Job Description

About the Role
The Assistant Finance Business Partner role will be responsible in supporting the delivery of financial and commercial partnership across the business. You'll provide timely and insightful analysis to guide effective decision-making and contribute to budgeting, forecasting, and strategic planning. Working closely with stakeholders, you will help drive business performance improvements and ensure financial results align with organizational goals.
Key responsibilities in this role will include:

• Support the delivery of the financial results for the financial year, tracking and understanding business risk and mitigation. Provide meaningful analysis of business performance and financial results.
• Develop an understanding of the financial cost base and its drivers and relevant levers, and provide relevant insights, improving business understanding and presenting financial insights and analysis.
• Further develop margin and cost reporting that assists the business in sound decision making and helps to drive continuous improvements.
• Support the delivery of budget and forecast. Develop budget and forecasting models which will ensure a clear understanding of how financial targets will be delivered and the risks.
• Support product launches, improving tracking mechanisms to ensure return on investment.
• Perform ad-hoc business and market analysis to assist in business strategy and decision making and provide day to day business partnering support.
• Build strong relationships with key stakeholders including editorial, product and sales teams
• Work effectively as part of the Academic Finance team, the Academic Division and across the wider OUP group.

We operate a hybrid working policy that requires a minimum of 2 days per week in the Oxford office.
About You
To be successful in this role, you will ideally have/be:
Essential:

• Finance qualification or studying for a professional qualification or equivalent demonstrable experience
• Commitment to continual personal professional development
• Able to analyse data to solve problems and make informed recommendations
• Able to develop and maintain effective working relationships

Desirable:

• Good communication skills
• Drive to work in a business partnering role
• Ability to implement new ideas, with drive to push through

Benefits
We care about work/life balance here at OUP. With this in mind we offer 25 days' holiday that rises with service, plus bank holidays and Christmas closure (3-days) and a 35-hour working week. We are open to discussing flexibility in respect to working patterns, dependent on role. We also have a great variety of active employee networks and societies.
We help make your money go further by contributing to your pension up to 12%, offering loans and savings schemes through our partnership with Salary Finance, in addition to travel to work schemes and access to a wide range of local discounts.
This role comes with the added benefit of a discretionary annual payment.
Please see our Rewards and Recognition page for more information.
Queries
Please contact with any queries relating to this role.
We are committed to supporting diversity in our workforce, and ensuring an inclusive environment where all individuals can thrive. We seek to employ a workforce representative of the markets that we serve and encourage applications from all.

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