About the Role
The Senior Finance Business Partner will be a key strategic and operational role, reporting directly to the Commercial Finance Director. This role will establish close working relationships with the Chief Operating Officer (COO) and their leadership team, ensuring high-quality financial insight, accountability, and governance across the COO department.
The Senior Finance Business Partner will focus on both revenue and cost streams within the COO remit, overseeing areas including Print Subscription & Circulation revenue, Technology, Newsprint, Production Establishment Opex costs, and CAPEX.
Key Responsibilities
- Build strong working relationships with the COO and their leadership team to ensure alignment on financial objectives.
- Develop and maintain a high-quality suite of reporting and management information (MI) to provide transparency and valuable insights into revenue and cost streams within the COO department.
- Oversee the financial management of key areas, including Print Subscription & Circulation revenue, Technology, Newsprint, Production Establishment Opex costs, and all CAPEX expenditures.
- Lead and develop team members, setting objectives, promoting best practices, and fostering professional growth.
- Take ownership of multiple balance sheets, ensuring high-quality reconciliations with detailed insights and narratives to support the closing position.
- Partner with stakeholders to provide valuable insights by identifying risks and opportunities and making recommendations to support informed business decisions.
- Conduct thorough analyses of financial movements and variances, reviewing key P&L and balance sheet items.
- Produce detailed weekly and monthly financial reports to monitor performance.
- Deliver high-quality financial outputs, including month-end reporting, forecasts, budgets, and long-term planning (3-5 years).
- Create financial models and analyses to support strategic and tactical initiatives.
- Drive standardisation of reporting across the COO, ensuring MI is transparent, accessible, and actionable.
- Instil a culture of financial governance and regulatory compliance, promoting disciplined risk-taking and accountability.
- Review COO contracts in compliance with company terms, conditions, and financial controls.
- Ensure all costs and revenues are accurately captured according to company policies and internal guidelines.
- Apply rigour, discipline, and critical financial analysis to all business activities and reporting to ensure accuracy and reliability.
- Lead and support initiatives for the continuous improvement of accounting processes and internal controls.
Essential Skills
- ACA, ACCA qualified
- Solid experience with Financial Control and Balance Sheet management
- Strong communication skills and ability to work across the business, both with financial and non-financial partners.
- Advanced Excel Skills
- Strong leadership skills in order to influence and guide the leadership team effectively
- Ability to think creatively: excellent problem-solving abilities and adept at using different skill-sets to get things done
- Proactive, open approach
Benefits
The nature of our industry means life at the Telegraph Media Group is fast-paced, demanding, and interesting. We also want it to be rewarding for everyone who works here by creating a suite of benefits that contribute to lifestyle choices and leisure activities. From dynamic working opportunities, medical cover, and parental leave (six months fully paid maternity leave and enhanced paternity/partner leave), to life assurance and season ticket loans, you can choose from a range of flexible benefits, designed to support your lifestyle and help you achieve a healthy work-life balance.
Training and development
With support from your manager and colleagues, you’ll also have access to a variety of training and development opportunities through The Academy. Covering a range of personal and professional skills, our courses enable you to develop an enjoyable and rewarding career.
Our commitment to inclusion
At Telegraph Media Group, we foster a diverse and inclusive workplace and we are committed to building a team that reflects a wide variety of skills, perspectives and backgrounds. We believe in equality of opportunity and welcome candidates from all backgrounds, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief.
We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer as part of the government’s Disability Confident Scheme. If you are disabled or have a long-term health condition and would like support in applying for any of our roles or if you require any reasonable adjustments in the recruitment process with us, please make us aware.
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