Finance Business Partner

Description:

At DC Thomson we are a business with a purpose – to make a positive impact on the communities we serve.

We are home to some of the world’s best loved media brands, organised around local news and radio, companionship, kids, advocacy, energy, puzzles and hobbies.

The Courier, The Press & Journal, The Sunday Post, Beano, Stylist, Puzzler, The People’s Friend, My Weekly, Pure Radio, bunkered, Energy Voice, Findmypast and Brightsolid are just some of the brands you might know us for.

Deeply rooted in our communities, we are investing in data, technology and talent to unlock a new level of understanding about what really matters to our customers. This is how we are shaping the future of media.

We’re changing the way we work to create a flexible, collaborative, learning-led culture that draws on expertise from across the organisation to create award-winning content and cultural moments that make audiences want to be part of our communities.

Our HQ is in Dundee and we have bases around the UK employing over 1,200 extraordinarily creative colleagues working in a mix of office/home/hybrid. They’re passionate about being part of the story of so many well-loved brands and they’re crucial to our ambitions for the company.

We’re looking for the best people to join us at DC Thomson, to share their energy, ideas and skills and be part of our story.

To work with the CFO Media and the media leadership team to support and deliver the strategy of the business – with a key focus on protecting profits and driving and enabling growth. To provide financial insight, discipline and partnering for the Media business.

The team is made up of 4 Finance Business Partners structured across our 4 main revenue streams: Subscriptions, Newsstand, Ads/Events/Partnerships and New Product Development. The team will be working closely together to identify internal and external opportunities and flag risks as early as possible.

Responsibilities

• Prepare forecasts and comprehensive budgets on a rolling basis using internal trends analysis and external market insights
• Partner with the business, set up and run effective reforecast and flash processes to identify and address deviations from performance through clear and measurable PIPs – flag risks, mitigations and improvements
• Providing commercial analytical decision support including financial modelling, scenario building, developing dynamic models to play with key levers
• Developing comprehensive insight into P&Ls
• Sense and response as quickly as possible to internal and external factors
• Ensure consistency in revenue and cost allocation assumptions to allow meaningful business wide analysis and comparisons
• Analyse & track internal trends, opportunities, gaps. Identify emerging patterns in revenues/cost/financial measurements
• Partner with the business to maintain & share KPIs aligning financial performance measures with non- financial performance measures to improve business intelligence and support business-wide view of performance
• Support strategies to identify revenue growth/cost savings and adjacency opportunities
• Support and inform the set-up of financial systems, dashboards and financial reporting requirements