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About the Role

This role offers exposure to financial analysis, board deck preparation, month-end/year-end revenue reporting, business partnering, and understanding key performance drivers. It combines technical accounting with commercial finance, providing opportunities to develop analytical skills, build cross-team relationships, and own key financial processes. Responsibilities include consolidation, cost allocation, and management information reporting.

Responsibilities

Produce and maintain a multi-currency and multi-territory budget, forecast and 5-year plan consolidation.
Support the analysis of budget and forecast data, challenging where necessary and pulling together bridges and variance analysis.
Improve and adapt current models in line with business needs.
Maintain strong working relationships with business partners.
Manage large amounts of data from multiple sources.
Produce management reports and ad-hoc financial presentations, including the board deck.
Develop clear, logical driver-based Excel and BPC models for consolidation and analysis.
Assist in providing finance systems support across the EMEA team.
Leverage systems by integrating and automating reports into financial planning models.
Act as the main point of contact for the finance team during month-end, forecast, and budget periods, including setting up internal orders and deals in SAP/BPC.
Provide analysis and assessment of performance against agreed budget/forecast plans monthly.
Support all ad hoc reporting.
Support Head of FP&A with key strategic projects.
Manage the allocation process for budget, forecast, and month-end, implementing different methodologies as needed.
Prepare monthly management accounts across Revenue for review.
Understand transaction nature and identify appropriate accounting treatment, referring to contracts if necessary.
Post month-end journals and understand their impact on P&L and balance sheet.
Support the maintenance of month-end reporting models, ensuring data accuracy.
Prepare the monthly flash revenue report for senior management.
Support with Budgets/Forecasts.
Prepare monthly balance sheet reconciliations, investigating and resolving anomalies.
Work closely with Accounts Receivable & Commercial on monthly billing and accrual queries, including raising internal invoice request forms and tracking partner deal renewals.
Liaise with auditors and support external reporting as necessary.

Requirements

Part qualified accountant, at least 50% through qualification.
Comfortable with large data sets and ability to analyze data.
Advanced Excel skills and willingness to further learn.
Month End experience.
Basic accounting knowledge is essential.
Minimum two years of work experience within a Finance team.
Multi-currency experience.
Consolidations experience.
Analysing competency.
Planning and Organising competency.
Working with People competency.
Presenting and Communicating Information competency.
Adapting and Responding to Change competency.
Proactive and innovative.
Self-starter, takes ownership to work independently, make logical decisions and prioritize workload.
Able to build strong relationships across the business and across different markets.
Effective team member with strong time management skills, high attention to detail and accuracy.
Works well under pressure, with the ability to prioritize and meet all deadlines.
Analytically strong with the ability to solve complex problems, thinking outside the box.
Inquisitive - able to identify anomalies and challenge assumptions.
Excellent communicator with strong interpersonal skills, able to collaborate with a range of colleagues at varying levels of seniority.

Skills

Financial analysis
Board deck preparation
Month-end reporting
Year-end reporting
Revenue reporting
Business partnering
Stakeholder management
Financial consolidation
Cost allocation
Management information reporting
Budgeting
Forecasting
Variance analysis
Excel modeling
BPC modeling
SAP
Data management
Financial systems support
Report automation
Balance sheet reconciliation
Power BI
Media industry experience

Location

London

Work Type

Hybrid
Permanent

Experience Level

Part-qualified accountant
Minimum two years of work experience

Education Level

Part qualified accountant

About the Company

At Hearst Networks, we share stories that matter, inspiring and exciting our audiences with hit US franchises, must-see docudramas, and original commissions. We champion original programming and have seen successes with recent series. We welcome talented candidates with infectious enthusiasm who love what they do, and are ready to learn, develop and thrive. Here you’ll find a community of innovative, creative and inspiring people who aren’t afraid to embrace responsibility and try new things collaboratively, as a team. We are a certified Great Place to Work® with a can-do, motivated culture that believes in working to live, not just living to work. Every employee has a voice and is encouraged to be themselves and be ambitious. With offices in Rome, Madrid, London, Warsaw, Munich and Johannesburg, we are a truly international organisation that celebrates difference and diversity. Hearst Networks Values: Curiosity, Courage, Care.

Equal Opportunity

As an inclusive employer, we value the diversity of our teams and want our workforce to reflect our wider society. We encourage and welcome applications from people from under-represented backgrounds and are keen to make sure we are inclusive and accessible to all. Please do let us know if you require any adjustments or assistance for meetings and communications with you when you apply for a role with us.