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About the Role

This role bridges the gap between financial discipline and strategic change management, supporting the FP&A team in providing commercial support and insights on revenue and costs to drive improved financial performance. The objective is to implement best-in-class FP&A processes that can scale with business growth and assist the Transformation Board in leading the delivery and financial governance of critical, organisation-wide transformation initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Assist FP&A team in group budgeting, forecasting and long-term planning processes.
• Partner with the FP&A team to analyse financial data and performance, identifying and tracking trends, risks and opportunities.
• Provide variance analysis, cashflow forecasting and regular project-level P&L updates on active initiatives.
• Establish strong cross-functional relationships with department leads to undertake cost-benefit analysis.
• Own the secured revenue and annual recurring revenue reporting for the group.
• Own the group’s headcount planning and reporting.
• Own the financial tracking of the Transformation portfolio, to ensure expenses align with approved budgets.
• Assist the FP&A team in maintaining the finance, revenue and workforce planning in Vena (FP&A tool).
• Assist the FP&A team in guiding the commercial sales pipeline analysis with the BI team.
• Continuously improve financial processes, reporting systems and analytical tools.
• Prepare and present concise performance dashboards and financial updates for senior stakeholders.
• Collaborate with department heads to monitor external vendor costs, milestones and contract deliverables against project budgets.
• Review non-standard customer contracts to ensure they are acceptable for the business.
• Assist Transformation Board with the governance and execution of operational, structural and strategic change projects.
• Coordinate with project teams to provide financial modelling/budgeting inputs across departments.
• Ensure financial project inputs are communicated across teams to meet project milestones.
• Work with the Transformation Director to design clear stakeholder communication pathways.

Requirements

• Previous experience in FP&A, Commercial Finance, Finance Business Partnering or a similar analytical finance role.
• Experience supporting budgeting, forecasting, financial modelling and variance analysis.
• Proven ability to analyse financial data and provide commercially focused insights and recommendations.
• Experience managing or supporting cross-functional projects or business transformation initiatives.
• Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to build relationships across finance and non-finance teams.
• Experience preparing financial reports and presenting insights to senior stakeholders.
• Experience using financial planning and reporting systems (e.g. Vena, Anaplan, Adaptive Planning or similar).
• Advanced Excel skills.

Skills

• Financial modelling
• Variance analysis
• Financial data analysis
• Commercial insights
• Stakeholder management
• Financial reporting
• Financial planning systems
• Excel

Location

• Holborn

Work Type

• 3 days/week in office
• Hybrid

Experience Level

• Mid-level

Education Level

• Qualified or part-qualified ACA, ACCA or CIMA is desirable.

Salary/Compensations

• £60k - £65k

About the Company

• Times Higher Education is the data provider underpinning university excellence in every continent across the world.
• The company behind the world’s most influential university ranking.
• Almost five decades of experience as a source of analysis and insight on higher education.
• Unparalleled expertise on the trends underpinning university performance globally.
• Data and benchmarking tools are used by many of the world’s most prestigious universities.
• Events series act as the home of higher education thought leadership around the world.

Equal Opportunity

• We know that our individuality and diversity of experiences are our greatest strengths. That’s why we want THE to be a place where you are welcome to be who you want to be at work; where you can share whatever part of your life or self-identity you want, without obligation or facing discrimination; and where all abilities and perspectives are recognised and accommodated.