Finance Manager

Overview

Your Team:
Our Finance team has a large part to play in the success of our business. We are based across several locations but operate as one team, working together to create a positive, productive, and highly efficient finance department within News UK.

Your Role:
As a key partner to our Broadcasting division, you will provide critical financial and commercial support to our Commercial, Marketing, Editorial, Tech, and Digital departments. Reporting to the Head of Finance, you will drive informed decision‑making, challenge business performance to ensure growth, and develop robust business cases for exciting new products and investments.

• Provide financial and commercial guidance to the Finance Director and Broadcasting management to improve decision‑making processes.
• Influence and challenge stakeholders across the division to ensure efficient revenue and profit growth.
• Lead the budget, five‑year plan, and forecasting processes for all revenues across our National and ROI stations.
• Create stretching yet achievable revenue targets in collaboration with senior stakeholders.
• Prepare insightful presentations and narratives for budget and forecast reviews.
• Maintain a rolling forecast to provide a continuous overview of year‑to‑date revenue performance.
• Own the preparation of weekly audio results and monthly reporting packs, highlighting risks and opportunities.
• Perform deep‑dive analyses into key revenue indicators to identify trends and scenario‑model business decisions.
• Collaborate with the Peterborough finance team to ensure reporting accuracy and process consistency.

• Hold a professional accounting qualification (ACA, ACCA, or CIMA) with 2 to 5 years of post‑qualification experience (PQE).
• Demonstrate a proactive approach to problem‑solving and a strong desire to deliver high‑quality results.
• Apply your commercial awareness and technical accounting skills to manage complex revenue recognition and financial controls.
• Utilize advanced Excel and Google Sheets skills, ideally alongside experience with TM1, to build efficient reporting frameworks.
• Communicate complex financial data clearly and confidently to stakeholders at all levels, including those in non‑finance departments.
• Manage your own workload independently while maintaining high attention to detail and tenacity.
• Show a genuine passion for the media and broadcasting industry, helping to drive process efficiencies across the role.

If you think you have what it takes but don't tick every requirement on the list, please do apply. We recognise that considering someone's potential as well as their experience is a great way to hire. We want to hear from people who have a passion to learn and develop.

News UK is one of the leading media businesses in the UK and Ireland. Our news brands include The Times, The Sunday Times, The Sun, The Sun on Sunday and The TLS. Our national broadcast brands include talk

SPORT, Times Radio and Virgin Radio UK, and we have market‑leading local stations across Ireland. Our world‑famous brands provide news, analysis, opinion and entertainment to almost 40 million people each month. Spanning print and pixel, audio and video, events and experiences, our multi‑format brands are home to a plurality of opinion, representing the diverse communities we serve. Driven by passion, guided by principles and acting with purpose, we exist to promote a fair society, freedom of speech and a little bit of fun.

Rethinking continually the business of storytelling, we represent, reflect and reach the nation, telling the stories that matter. At News UK, we embrace a hybrid work model, currently requiring a minimum of three days per week in the office. This approach fosters collaboration, innovation, and team spirit within our workspace. Certain roles may necessitate additional in‑office days; please discuss this with your recruiter for specific requirements.

Life at News UK is driven by passion, guided by principles and acting with purpose. We represent, reflect and reach the nation, telling the stories that matter. We inform our audiences so that they can make decisions based on trusted information. We…