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Purpose:

• To provide accounting and financial analysis.
• Maintain financial controls as required.
• To oversee and provide financial forecasts and budgets.
• Management of Finance Team.

Key Deliverables:

• Preparation of monthly Management accounts for business units and group consolidated accounts, including detailed analysis.
• Partnering with key personnel to understand primary cost & revenue drivers and variances.
• Daily liaison with operational and commercial management to understand costs and to provide both challenge and support of financial forecasts & budgets.
• Completion of ongoing financial reviews with division heads outlining and highlighting budget differences and variances.
• Track and report on title investment performance.
• Monitor and report on planned product profitability against actual profitability, by channel, customer, and promotion.
• Month end journals and calculations for accruals, prepayments and various provisions.
• Improve stock performance with timely analysis including stock turnover, profitability, sale or return rates, damages, and obsolescence.
• Analyse costs, pricing, variable contributions, sales results, and the Groups actual performance compared to the business plans.
• Analysis of production work in progress ensuring that jobs are completed in line with production budgets and providing variance analysis.
• Preparation of monthly and quarterly financial information for management and board pack for group board meetings.
• Prepare month end KPI reviews.
• VAT Return completion with full reconciliation.
• Completion of forecasting and annual budgeting.
• Oversee annual audit and liaise with group’s auditors.
• Control of group banking and financing activities, including overseeing group invoice discounting facilities and delivering weekly short/medium term cash forecasts.
• Work with finance teams in business units.
• Ad hoc duties as required.

Skills required:

• Qualified Accountant.
• Strong commercial awareness and business acumen.
• Strong analytical and numerical abilities and a deep understanding of accounting principles.
• Attention to detail.
• Excellent Microsoft Office skills.
• Experience in Sage Intacct or equivalent.
• Excellent communication skills both verbal and written and attention to detail.
• Flexible and able to adapt to busy periods with a proactive and positive attitude.
• Self-motivated and ability to use initiative.
• Ambitious and keen to learn.
• A professional attitude towards business practise.

Closing Date: Thursday 31st Jul 2025 (1 week 5 days from now)

General description:

Reporting to the Production Manager you will have responsibility for managing our production operations from purchase order through to delivery.

Key Responsibilities:

• Managing projects to ensure processes and deadlines are met and problem solve any potential issues.
• Expedite the print production to schedule and cost, inclusive of raising PO’s and ensure the printer is working to the correct specification.
• Progress and chase files, plotters, approvals and advances from Studio, printers and our co-edition customers.
• Collating, checking and sending shipping documents to customers and our accounts team to close orders and send to invoicing.
• Communicate any special requirements to the printer and ensure they are carried out and any additional costs involved are approved.
• Negotiate schedules and simple additional costs with the printer.
• Working with the Production Manager, managing suppliers to meet safety standards and test products where necessary.
• Chasing customers for shipping instructions and carton markings and ensure the printer follows correct guidelines.
• Communicating with 3rd party suppliers in the Far East to ensure customer requirements are met and deliveries are made on time to the relative freight forwarders warehouse.
• Ensure internal database is continually updated.
• Ensure internal control documents are continually updated.
• Work with suppliers to ensure quality standards are met without jeopardising the schedule.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with colleagues, printers and customers.

Skills required:

• Strong numeracy and attention to detail.
• Good level of Microsoft Office skills would be an advantage.
• Excellent communication skills both verbal and written and attention to detail.
• Self-motivated and ability to use initiative.
• Ambitious and keen to learn.
• A professional attitude towards business practise.

Closing Date: Thursday 31st Jul 2025 (1 week 5 days from now)