Senior Commercial Finance Business Partner
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We are the world’s largest university press. That means we serve the academic community as no other publisher can. We work in partnership with institutions and learned societies to bring a world of knowledge to the fingertips of students and researchers worldwide.
The goal is impact. Together with our academic communities, we curate and seamlessly connect together the ideas that push their fields forward, so they can learn from them, add to them, and continue a virtuous cycle of scholarship.
And because we are a part of the academic community and guided in everything we do by our mission, we re-invest in our people, our publishing, and the world-leading research institution of which we are part.
About the Role
You will act as finance business partner supporting two business units (Oxford Languages and Music) and the Academic Divisional marketing function. In this capacity, you will work extensively with the business leadership, providing financial and commercial support and sharing in a collective responsibility for the delivery of the turnover, surplus and strategic objectives of the business.
In addition, you will provide support to the Finance Director on Divisional initiatives as required and will be a member of the Academic Finance Leadership Team.
Key duties of the role will include:
* Delivery of financial results: Ensure that Turnover and Surplus budgets are on track or ahead of target. Review of product mix, customer mix, pricing to ensure trading margins are also on target.
* Definition and delivery of strategy: Collaborate with leadership to define, develop and clearly articulate strategic priorities. Develop appropriate KPIs ensuring measurement and execution against them.
* Planning, budgeting and forecasting: Delivery of a quality and timely strategy, five-year plan and budget for each area.
* Commercial Support: Provide forward looking commercial support, provide sound commercial advice on business issues and develop appropriate lead indicators to better illustrate business performance.
* Commercial Support – Projects: Prepare investment appraisals using appropriate financial frameworks, ensuring alignment with longer-term priorities, develop benefit tracking to demonstrate Return on Investment for investments and marketing spend.
* Commercial Finance Leadership: work as a member of business unit leadership teams to develop / implement strategy, rapidly evaluate business proposals in a dynamic business area and optimise financial outcomes.
We operate a hybrid working policy that requires a minimum of 2 days per week in the Oxford office.
About You
* Financially numerate with strong Excel skills
* Experience in a commercial or business partnering role
* A positive team player, intellectually curious and keen to add value
* Familiarity with SAP an advantage
* A confident and intelligent communicator, able to communicate complex financial matters in a way that is understood at all levels.
* Effective working in a matrix, managing a complex workload with multiple deadlines and stakeholders
* Professionally discrete and trustworthy
We care about work/life balance here at OUP. With this in mind we offer 25 days’ holiday that rises with service, plus bank holidays and Christmas closure (3-days) and a 35-hour working week. We are open to discussing flexibility in respect to working patterns, dependent on role. We also have a great variety of active employee networks and societies.
We help make your money go further by contributing to your pension up to 12%, offering loans and savings schemes through our partnership with Salary Finance, in addition to travel to work schemes and access to a wide range of local discounts.
This role comes with the added benefit of private medical insurance and a discretionary annual management bonus.
Please see our Rewards and Recognition page for more information.
Seniority level
* Seniority level
Mid-Senior level
Employment type
* Employment type
Full-time
Job function
* Job function
Finance
* Industries
Book and Periodical Publishing
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