Commercial Finance Analyst

The Commercial Finance Analyst will be responsible for supporting the Commercial Finance Manager and key business stakeholders through the execution and delivery of efficient, standardised and consistently high quality reporting, planning and analysis to provide News Corp with financial insight to make informed business decisions on performance and future growth opportunities. You will partner with the business in ensuring we are aligned with our strategic direction to drive long term profitability.

**What’s the role?**
- Partner with key stakeholders to ensure the best commercial decisions are made
- Managing Magazine and Content Licensing revenue as well as the costs base.
- Provide insightful and robust reporting detailing financial and non-financial information to key stakeholders
- Prepare and own the monthly financial results, budgets and forecasts
- Develop reporting and recommendations to improve budget management for your portfolio across all expenditure lines
- Look for process and efficiency improvements that will benefit the business and implement in partnership with your stakeholders
- Analyse and explain variances between actual results vs budget and forecast
- Month-end activities including journal entries and accruals
- Monitor financial performance and identify the risks and opportunities
- Develop a consolidated reporting suite of reports for the current divisions with a focus on surfacing market trends and lag indicators
- Ad hoc works as required

**Who are you?**
- CA/CPA qualified
- 3+ years experience in a similar role
- Strong commercial acumen & professional accounting competency
- Excellent financial acumen, with experience in cost management, and partnering & influencing
- Strong analytical, communication, influencing and stakeholder management skills
- Strategic thinker and self-starter with a commercial approach to business
- Resilient with an ability to manage competing deadlines

**What’s in it for you?**
- Collaborative environment
- Opportunity to innovate, challenge the norm and pioneer the way forward
- Variety of work where no two days are the same
- Exposure to national operations and networks
- Make a difference as part of Australia’s most influential media organisation
- Flexible and blended working environment

**Who are we?**
The nation's most influential media organisation, News Corp Australia reaches an unduplicated audience of 16 million Australians every month. We operate over 150 household name brands across print, digital and multimedia and have the largest online news audience in the country, with a bigger digital footprint than Facebook. We are proud to be the greatest storytellers in Australia. Our products are innovative and dynamic, constantly adapting to new challenges and pioneering the way forward to lead the market. A fast paced and ever changing environment requires adequate, robust and reliable business systems and processes which play a vital part in our success.

**What’s next?**
- We know that diversity strengthens our teams and newsrooms as we seek to tell stories that represent the diverse communities of Australia that we serve. Our people make us unique and we all have a story. We encourage people of all ages, backgrounds, races, cultures, religions, sexual orientations, abilities and gender identities to apply. Inclusion is important to us and we want everyone at News to bring their whole-selves to work. If you require any accommodations or adjustments throughout the recruitment process, or would like to outline which pronouns you prefer, please feel free to let us know._