Accounts Clerk - 15 Month FTC

Your 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.

Day to day you will:

• Responsibility for lineage and picture payments
• Responsibility for uploading all Broadcasting Talent 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
• Monthly Editorial visits to the London Office

What we’re looking for from you: Proactive, focused, with a can-do attitude, enthusiasm, a good team player with the ability to work to weekly deadlines but also manage your own workload effectively. Strong communications skills and positive work ethics.

• 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 useful but not essential
• Ability to build and maintain good working relationships with a variety of stakeholders

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, TalkTV 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: At News UK our people are our heartbeat - they are the driving force behind our brands and we want to enable people to thrive. Some of us work flexibly, in many different ways. We encourage you to talk to us about the flexibility you would like. Many of us work in a hybrid way between one of the News UK & Ireland offices and remotely.

We champion diversity and inclusion, we strive to maximise and encourage every individual’s potential and ensure everyone feels valued. We support this through our Diversity Board, D&I strategy & training, creating more diverse content and our intern and apprenticeship programmes. We also have 13 employee-led networks.

We take pride in looking after our amazing talent at News UK supporting the Health and Wellbeing of our staff.

In addition we also offer:

• A generous pension scheme with employer contributions of up to 5%;
• 25 days holiday and up to 4 volunteering days per year; (pro-rated)
• Maternity leave up to 18 weeks full basic salary & paternity leave up to 2 weeks;
• Wide range of training available, plus full LinkedIn Learning access.

We want to ensure that everyone we meet has the opportunity to perform to their best when interviewing, so feel free to let us know, at any stage, whether you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, and we will do our best to accommodate.

News UK is an official partner of the Journalism Diversity Fund, founder of the Journalism and Disability Forum, and proud member of the Valuable 500. At News UK, we will continue to promote an inclusive and diverse workplace, to help people with visible and non visible disabilities create careers in media and aim to make our content accessible to all.