Finance Analyst

We are seeking a reliable Finance Analyst to work alongside our Finance Manager and commercial stakeholders. This role combines strong financial analysis with the opportunity to shape how AI transforms finance. You will be responsible for managing promotional and marketing accounting, partnering with Sales and Marketing teams, and delivering meaningful financial insight that supports better business decisions. You will be instrumental in ensuring the accuracy and integrity of budgets for our financial planning. If you are detail-oriented, ready for hands-on responsibility, and enjoy improving processes, we encourage you to apply.

This is an exciting opportunity to join an award-winning big-five publisher in a fast-paced, dynamic, and supportive finance team. The Finance team works with each department in the business on budgeting and forecasting revenues and costs, and then tracking performance against these targets by producing management information and analysis, and helping teams with cost control. We support all commercial decisions such as acquiring the rights of the books we publish and negotiating our contractual terms with our customers and suppliers.

Reporting to the Finance Manager – Overheads, International & Promotion, you’ll become a trusted finance partner to our Sales and Marketing teams. This role combines financial control, business partnering, and analysis, while giving you the opportunity to help introduce AI tools and smarter ways of working across Finance. You’ll work with colleagues across the business, giving you excellent exposure and the opportunity to influence how decisions are made. The work you will undertake will have a direct impact on key business decisions both in the short and the long term.

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At Pan Macmillan, we are committed to publishing a wide range of voices that reflect the full breadth of the communities we serve. Joining us means playing an active role in bringing our titles to life as part of a team that champions inclusion at every level. We are dedicated to building a workplace that is as diverse and welcoming as the stories we tell, ensuring all perspectives are celebrated across everything we do. We welcome applications from all individuals, including any age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief. Our efforts to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) are ongoing, and we continually strive to learn and improve. You can read our full Diversity, Equity and Inclusion pledge here .

As a Disability Confident employer, we actively encourage applications from disabled candidates and people with long-term health conditions, aiming to offer an interview to everyone who meets the essential criteria for the role and chooses to apply under the scheme. The essential criteria can be found under our ‘Essential experience, abilities, knowledge and values you’ll need to succeed’ section. Please note, some of our vacancies attract an exceptionally high volume of applications. In these circumstances, to ensure a fair and focused process for everyone, we may need to limit the overall number of interviews. Where this happens, we will look closely at who most closely aligns with the requirements to select the candidates applying under this scheme who best meet the essential criteria, in line with official government guidance. Please remember that you are never required to disclose a disability to us, and you only need to share what you feel comfortable with.

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