Digital Finance Analyst

The job is for someone ideally that has experience in both management accounts and analysis, namely within media/publishing. You'd be joining a vibrant team of analysts in the heart of East London and gather some valuable experience within a growing company and industry.

Client Details

The client is a renowned publishing company based in the heart of East London. They have recently acquired some big name newspapers and due to expansion, there is a need for a junior data analyst to join their team.

Description

The key responsibilities include the following:

• Provide support to the digital finance manager and digital finance director across group, nationals and regional's

• Extracting data for analysis from core systems to build robust reporting (DFP/Google Analytics/Facebook/GL/ASP/BPC)

• Maintenance of digital metric data in SAP BPC

• Business partner with commercial and product & engineering teams to produce KPI reporting on digital performance and variance analysis of monthly revenue and costs

• Ownership of month end management accounts for product and engineering

• Helping to train and mentor a junior analyst

• Creation and maintenance of financial reports (tables/graphs etc) and building excel models as required

• Liaise with the accounting hubs on matters where required

• Involvement in business cases and financial analysis

• Producing the weekly forecast for digital revenue and P&E costs

• Prepare monthly board report for Group Digital and P&E

• Cover work tasks during holidays, sickness and absence - across both functions

Profile

The successful candidate will have the following qualifications and skills:

• Part qualified in CIMA/ACCA (or at least actively studying)
• Advanced Excel, Word and PowerPoint skills (SAP BPC skills preferable)
• Strong interpersonal and decision making skills
• Able to work on projects unsupervised or as part of a team
• Previous 2-3 years' experience in similar finance analyst role preferable
• Knowledge of Media/Publishing industry preferable

Job Offer

The benefits to the candidate include the following:

• Salary up to £40k (may flex for the perfect candidate)
• Study support packaged available for the right candidate (after 6m probation)
• 25 days annual holiday
• Free company gym membership
• Company pension scheme (defined contribution)