Corporate Reporting Accountant
15 Month FTC
Peterborough (Hybrid working 3 days in office)

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)
  

What we’re looking for from you:

• 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)
  

We are News UK: One of the leading media businesses in the UK and Ireland. Our newsbrands include The Times, The Sunday Times, The Sun, The Sun on Sunday and The TLS. Our national broadcast brands include talkSPORT, Times Radio, Talk and Virgin Radio UK, and we have market-leading local radio 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 multiplatform brands are home to a plurality of opinion, representing the diverse communities we serve. News UK is wholly owned by News Corp.

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 on trusted information.

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.

Benefits

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
  

We want to ensure that everyone has the opportunity to perform to their best when applying for a role. If you would like to receive any information in a different way or for us to do anything differently to support you apply for any of our roles please contact us on [email protected].

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