Job Description

To be a successful candidate, you will be highly skilled and knowledgeable in budgeting, forecasting and strategic planning cycles. You will ideally have previous experience in one or more of these areas: audit, business partnering and excellent understanding of commercial issues.

Responsibilities:

• Manage the budgeting, forecasting and strategic planning cycles;
• Forecast the short term performance of the Company to direct management intervention and resource planning;
• To support the reporting of timely and accurate management and financial information, in compliance with relevant legal and accounting standards, which provide management insight into the running of BMJ;
• To support the provision of advice to the BMJ Executive and BMJ Board on key financial matters;
• Develop a strong understanding of BMJ financially, commercially and operationally together with developing strong relationships with leadership;
• Demonstrate a strong customer focused outlook and develop positive influence amongst the key stakeholders and other support staff around the business through considered communication, collaboration, teamwork and coordination;
• Design, create and deliver a commercially informed approach to sales reporting, allowing quick and effective assessment of pricing, discounting, regional- and sector-specific trends, renewal profiles, sales pipeline and general sales efficacy;
• Establish a commercial framework for assessing and prioritising investment opportunities, working closely with PMO;
• Commercial support and assessment of investment opportunities, including supporting business leads in preparing business cases
• Develop financial models and analysis to support strategic initiatives, commercial contracts, decisions, product performance and also cash flows, with an emphasis on assessing portfolio profitability and a summarised output presentable to non-finance stakeholders;
• Lead regular meetings with stakeholders to discuss variances, challenge and make recommendations to ensure budgets are controlled effectively and developing business risk and opportunity is assessed in financial terms; and
• Invest proactively in cross-team and cross-group working, allowing best practice to be shared and consistency of approach to be improved throughout the wider business.

Qualifications:

• Qualified accountant, ACA, ACCA or CIMA;
• 5-8 years post qualified accountancy experience;
• Degree qualified with strong academics;
• Good understanding of commercial issues;
• Excellent, polished communicator to members of staff at all levels;
• Excellent Excel skills;
• Business partnering experience.

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Qualified accountant, ACA, ACCA or CIMA; • 5-8 years post qualified accountancy experience; • Degree qualified with strong academics; • Good understanding of commercial issues; • Excellent, polished communicator to members of staff at all levels; • Excellent Excel skills; • Business partnering experience.