Finance Manager, Vintage

Are you looking for an exciting opportunity to join a dynamic team and make a significant impact on the commercial aspects of a business?

Our Vintage division are looking for a Finance Manager to join them and assist the Finance and Commercial Director in all commercial aspects of the business, including new acquisitions, stock holding, sales margins, and author payments.

As a key member of the team, you will be responsible for day-to-day results reporting, business partnering, month end close, statutory reporting, and inputting into the budgeting and forecasting for the division.

Key Responsibilities:

• Management accounting, preparation of P&L and balance sheet
• Supervising budget and forecast preparation
• Key input into financial and commercial decisions, including author acquisitions
• Development of reporting to aid business decisions
• Ensuring best practice and financial controls are followed
• Direct line management, including training and development of one finance analyst
• Responsible for developing financial awareness throughout the division
• Dealing with external partners including auditors
• Identifying system enhancements to improve processes

What you’ll bring to the role:

The ideal candidate will have the ability to build and maintain strong working relationships, possess excellent communication skills, and demonstrate creativity combined with sound commercial judgment and highly developed analytical capability.

Attention to detail, the ability to multitask and handle competing priorities are essential, as well as being a strong team player. We are looking for someone who is a qualified accountant or near qualification and have experience at this level.

In addition to technical skills, the successful candidate must be proactive and able to identify improvements, work effectively and inclusively with a range of people, and demonstrate determination, resourcefulness, and purpose to deliver results.

About Vintage:

With a catalogue of over 6,000 titles, Vintage publishes some of the world’s most thought-provoking, unforgettable, beautifully designed books – from contemporary trailblazers to our red-spine Vintage Classics. This means that our broad family of authors ranges from world-class prize-winners to emerging talent, including Nigella Lawson, Toni Morrison, Margaret Atwood, Jo Nesbo, Rukmini Iyer, Gabrielle Zevin and Ian McEwan.

About Penguin:

We’re the UK’s largest publisher; made up of some 2,000 people and publishing over 1,500 books each year. Our doors are open to all kinds of talent. In a constantly evolving industry, we work hard to stretch the definition of the word publisher. Here, you’ll work with a breadth of talent who all play their part to make each of our books a success. Together, we make books for everyone because a book can change anyone.

How to apply: Please apply with your CV & Cover Letter by 23:59 on Sunday the 5th of May. 

Salary: £43,000 - £55,000 depending on how your skills and experience align to the role.

Competitive benefits package: Our people are the heart of our business, and we work hard to support a culture of responsibility and recognition.

Our benefits include:

• Financial – income protection, life assurance, childcare allowance
• Wellbeing - healthcare cash plan, critical illness cover, health checks
• Lifestyle – enhanced parental leave, tech scheme

For our full benefits list please visit: https://www.penguinrandomhousecareers.co.uk/what-we-offer/

Hybrid working:  While our offices across the UK are places to connect, collaborate and celebrate with colleagues, we recognise that flexibility around where you work is just as important. For this role we expect that you will come to our office in London 2-3 days a week.

The recruitment process: You can read about our recruitment process at https://www.penguinrandomhousecareers.co.uk/how-we-hire/

As a Disability Confident Committed organisation, we're part of the offer an interview scheme. This is where disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for the role can opt in to get to the next recruitment stage. There may be some situations where volume of applicants means we can't take all eligible candidates to interview.

We encourage you to tell us about any reasonable adjustments you may need by emailing PRHCareersUK@penguinrandomhouse.co.uk. Remember, you only need to share what you are comfortable to for us to support your request.

Please note, we are not able to accept agency CVs for this role. Any CVs sent speculatively will not be eligible for a fee.

Company: Penguin Books Limited 

Country: United Kingdom 

State/Region: London 

City: London 

Postal Code: SW11 7BW 

Job ID: 270048