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About the Role
As our new Senior Finance Business partner, you will provide high quality and proactive finance business partnering to the global sales and marketing function and their management team to achieve annual and strategic objectives, and will provide UK business partnering support for ELT branches (in Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Spain, Turkey and Japan), liaising with Group Finance and providing oversight of the consolidated financial statements.
Duties will include:
Working with the Sales management team, providing insight into business performance and recommending actions to improve performance and achieve business goals
Working alongside the Sales management team to devise and deliver strategy, including appropriate allocation of resources and targeted investment.
Inputting into strategic planning to provide challenge and support in setting business goals, delivering 5YP plan, budget and forecasts. Provide a clear understanding of how financials will be delivered, and clear understanding of risks.
Ensuring all major commercial decisions taken within the business are done with sound commercial judgement, establishing clear assumptions and robust analysis in the decision-making process.
Reviewing the consolidated ELT Branch performance, including budgeting, forecasting, and analysis of financial results to recommend optimal allocation of resource.
Overseeing branch audit and ICF recommendations
Identifying opportunities to share and implement best practice across ELT branches by improving communication between branches and to/from the UK.
Performing ad-hoc business and market analysis to aid effective decision-making.
Working effectively as part of the ELT and the wider OUP Finance team.
We operate a hybrid working policy that requires a minimum of 2 days per week in the Oxford office.
About You
Experience of an Operational Finance role within a complex international organization
Experience in commercial or business partnering role
Initiative and ability to successfully implement new ideas, with drive to push through
Able to analyse data to solve problems and make informed and insightful business recommendations pointing management towards opportunity for value addition
Demonstrates gravitas and ability to clearly communicate compelling messages to management teams
Able to coach and mentor finance professionals in their development
Able to develop and maintain effective working relationships at all levels within an organisation
Able to travel internationally as required
A professional finance qualification is desirable but not essential
Benefits
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.
We are committed to supporting diversity in our workforce, and ensuring an inclusive environment where all individuals can thrive. We seek to employ a workforce representative of the markets that we serve and encourage applications from all.
