Time left to apply End Date: August 27, 2025 (9 days left to apply)
Job requisition id JR104079
Location: London – Hybrid Working Model
Application Deadline: Wednesday 27th August 2025
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Macmillan Education provides world-class content in relevant, engaging, and flexible formats to support lifelong learning for students, teachers, and institutions.
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About The Role
The Education Management Reporting, Planning, and Analysis [MRPA] team supports Macmillan Education’s management with regular and ad-hoc financial information. This 12-month maternity cover involves reporting of financial data, budgeting, forecasting, and advising management on data interpretation and conclusions.
You will be responsible for providing month-end analysis of indirect costs within the UK business, including intra-Group recharges, and partnering with cost centre managers on budgets and forecasts. Supporting presentation of indirect cost budgets/forecasts to senior management and conducting ad hoc analysis as required.
Role Responsibilities:
* Support cost centre managers with budgets/forecasts submission
* Provide consolidated summaries at departmental level and present to heads
* Conduct quarterly review, reporting, and tracking of cost centres, including accruals and ad hoc analysis
* Estimate and report monthly Adjusted Operating Profit
* Review marketing spend monthly and prepare year-end accruals
* Oversee recharges, raise invoices as needed
* Manage bonus accruals for UK entity
* Develop SAP knowledge as a superuser to assist the team
* Assist with invoice coding queries
* Reconcile ISBN data monthly for system loading
* Perform additional ad hoc reporting and analysis
Experience, Skills, and Qualifications:
* Part-qualified accountant (CIMA, ACCA, ACA, or equivalent, preferably with first-time passes)
* Excellent communication skills, able to engage with management levels
* Strong Excel skills
* Highly organized, capable of meeting deadlines
* Accurate with attention to detail; quick grasp of complex recharging models
* Proactive, curious, and takes initiative
* Experience in publishing industry or finance team of a large global business
* Confident with complex systems landscapes
* Experience with SAP and/or Anaplan Workforce Planning
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