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About the Role

As Finance Manager, you will be a key member of the Publishing Finance team, working closely with the Finance & Commercial Director to support all commercial aspects of the Vintage division. This includes providing financial insight and analysis on new acquisitions, reprints, sales margins and author payments, helping to drive informed business decisions and maximise performance. Working closely with stakeholders across the business, you will act as a trusted finance business partner, providing meaningful analysis and recommendations while ensuring compliance with internal financial controls, policies, and external reporting requirements. You will also lead and develop the Finance Analyst in the team, fostering a high-performing and collaborative culture. This role offers the opportunity to influence decision-making and contribute to the continued success of one of the UK's leading publishing divisions.

Responsibilities

Management accounting, preparation of P&L and balance sheet where relevant, including preparation and posting of journals; managing production of monthly KPI pack
Managing budget and forecast processes excluding direct staff costs
Key input into financial and commercial decisions including author acquisitions and bonus levels
Development of new reporting and processes to aid business decisions
Ensuring best practice and financial controls are followed
Direct line management, including training and development of finance analyst
Assisting FD in developing financial awareness throughout the division (e.g. completed titles reviews) and delivering/overseeing training sessions to non-financial staff on reading and understanding acquisition P&L’s
Responding quickly to requests for additional information which may aid the business to improve their profitability
Dealing with external partners including any queries from auditors both internal and external
Ability to represent Finance & Commercial Director in their absence in some regular meetings e.g. costings, acquisitions

Requirements

Can demonstrate ability to build and maintain strong working relationships at a variety of levels throughout the division and group
Excellent communication skills both written and oral with the ability to influence a wide range of people
Creativity combined with sound commercial judgement and highly developed analytical capability
Accuracy and attention to detail
Ability to multitask and handle competing priorities
Strong team player with interpersonal sensitivity
Some experience at owning day-to-day finance deliverables
Experience in line management
Accounting Qualification
Please apply with your CV and cover letter (both in pdf format) outlining why you are the right candidate for the role by 11:59pm on Sunday 27th September.
The cover letter should be uploaded as an additional document.
Please ensure you include a cover letter (in pdf format), as it is a crucial part of our assessment process.
The cover letter offers an opportunity to show how your experience and interests align with the role requirements.
Typically, we expect the cover letter to be no more than one or two pages in length.
As a Disability Confident Committed organisation, we offer interviews to candidates with a disability who meet the essential criteria for the role, and opt-in on their application form.
The essential criteria for this role are listed as part of the ‘What you’ll bring’ section.
There may be times when the volume of applications means we cannot take all eligible candidates to interview.
We encourage you to tell us about any reasonable adjustments you may need by emailing [email protected].
Remember, you only need to share what you are comfortable with,cdot to support your request.

Skills

Financial insight
Financial analysis
Commercial insight
Financial business partnering
Financial controls
Internal financial controls
External reporting
Team leadership
Team development
Budget management
Forecast management
Reporting development
Process development
Best practice implementation
Financial awareness development
Communication skills
Analytical capability
Attention to detail
Multitasking
Interpersonal skills

Location

London

Work Type

Hybrid working
Full-time

Experience Level

Line management experience
Some experience at owning day-to-day finance deliverables

Education Level

Accounting Qualification

Salary/Compensations

£50,000 - £57,000
plus bonus and benefits

Benefits

bonus
benefits

About the Company

Vintage is a commercially and critically successful publisher with a catalogue of over 6,000 titles. We publish some of the world’s most thought-provoking, unforgettable, beautifully designed books – from contemporary trailblazers to our red-spine Vintage classics. Which means that our broad family of authors ranges from world-class prize-winners to brand new, emerging talent including Margaret Atwood, Tim Spector, Nigella Lawson, Rory Stewart and Jo Nesbo.
Vintage is an exciting place to work. We pride ourselves on our dynamic culture, and the whole division celebrates our successes.

Equal Opportunity

As a Disability Confident Committed organisation, we offer interviews to candidates with a disability who meet the essential criteria for the role, and opt-in on their application form.
We encourage you to tell us about any reasonable adjustments you may need by emailing [email protected].
Remember, you only need to share what you are comfortable with,cdot to support your request.