Corporate Reporting Accountant - 15 Month FTC Login to Save this vacancy

Your role: We have a fantastic opportunity for a Corporate Reporting Accountant to join our Finance team at News UK Peterborough. Acting as a support function to the Finance team you will be a key contact for our auditors and News Corp also supporting more junior members of the team through training and mentoring.

Your Team: This will sit within the Corporate Reporting Team who report financial submissions for News UK and its subsidiaries to the US parent company using Onestream (training will be provided).

Day to day you will:

• Load key reporting packs for submission to US Corporate for News UK and its Subsidiaries including preparation of analytical reviews.


• Reparation of key Financial Statements for News UK and its Subsidiaries to agreed timetables and the reconciliation process to management reporting


• You will be a key contact in the management of the audit processes across the group supporting the finance managers to deliver requests timely


• Develop key relationships across Finance to ensure deadlines are met


• Completion and ownership of a number complex reconciliations


• Review of reconciliations prepared by analysts within the team


• Perform annual SOX testing on key business processes


• Assume responsibility for the US Tax compliance reporting (with support from the Tax and wider corporate reporting team), To do this, we believe our employees must represent different backgrounds, perspectives and experiences. We strive to maximise and encourage every individual's potential and ensure everyone feels valued. We support this through our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Strategy, which focuses on three main priorities - attracting talent from a wider, more representative pool, developing equity programmes to drive better representation in our leadership, and ensuring diversity and inclusivity in our workforce as well as the journalism and content we produce. We also currently have 12 employee led networks and groups that support our strategy and connect like minded employees socially.
  
  Effective time management


• Ability to drive process improvements


• Ability to build good business relationships


• ACA/ACCA/CIMA Qualified


• Experience in Audit management


• Experience in SOX testing (not essential)
  
  Some of our benefits include:


• Maternity leave up to 18 weeks full basic salary & paternity leave up to 2 weeks


• Wide range of training available, plus full LinkedIn Learning access


• Private medical insurance including coverage for pre-existing conditions


• Discounted gym memberships, free ClassPass at Home, weekly virtual yoga classes


• 'Bikes for Work' and 'Electric Car' scheme


• Up to 60% discount on Harper Collins books


• Access to exclusive events and competitions with exciting brands such as talkSPORT, Virgin Radio UK & The Times. Weekly virtual panel chats with top journalists and celebrities


• Access to wellbeing benefits such as EAP, physio/massage and counseling


• A generous pension scheme with employer contributions of up to 5%


• 25 days holiday, plus bank holidays and up to 4 volunteering days per year