Turnitin, LLC Hiring for Finance Business Partner – Center Functions (UK Remote) Job at Newcastle upon Tyne, England Full Time

When you join Turnitin, you’ll be welcomed into a company that is a recognized innovator in the global education space. For more than 20 years, Turnitin has partnered with educational institutions to promote honesty, consistency, and fairness across all subject areas and assessment types. Over 16,000 academic institutions, publishers, and corporations use our services: Gradescope by Turnitin, iThenticate, Turnitin Feedback Studio, Turnitin Originality, Turnitin Similarity, ExamSoft, and ProctorExam.

Turnitin has offices in Australia, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Mexico, the Netherlands, the Philippines, Ukraine, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Our diverse community of colleagues are all unified by a shared desire to make a difference in education. Come join us, and let’s make change together.

Supporting Center function senior management, you must ensure that they have visibility and insights into their areas of the business. You will be working closely with the CFO, CPeopleO, & CCO and their teams, as well as being a key contributing member of the Turnitin Finance team.

Business Partnering is a key element to the role and also involves owning the P&L, budgeting, forecasting, balance sheet transactions for your area of the business/stream(s). You will be providing key commentaries and analysis to support strategic decision making and assist the Senior Director of FP&A to manage the overall business. You will also ensure consistency and sharing of knowledge across business streams, working closely with other Finance Business Partners within Turnitin globally.

This role will allow the successful candidate to be a part of a growing business, with financial, operational and commercial exposure. You will add value through supporting operational performance, delivering on short and long term initiatives.

It is imperative that the successful candidate has recent experience of working as a Finance Business Partner.

Key Accountabilities

• Provide a high-quality end to end financial partner service to the business, by providing expert financial advice and challenging the management team to support decision making that sustains the delivery of strategic and operational planning

• Improving business performance through productivity and efficiency measures

• Produce and co-ordinate period management accounts (P&L and capex), analysis and commentary and present to Senior Director FP&A, whilst informing the business of monthly performance/trends and actions to improve

• Preparation and ownership of monthly forecasting and management reports as part of the wider FP&A team

• Providing value-adding financial insight, support, and challenge by building effective working relationships at all levels, including senior managers and with other departments in the business

• Supporting stakeholders and senior management with financial analysis to help aid decision making

• Identify trends to project the full year including recommendations on opportunities/ mitigating risks and a clear go-to for senior management for financial recommendations and analysis

• Lead the Annual Budget and Quarterly Forecast process for your stream(s) in line with the overall Finance timeline. Planning and delivering a process that is timely and accurate, as well as providing healthy challenge; understand key drivers for costs, across all locations/ sites/projects

• Maintain and enhance financial controls ensuring accuracy and robustness of reporting and continue to develop reporting for this business area

• Continually identify and implement improvements to business processes to increase efficiency and ensure all costs are recorded accurately in the accounts.

• Support ad hoc requests for analysis and information from Senior Director FP&A and other Senior Managers & Executive within the business

The Successful Applicant

An ambitious individual with drive and a commercial edge. You will be comfortable working in a fast-paced environment willing to be hands-on, with the desire to immerse yourself in the operational side of the business. You will proactively seek opportunities to raise standards, and drive continual improvement throughout the business. The successful candidate will meet the following requirements:

• 8+ years of relevant work experience in a Finance department

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, Engineering and/or MBA preferred

• Strong Excel skills and aptitude for using/suggesting other reporting tools and software

• Attention to detail, accuracy, resourcefulness, and ability to follow-through

• Excellent problem solving and analytical skills

• Self-starter with ability to work cross-functionally and as well as independently

• Strong team player and ability to learn quickly

• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and manage tight deadlines

Additional Information

Our Mission is to ensure the integrity of global education and meaningfully improve learning outcomes.

Our Values underpin everything we do.

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  Customer Centric – We realize our mission to ensure integrity and improve learning outcomes by putting educators and learners at the center of everything we do.
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  Passion for Learning – We seek out teammates that are constantly learning and growing and build a workplace which enables them to do so.
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  Integrity – We believe integrity is the heartbeat of Turnitin. It shapes our products, the way we treat each other, and how we work with our customers and vendors.
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  Action & Ownership – We have a bias toward action and empower teammates to make decisions.
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  One Team – We strive to break down silos, collaborate effectively, and celebrate each other’s successes.
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  Global Mindset – We respect local cultures and embrace diversity. We think globally and act locally to maximize our impact on education.

Seeing Beyond the Job Ad

At Turnitin, we recognize it’s unrealistic for candidates to fulfill 100% of the criteria in a job ad. We encourage you to apply if you meet the majority of the requirements because we know that skills evolve over time. If you’re willing to learn and evolve alongside us, join our team!

Turnitin, LLC is committed to the policy that all persons have equal access to its programs, facilities and employment. We strongly encourage applications from people of color, persons with disabilities, women, and the LGBTQ+ community, regardless of age, gender, religion, marital or veterans status.