Job Title: Finance Business Partner
Contract: Permanent – Full time (35 hours per week)
Salary: £34,500 - £44,850
Location: Triangle Building, Shaftesbury Avenue, Cambridge (Hybrid)
We are Cambridge University Press & Assessment, a world-leading academic publisher and assessment organisation, and a proud part of the University of Cambridge.
About the role
Providing a finance business partnering service to English Group, you will be a part of an enthusiastic team to deliver high quality financial support. You will give support and advice to a wide range of colleagues, with the accountability for the delivery of insightful, accurate and timely outputs, helping to deliver strong financial performance.
With excellent relationship management skills, you will create effective working relationships with business colleagues and work with them to ensure budgets are managed appropriately and the requirements of the financial cycle are complied with. You will draw up budgets and forecasts that accurately reflect the plans of the business area and influence business decisions through the production of insightful financial analysis.
Working with and developing models and reports to support accurate financial analysis of products and services, you will act as a true business partner, enabling the business area to achieve their results.
Our finance function is transforming in parallel, and this is an opportunity to bring experience and new ideas to help drive and accelerate our transformation, with a particular emphasis on systems and tools.
About you
You will already hold or be working towards completion of a professional accounting qualification (CIMA, ACCA or equivalent), and have demonstrable experience providing a business partnering service and have the skills and ability to provide insight into business performance.
With excellent verbal and written communication skills, you will be able to use Excel to an advanced level, manipulate financial data, and produce accessible outputs for a wide range of stakeholder groups. Good time management skills are essential, as is the ability to apply relevant accounting standards appropriately.
With a high level of numeric reasoning, you will be able to display an aptitude for problem solving and decision making, while understanding when to refer queries to a higher level.
Rewards & benefits
We will support you to be at your best in work and to live well outside of it. In addition to competitive salaries, we offer a world-class, flexible rewards package, featuring family-friendly and planet-friendly benefits including:
1. 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays
2. Private medical and Permanent Health Insurance
3. Discretionary annual bonus
4. Group personal pension scheme
5. Life assurance up to 4 x annual salary
6. Green travel schemes
We are a hybrid working organisation, and we offer a range of flexible working options from day one. We expect most hybrid-working colleagues to spend 40-60% of their time at their dedicated office or location. We will also consider other work arrangements if you wish to work more flexibly or require adjustments due to a disability.
Ready to pursue your potential? Apply now.
We review applications on an ongoing basis, with a closing date for all applications being April 6th 2025 although we may close it earlier if suitable candidates are identified. Interviews are scheduled to take place on w/c April 21st 2025.
Please note that successful applicants will be subject to satisfactory background checks including DBS due to working in a regulated industry.
Why join us
Joining us is your opportunity to pursue potential. You'll belong to a collaborative team that's exploring new and better ways to serve students, teachers and researchers across the globe – for the benefit of individuals, society and the world. Sharing our mission will inspire your own growth, development and progress, in an environment which embraces difference, change and aspiration.
Cambridge University Press & Assessment is committed to being a place where anyone can enjoy a successful career, where it's safe to speak up, and where we learn continuously to improve together. We welcome applications from all candidates, regardless of demographic characteristics (age, disability, educational attainment, ethnicity, gender, marital status, neurodiversity, religion, sex, gender identity and sexual identity), cultural, or social class/background.
We believe better outcomes come through diversity of thought, background and approach. We welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and communities, actively seeking to employ people from a wide range of different communities.
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