Assistant Finance Business Partner

Oxford University Press; Oxford; Hybrid; GBP 35,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading educational publisher is seeking an Assistant Finance Business Partner to help deliver financial insights and support strategic planning. You will analyze business performance, develop budget models, and build relationships with stakeholders. The ideal candidate has a finance qualification or equivalent experience and strong analytical skills. This role offers a competitive salary of £35,000 - £40,000 and a hybrid work policy requiring a minimum of 2 days per week in the Oxford office.

Benefits

25 days holiday plus bank holidays

Pension contribution up to 12%

Travel to work schemes

Access to local discounts

Discretionary annual payment

Qualifications

• Finance qualification or studying for a professional qualification or equivalent demonstrable experience.
• Commitment to continual personal professional development.
• Ability to analyze data to solve problems and make informed recommendations.

Responsibilities

• Support the delivery of financial results for the financial year.
• Develop understanding of financial cost base and its drivers.
• Further develop margin and cost reporting.
• Support the delivery of budget and forecast.
• Perform ad-hoc business and market analysis.
• Build strong relationships with key stakeholders.

Skills

Data analysis

Business partnering

Relationship management

Problem-solving

Budgeting

Education

Finance qualification or equivalent experience

Job description

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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:

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

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.

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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.

£35,000 - £40,000 dependent on skills and experience

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