Finance Business Partner - The Guardian : Job Details

Finance Business Partner

Salary: £34,500 – £44,850 per annum

Location: Cambridge, Gateshead, Coventry/ Hybrid (minimum two days per week in the office)

Contract: Permanent, 35 hours per week

Our Education Finance Team are hiring for a Finance Business Partner role to work closely with our UK Education business managers supporting the divisions that deliver our exams series.

This is a great opportunity for professionals skilled in finance to develop their careers while making a meaningful difference within our organisation.

We are Cambridge University Press & Assessment, a world leading academic publisher and assessment organisation and a proud part of the University of Cambridge.

About the role

You will join the UK Education Finance Business Partners Team, who provides information, analysis and advice to support decision making at Group, Business Unit and budget holder level. You also will be pivotal to providing analysis and input to the production of budget and forecasts, contributing to the Group planning process.

Providing a finance business partnering service to UK Education business area, you will support and advise to a wide range of colleagues, with the accountability for the delivery of insightful, accurate and timely outputs, helping to deliver strong financial performance.

With excellent relationship management skills, you will establish effective working relationships with business colleagues to ensure proper budget management and adherence to financial cycle requirements. In addition to creating accurate budgets and forecasts that reflect the business area's plans, you will influence business decisions by providing insightful financial analysis. 

About you

You will already hold or be working towards completion of a professional accounting qualification (CIMA, ACCA or equivalent), or have demonstrable experience providing a business partnering service, and have the skills and ability to provide insight into business performance.

Possessing excellent verbal and written communication skills, you will have advanced proficiency in Excel, enabling you to manipulate financial data and produce accessible outputs for a variety of stakeholder groups. Good time management skills are essential, as is the ability to appropriately apply relevant accounting standards.

To be successful in this role, you will require a high level of numeric reasoning and an aptitude for problem solving and decision making, while understanding when to refer queries to a higher level.

Experience:

• Demonstrate experience of supporting and challenging operational teams Finance Business Partnering including preparation of monthly reports as well as costing/pricing work.
• Experience of management accounts or Finance Business partnering in a global organisation is desirable.
• Project work, including understanding of contract terms, beneficial.
• Successfully producing detailed and accurate work to deadlines.
• Good working knowledge of finance procedures and experience of using a major finance systems.

For a full brief on what this role entails or what will make you successful, please see the full job descriptions attached to the bottom of this vacancy on our careers page.  

Rewards and benefits

We will support you to be at your best in work and to live well outside of it. In addition to competitive salaries, we offer a world-class, flexible rewards package, featuring family-friendly and planet-friendly benefits including:

• 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• Private medical and Permanent Health Insurance
• Discretionary annual bonus
• Group personal pension scheme
• Life assurance up to 4 x annual salary
• Green travel schemes

We are a hybrid working organisation, and we offer a range of flexible working options from day one. We expect most hybrid-working colleagues to spend 40-60% of their time at their dedicated office or location. We will also consider other work arrangements if you wish to work more flexibly or require adjustments due to a disability.

Ready to pursue your potential? Apply now.

We review applications on an ongoing basis, with a closing date for all applications being end of day, Monday 6 January2025, although we may close it earlier if suitable candidates are identified. Interviews will take place from the w/c 13 January 2025.

Please note that successful applicants will be subject to satisfactory background checks including DBS due to working in a regulated industry.

Cambridge University Press & Assessment is an approved UK employer for the sponsorship of eligible roles and applicants under the Skilled Worker visa route. Please refer to the gov.uk website for guidance to understand your own eligibility based on the role you are applying for.

Why join us

Joining us is your opportunity to pursue potential. You'll belong to a collaborative team that's exploring new and better ways to serve students, teachers and researchers across the globe – for the benefit of individuals, society and the world. Sharing our mission will inspire your own growth, development and progress, in an environment which embraces difference, change and aspiration.

Cambridge University Press & Assessment is committed to being a place where anyone can enjoy a successful career, where it's safe to speak up, and where we learn continuously to improve together. We welcome applications from all candidates, regardless of demographic characteristics (age, disability, educational attainment, ethnicity, gender, marital status, neurodiversity, religion, sex, gender identity and sexual identity), cultural, or social class/background.

We believe better outcomes come through diversity of thought, background and approach. We welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and communities, actively seeking to employ people from a wide range of different communities.