Contributions Lineage Clerk

at  News UK

Contributions Lineage Clerk
Location:
Peterborough
Department:
Finance
Salary Details:
Not Specified
Advertising End Date:
09 Feb 2025
Job Description
Department Overview
Our Finance Teams: Our Finance team has a large part to play in the success of our business. We are based across a few locations, but operate as one team, and work together to create a positive, productive and highly efficient finance department within News UK.
The Team: The Expenses and Contributions team are a very busy team who are responsible for the payment of all lineage and pictures which appear in print and online for all publications covering the UK, Ireland and Sun.com in the US. Main focus for this role is ensuring accuracy when allocating lineage and picture payments and dealing with queries with the Business and Contributors concisely and professionally. This is a very busy role and requires someone who is personable and used to working in a fast paced environment, who has strong prioritisation and leadership skills. The team are an enthusiastic, motivated and collaborative group of people, sociable with a strong team spirit.
Role Objectives
+ Responsibility for lineage and picture payments
+ Maintain payment models used for lineage & pictures
+ Liaising with Editorial desks daily to resolve payment queries
+ Maintaining good working relationships with key stakeholders
+ Work closely with Commissioning Editors to ensure smooth payment process
+ Assist Finance Analyst with data queries
+ Reporting
+ Managing various mailboxes
+ Adhoc queries / duties
Key Skills
+ Good excel skills and the ability to learn new systems
+ Accurate and a good attention to detail
+ Experience of working in a fast paced environment
+ Multiskilled across Editorial and Broadcasting to provide cover as and when required
+ We use SAP, ECS and TM1 previous experience of using these systems would be usefulbut not essential
Key Behaviours
+ Passionate about the work you do, embracing every opportunity to do your best work
+ Principled in the way you go about your role and the decisions you make
+ Purposeful with a strong desire to achieve and deliver work to a high standard
+ Proactive and curious
+ Good communication skills
+ Ability to build and maintain good working relationships with a variety of stakeholders
We offer a flexible working arrangement where employees are expected to be in the office a minimum of three days per week. For the remaining two days, there is the option to work remotely if desired.
We are News UK : One of the leading media businesses in the UK and Ireland. Our newsbrands include The Times, The Sunday Times, The Sun, The Sun on Sunday and The TLS. Our national broadcast brands include talkSPORT, Times Radio, Talk and Virgin Radio UK, and we have market-leading local radio stations across Ireland. Our world-famous brands provide news, analysis, opinion and entertainment to almost 40 million people each month. Spanning print and pixel, audio and video, events and experiences, our multiplatform brands are home to a plurality of opinion, representing the diverse communities we serve. News UK is wholly owned by News Corp.
Life at News
Driven by passion, guided by principles and acting with purpose. We represent, reflect and reach the nation, telling the stories that matter. We inform our audiences so that they can make decisions based on trusted information.
To do this, we believe our employees must represent different backgrounds, perspectives and experiences. We strive to maximise and encourage every individual’s potential and ensure everyone feels valued. We support this through ourDiversity, Equity and Inclusion Strategy (https://www.news.co.uk/more-than-the-news/diversity-inclusion/) , which focuses on three main priorities – attracting talent from a wider, more representative pool, developing equity programmes to drive better representation in our leadership, and ensuring diversity and inclusivity in our workforce as well as the journalism and content we produce. We also currently have12 employee led networks and groups (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMCi-KiMlL4&t=2s) that support our strategy and connect like minded employees socially.
Benefits
Some of our benefits include:
+ Maternityleave up to 18 weeks full basic salary &paternityleave up to 2 weeks
+ Wide range oftrainingavailable, plus full LinkedIn Learning access
+ Private medical insuranceincluding coverage for pre-existing conditions
+ Discounted gym memberships, free ClassPass at Home, weekly virtual yoga classes
+ ‘Bikes for Work’and ‘Electric Car’ scheme
+ Up to 60% discount on Harper Collins books
+ Access to exclusive events and competitions with exciting brands such as talkSPORT, Virgin Radio UK & The Times. Weekly virtual panel chats with top journalists and celebrities
+ Access towellbeing benefitssuch as EAP, physio/massage and counselling
+ A generouspensionscheme with employer contributions of up to 5%
+ 25 daysholiday, plus bank holidays and up to 4volunteeringdays per year
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