Junior Finance Manager; FTC

Job Description

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: This is a Project role supporting the Head of finance with the implementation of our new revenue recognition processes and to improve and drive efficiencies in our accrued/deferred revenue reconciliations.

Day to day You Will

• Experience using SAP S/4 HANA with the ability to investigate transactions, analyse financial postings and support the accuracy of revenue recognition.
• Identify opportunities to strengthen revenue recognition controls and accuracy of month end reporting.
• Design and implement a standard reconciliation process for all revenue‑related balance sheet accounts.
• Identify historic accounting issues and recommend appropriate corrective action.
• Work with stakeholders across Finance and commercial teams to resolve outstanding items.
• Ensure reconciliations are fully supported and audit ready whilst maintaining strong financial control throughout
• Assist with month end close activities when required.
• Support month end balance sheet reviews and provide clear commentary on movements.
• Collaborate with the wider finance team to ensure reporting accuracy and process consistency.

What we’re looking for from you

• Experience delivering finance process improvements, documenting and implementing financial control.
• Curious and naturally inquisitive.
• Strong problem solving ability.
• Organised and methodical
• Hold a professional accounting qualification (ACA, ACCA, or CIMA) with 0 to 2 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.
• Manage your own workload independently while maintaining high attention to detail and tenacity.

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 talkSPORT, 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

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 upon trusted information.

We represent, reflect and reach the nation, telling the stories that matter most. To ensure these stories resonate with as broad an audience as possible, it is essential that our organisation reflects the diversity of the people we reach. Whether through age, gender, ethnicity, disability, social class or sexuality, we are committed to representing the rich variety of voices that make up our society.

And we champion a culture where everyone has the opportunity to contribute and thrive as we continue to innovate and drive long term sustainable growth. This is done through…