stakeholders
- Assisting with the preparation of the MTR pack to Group, assessing monthly, YTD and YTG performance against forecast, budget and prior year
- Maintaining the risk and ops register ensuring that this holds robust, accurate and up to date information
- Managingad hoc queries, including preparation of additional ‘one-off’ analysis
- Undertakinganalysis work for ad hoc projects, business cases and scenario planning (requirement gathering, functional specification creation, process mapping, preparation of financial models etc.)
- Proactively seeking opportunities to automate processes and to drive process improvements working closely with the Finance Operations team to embed system-based solutions including TM1 modules and PowerBI dashboards
The ideal candidate will have knowledge & experience of:
- 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
- Technical awareness of industry and developments in accounting standards that may impact the business
- Strong MS skillset, especially Excel and PowerPoint
- Attention to detail is essential
- Financial modelling and data visualisation skills are essential
Skills and Behaviours Required
- 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
- Project management experience, particularly around planning multiple workflows, communicating requirements, and tracking progress.
- Storytelling abilities – to be able to pick up key messages and communicate effectively to stakeholders.
- Able to present information in a professional and succinct way using PowerPoint or other presentation software.
- Has a curious and proactive mind-set and keen to understand the ‘why’
- 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 passionate about data needing to be both accurate and of a high quality to make better decisions
- Commitment to continuous improvement and the ability to drive improvements based on data analysis and evidence-based learning
- Ability to handle and communicate information sensitively and professionally
- Self-starter and problem-solver with the ability to work with minimal supervision. Be hands-on and open to new ways of doing things