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Your Role
Being a News UK Finance Graduate is a gateway to a great career in Finance. During your time with us you will earn a competitive salary, get work experience with the opportunity to take responsibility and ownership in your own role, and study towards full qualification in either CIMA or ACCA.
You will study as part of our finance training policy, which provides full funding towards lessons, course material, exams, student membership. You will have a study mentor, an annual study days allowance, and will be eligible for bonuses based on your exam progress.
The Team
The Finance team has a track record of developing staff successfully into future opportunities and leaders of tomorrow. You work in a fast paced environment where no two days are the same which means that this opportunity will present a chance to work within various Finance teams here in Peterborough, helping you gain valuable experience and exposure to how each team operates. These could include working within the following teams:
- Corporate Reporting & Controls
- Management Accounting
- Finance Systems
- Tax
- Treasury
- Accounts Payable
- Accounts Receivable
- Payroll
- Operational HR
You may also have the opportunity to spend some time working in the London Finance team.
What will my day to day look like
You will work within a busy team perform finance & administrative duties which could include some or all of the following
- Learning how to compile month end reporting, forecasts and budgets in our management accounting teams, covering areas such as production, logistics, advertising revenue, marketing costs, overhead costs and capital expenditure
- Processing payments, investigating purchase orders and looking in to on-hold items in our accounts payable team
- Creating sales invoices across the News UK titles and chasing outstanding payments with accounts receivable
- Helping the payroll team with their administration
- Learning about News UK’s statutory accounts process, supporting in preparing them and liaising with the auditors alongside the Corporate Reporting team
- Understanding the importance of internal controls within a large organisation and the requirements of SOX on a US listed business
- Supporting the Treasury team in daily, weekly and monthly control, reporting and forecasting activities
- Providing basic tax support
- Experience on data entry across our finance systems – SAP and TM1
- Talking to and working with business stakeholders across Peterborough and London, such as the marketing teams, editorial teams and operations team
- In your training time, you’ll need to meet the requirements of your qualification – attending the training provider’s courses when required, meeting their deadlines and passing the ACCA or CIMA exams.
What can we offer you?
- Support with study towards full qualification in either CIMA or ACCA
- The opportunity to work on ad-hoc projects across Peterborough and London
- Study Mentor
- Annual Study days allowance
- Bonuses based on exam progress
- Social committee
- Summer and Christmas Party
- FIKA Friday
- Badminton and Yoga
- Raft Race
- Fundraisers
What we’re looking for from you
- Someone with a positive attitude
- Willingness to learn and work as part of an exciting, dynamic finance team.
- Excellent communication skills to interact with people across multiple functions at different levels.
- Minimum entry requirement is a relevant degree from a Finance and Accounting, Business related or STEM subject area.
As part of the Online Application process please submit a covering letter telling us about yourself and why you are interested in a career in Finance with News UK.
About us
News UK is a company full of talented, dedicated and creative people. We are an ambitious and ever-growing organisation with a passion for storytelling, capturing moments, meaning and magic to make sense of the world. Our newspapers reach more than 30 million people each week and include The Sun, The Times and The Sunday Times. News UK is also home to Wireless, a leading UK and Irish media company boasting independent local and national radio stations.
Life at News
At News UK some of us work flexibly, in many different ways. We encourage you to talk to us about the flexibility you need. We can’t promise to offer exactly what you want, but we do promise not to judge you for asking.
We champion diversity and inclusion, we strive to maximise and encourage every individual’s potential and ensure everyone feels valued. We support this through our Diversity Board, D&I strategy & training, creating more diverse content and our intern and apprenticeship programmes. We also have 8 employee-led networks; Cultural Diversity, News is Out, GenZ, Sustainability Champions, News for Parents, Women in Tech, News UK Christian Fellowship and we are awaiting the launch of our Women’s Steering Group.
We take pride in looking after our amazing talent at News UK supporting the Health and Wellbeing of our staff. We offer private medical insurance covering pre-existing conditions, discounted gym memberships, ClassPass at Home, weekly virtual HIIT, yoga and run club classes, and a ‘Bikes for Work’ scheme, as well as offering opportunities for counselling and legal support.
In addition we also offer
- A generous pension scheme with employer contributions of up to 5%;
- 25 days holiday and up to 4 volunteering days per year;
- Maternity leave up to 18 weeks full basic salary & paternity leave up to 2 weeks;
- Wide range of training available, plus full LinkedIn Learning access.
We want to ensure that everyone we meet has the opportunity to perform to their best when interviewing, so feel free to let us know, at any stage, whether you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, and we will do our best to accommodate.
Application closing date: 10th August 2022
