Company Description

Informa is a leading academic publishing, business intelligence, knowledge, and events business, creating unique content and connectivity for customers all over the world. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a member of the FTSE 100.  

Taylor & Francis is one of the world’s largest publishers of high-quality, peer reviewed scholarly journals, books, e-books and reference works. We empower learners, thinkers and doers with trusted knowledge that advances research and enriches lives. We bring together diverse people, ideas and opinions to validate and publish the experts, theories and truths that matter. And we’ve been doing this in an unbroken arc since 1798.  

Our purpose is to foster human progress through knowledge.  We strongly believe that this requires us to encourage and examine different ideas and voices, so that any work that meets our exacting levels of quality deserves to be included in our publications. This requires open minds, the opportunity for robust debate, and the courage to defend perspectives that stand up to scrutiny, even if they conflict with our personal beliefs or values. Because that’s the only way to find the best obtainable version of the truth and, ultimately, foster human progress. If you agree, then we’d love to hear from you. 

Job Description

This role is integral in supporting the annual planning and month end reporting processes at T&F ensuring a cohesive approach is taken across all elements of the cycle, managing workflows and ensuring plans are line with the company’s strategic objectives.  You will be responsible for generating executive level insight and analysis by working closely with teams across the business and at Group.

This role is open to candidates based in the UK. You must have the right to live and work in the UK. Taylor & Francis has flexible hybrid working options for how employees can work based on their role. This role will be worked predominantly from home, with approximately 1 day per week to be worked from one of our offices in either Milton Park, Oxfordshire, or from London Blackfriars (or a combination of both). 

Closing date for applications: Friday 12th April 2024. Applications will be shortlisted alongside advertising so you are encouraged to apply at your earliest opportunity. 

Help us progress human progress through knowledge! In this role you will aid in our mission by:

• Maintaining an efficient and effective annual planning process including communicating plans and requirements to key stakeholders
• Maintaining the cadence of the planning cycle for the business ensuring key dates, deliverables and priorities are shared, understood and met
• Supporting the consolidation of T&F Budgets, forecasts and 3YPs and prepare clear, consistent and timely reporting on T&F performance and value metrics
• Designing, developing, delivering, and maintaining best practice documentation of processes and procedures
• Preparing business activity timetabling that can be used as a reference tool for ELT, connecting business plans, strategy, and financial plans.
• Assisting and guiding the T&F Finance team in planning for strategic, budget and forecast processes to ensure rigour in all aspects of the company’s financial planning
• Preparing executive level presentations for the T&F ELT and Group stakeholders
• Assisting with the preparation of the MTR pack to Group, assessing monthly, YTD and YTG performance against forecast, budget and prior year
• Maintaining the risk and ops register ensuring that this holds robust, accurate and up to date information
• Managing ad hoc queries, including preparation of additional ‘one-off’ analysis
• Undertaking analysis work for ad hoc projects, business cases and scenario planning (requirement gathering, functional specification creation, process mapping, preparation of financial models etc.)
• Proactively seeking opportunities to automate processes and to drive process improvements working closely with the Finance Operations team to embed system-based solutions including TM1 modules and PowerBI dashboards

Qualifications

The ideal candidate will have knowledge & experience of:

• A Professional qualification (ACCA, ACA, CIMA or equivalent) or equivalent QBE is essential to success in this role.
• Significant post qualified experience in financial reporting / forecasting / budgeting / business partnering
• Demonstrable SAP and Planning Analytics (TM1) user experience is essential
• Technical awareness of industry and developments in accounting standards that may impact the business
• Strong MS skillset, especially Excel and PowerPoint
• Attention to detail is essential
• Financial modelling and data visualisation skills are essential

Skills and Behaviours Required

• Excellent communication/presentation skills and the ability to maintain strong working relationships
• A high level of numerical and analytical capability with a strong eye for detail
• Experience working in a fast-paced, high growth, technology focused organisation
• Project management experience, particularly around planning multiple workflows, communicating requirements, and tracking progress.
• Storytelling abilities – to be able to pick up key messages and communicate effectively to stakeholders.
• Able to present information in a professional and succinct way using PowerPoint or other presentation software.
• Has a curious and proactive mind-set and keen to understand the ‘why’
• Ability to manage workload in challenging and busy environment. Ability to prioritise and balance multiple and often conflicting requests/timeframes
• An interest in driving finance planning solutions and passionate about data needing to be both accurate and of a high quality to make better decisions
• Commitment to continuous improvement and the ability to drive improvements based on data analysis and evidence-based learning
• Ability to handle and communicate information sensitively and professionally
• Self-starter and problem-solver with the ability to work with minimal supervision. Be hands-on and open to new ways of doing things

Additional Information

This role is open to applicants based in the UK. You must have the right to live and work in the UK. 

What we offer in return:

• 25 days annual leave 
• Company funded single cover private medical insurance as standard
• 4 paid volunteering days annually 
• Additional day off for your birthday each year
• Additional discretionary 3 days off each year to cover the holiday period in December
• Pension contributions
• Seasonal social and charitable events
• Training and development opportunities

Training And Professional Development: 

We’re passionate about ensuring you have all the tools and resources at your fingertips to reach your short and long-term career goals. We’ll support you in your journey by working together on your own bespoke Taylor & Francis Development Plan, ensuring you have the resources, tools, support, and coaching that will get you where you want to be. 

Interview process: 

Once you have submitted your application, we may get in touch with you for an initial screening conversation or ask you to complete a short video interview to enable us to better understand your skills, experience, and motivation. Following this, you will be invited to attend a competency-based interview, either virtually or in person. Typically, we’d then finish the interview process with a final, 2nd stage interview before extending an offer to the successful applicant.  

Taylor & Francis Group an Informa Business 

We want all our candidates to shine in our recruitment process. Please let us know if there is anything we can do to ensure you are able to show us your best self. This could include having the application form in a different format, more time for questions, or anything else – please ask us, we are happy to be flexible! Please contact recruitment@tandf.co.uk  

Being Yourself at Taylor & Francis 

If you’re excited about working with Taylor & Francis to foster human progress through knowledge, we invite you to apply even if your existing skills and experience don’t fit every item listed above. At Taylor & Francis, we are at our best and most successful when colleagues can be themselves and contribute regardless of their identity or background. As a colleague, you will have the opportunity to further innovate and develop in areas that you are passionate about. Our goal is to empower you with the resources, incentives, and flexibility you need to enjoy success at work and to live a healthy, balanced life. 

Taylor & Francis is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We believe in and value diversity of people and thought, fostering a supportive and inclusive environment where all colleagues can learn and succeed as their true selves. Taylor & Francis recruits, develops, and retains colleagues without regard to any protected personal characteristics or other non-merit-based factor. 

We genuinely care about our colleagues, promoting work-life balance, wellbeing, and flexible working. We believe that the skills and experience you bring to Taylor & Francis are invaluable. We want you to have the opportunity to develop your abilities, and to innovate and develop in areas which you are passionate about. To find out more about our business and the great career opportunities please go to our Careers Site: http://www.taylorandfrancisgroup.com/careers 

Or better yet check out our LinkedIn ‘Life’ Page, highlighting our accomplishments, employees, and company culture. It’s also a good way of meeting our recruitment team, who will be happy to advise you on your journey here at T&F. 

https://www.linkedin.com/company/taylor-&-francis-group/life/79e0c27c-afdf-4bbb-84e6-5f8ed5e10bb8/