Job Description
Our Finance Teams: Our Finance team has a large part to play in the success of our business. We are based across a few locations, but operate as one team, and work together to create a positive, productive and highly efficient finance department within News UK.
The Team: You will be part of the Accounts Payable team. We are responsible for the payment of all invoices for News UK and Wireless paying for all goods and services. This is a very busy role requiring someone who is personable, used to working in a fast paced environment and prides themselves on attention to detail and accuracy at all times. The team are enthusiastic, motivated and a collaborative group of people, sociable with a strong team spirit.
Day to day you will:
1. Managing a high volume of supplier telephone calls
2. Managing invoice rejections in VIM, liaising with suppliers and the business accordingly
3. Checking of any final demands and reminders received from suppliers
4. Coding of supplier invoices for certain areas of the business
5. Management of key Supplier accounts
6. Preparation of the Urgent Lists
7. Management of various mailboxes - ensuring queries are dealt with on a timely basis
8. Validation in OCR of PO and Non PO Invoices ensuring accuracy at all times - as and when required
9. Raise internal ZL & ZJ journals and document reversals as and when required and pass for checking and input
10. Processing adhoc invoices -Capex, Fast Entry, Foreign and monthly memo’s
11. Input of the Miscellaneous Payment requests
12. Processing of upload accounts eg, SPS, Amex and Commercial
What we are looking for from you:
13. Good excel skills and the ability to learn new systems
14. Accurate and a good attention to detail
15. Experience of working in a fast paced environment
16. Multiskilled to provide cover as and when required
17. We use SAP, VIM & OCR previous experience of using these systems would be usefulbut 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, TalkTV 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 ourDiversity, 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 have12 employee led networks and groups (;t=2s) that support our strategy and connect like minded employees socially.
Benefits
Some of our benefits include:
18. Maternity leave up to 18 weeks full basic salary & paternity leave up to 2 weeks
19. Wide range of training available, plus full LinkedIn Learning access
20. Private medical insurance including coverage for pre-existing conditions
21. Discounted gym memberships, free ClassPass at Home, weekly virtual yoga classes
22. ‘Bikes for Work’ and ‘Electric Car’ scheme
23. Up to 60% discount on Harper Collins books
24. 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
25. Access to wellbeing benefits such as EAP, physio/massage and counselling
26. A generous pension scheme with employer contributions of up to 5%
27. 25 days holiday, plus bank holidays and up to 4 volunteering days per year
We want to ensure that everyone we meet has the opportunity to perform to their best when applying for a role. Please let us know, at any stage, whether you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, and we will do our best to accommodate.