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The purpose of this role is to provide support with the financial planning, reporting and analysis across DK’s global business. Additionally, this role will provide support to the DK India finance team.
Key Responsibilities
Budgeting & Forecasting
- Assist with the preparation of the Group budget and forecasts, ensuring accuracy through detailed and analytical review.
- Prepare the Group budget and forecast packs for presentation to the DK board.
- Key support for DK India finance team, assisting with the annual budgeting and quarterly reforecast for DK India.
Reporting
- Completion of month end processes for India and Group functions including reconciliations; preparation of provisions and accruals; and review of overheads.
- Critically analyse the Group P&L and understand variances ensuring accuracy throughout.
- Prepare the monthly Global KPI pack for circulation to the DK and PRH leadership teams.
- Oversee daily sales reporting and monthly global sales estimates to senior management.
- Coordinate recharges to Group territories including central service fee and royalties.
- Support during the annual internal audit and risk management reporting cycle.
Analysis
- Provide support to DK Group territories, dealing with queries including ad hoc support on billing issues or corrections.
- Provide analytical support to DK India finance team.
- Assist the DK Senior Business Analyst and Head of Finance – Group & International on commercial analysis and projects as required.
Key Skills & Knowledge
- Degree qualified (2:1 minimum).
- Strong work ethic and a team player.
- Proven ability to prioritise and proactively manage own workload to tight deadlines.
- Ability to communicate with both financial and non-financial colleagues.
- Ability to analyse, evaluate and clearly report financial data.
- Commercial awareness – the ability to see the broad perspective.
- Strong attention to detail.
- Good verbal and written communication skills.
- Strong Excel skills.
- Knowledge of Business Objects / SAP/ Anaplan would be advantageous.
Relationships
- Reports to the DK Senior Business Analyst
- Close relationships with:
- DK India and other DK Overseas finance teams
- Rest of DK UK finance team
- PRH finance team
- Bertelsmann Accounting Services Team
What does ‘good’ look like
- Attention to detail
- Good looks like: Brings precision to their work and ensures delivery of the highest quality.
- Time management
- Good looks like: Ability to prioritise effectively and complete tasks in a timely manner.
- Resilient and the ability to work under pressure
- Good looks like: An individual who isn’t fazed by setbacks, can maintain a positive outlook, overcome hurdles, and move onto the next idea.
- Engaged and takes ownership
- Good looks like: Take a proactive approach to tasks, can work independently and also collaborate effectively with wider Finance team in the UK and overseas.
- Engaged with the wider company and brings a process-efficiency mind-set
- Good looks like: the ability to spot potential process improvements.
- Flexible and open to change
- Good looks like: the ability to respond flexibly to business change requirements.
- Strong internal and external relationship management skills
- Good looks like: A confident, honest, professional individual who is a strong communicator across all mediums of communication. The individual also knows which form of communication to use when to get the best outcome.
- Works well within a team
- Good looks like: Supports colleagues both in their own team and in other teams, sharing skills and time in the wider business interest, going beyond the norm when asked.
- Respect for colleagues and others
- Good looks like: Always polite and kind, punctual, and considerate of others’ feelings.
DK is committed to building a diverse workforce that reflects the varied communities that read our books across the world. We encourage applications from all individuals, regardless of age, religion, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexuality or social background.
DK supports flexible working and has introduced a new ‘smart-working’ policy with a hybrid approach of working from home and in DK’s office.
The Book Trade Charity offers financial support to people looking to enter the book trade, but who may struggle to afford the costs of attending interviews or undertaking internships. For more information, visit www.booktradeentrysupport.org
About our company
We are the world's leading illustrated publisher and a member of the Penguin Random House division of Bertelsmann, creating cutting-edge design and stunning visual books for the whole family. We are passionate about inspiring curiosity and bring people to books through their thirst for knowledge.
With a global book loving community of over 800 colleagues in the UK, US, Germany, India, China, Canada, Spain and Australia, we produce books in over 100 countries and over 60 languages. Find out more on dk.com.
