Finance Business Partner

Finance Business Partner – International Education  

Salary: £36,000 – £43,400 per annum

Location: Cambridge, Hybrid

Contract: Permanent, Full time (35 hours per week)

We are Cambridge University Press & Assessment, a world-leading academic publisher and assessment organisation and a proud part of the University of Cambridge.

The International Education Finance team support Cambridge International Product Group. An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic accountant to work closely with our business managers focusing on financial performance of products and services and supporting the divisions that deliver our exam series and publishing resources.

About the role   

You will join the International Education Finance Business Partners Team, who provides information, analysis, and advice to support decision making at Group, Business Unit and budget holder level. You also will be pivotal to providing analysis and input to the production of budget and forecasts, contributing to the Group planning process.

Providing a finance business partnering service to International Education business area, you will support and advise 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 strong working relationships with business colleagues. Collaborating seamlessly, you will ensure budgets are managed appropriately and the requirements of the financial cycle are complied with. In addition to formulating precise budgets and forecasts that accurately reflect the plans of the business area, you will influence strategic decisions by providing insightful financial analysis.

Working with and developing costing and pricing models to support accurate financial analysis of products and services, you will act as a true business partner, enabling the business area to achieve.

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.

Alongside your excellent verbal and written communication skills, you will be able to use Excel to an advanced level. This proficiency empowers you to 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.

Experience: 

• Demonstrate experience of supporting and challenging operational teams
• Finance Business Partnering including preparation of monthly reports as well as costing/pricing work.
• Experience of management accounts or Finance Business partnering in a global organisation is desirable.
• Project work, including understanding of contract terms, beneficial.

• Data modelling including working knowledge of Power Query and Power BI is desirable.
• Successfully producing detailed and accurate work to deadlines.
• Good working knowledge of finance procedures and experience of using a major finance computer system.

If you would like to know more about this opportunity and what will make you successful, please see the full job description attached to the bottom of this vacancy on our careers site.

Rewards and 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:

• 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• Private medical and Permanent Health Insurance
• Discretionary annual bonus
• Group personal pension scheme
• Life assurance up to 4 x annual salary
• 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 Sunday 31st December 2023. We will interview suitable candidates as and when they apply, so please do not delay putting your application in. We reserve the right to close the campaign early once we have received sufficient applications for the role.

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 everyone has a voice, and where we learn continuously to improve together. Ensuring that everyone feels they belong is essential to who we are, and to the contribution we make to society and our planet.

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.

Finance Business Partner