Programmatic and Finance Commercial Lead

Location: dmg::media Headquarters – London
Position: Permanent 

Package Description

Our benefits package increases the longer you’ve been with us. Here’s what to expect:

• 25 days’ holiday (increasing by 1 per year up to a total of 30)
• Upon joining you will be automatically enrolled onto the Pension Plan at the minimum level of 5% employee contribution, 3% Company contribution. 
• Life cover under the Pension Plan 4x your basic salary.
• DMGT Discounts (for discounts on online shopping, vouchers, and reloadable cards)
• Subsidised canteen
• Onsite gym (Northcliffe House only)
• Onsite nurse and GP clinics (Northcliffe House only)
• Our Employee Assistance Programme
• Discounted dining cards

Plus many other benefits….

Main Responsibilities

Reporting to the CFO, the purpose of this role is to partner with the Mail Online business leaders to provide high quality commercial challenge and business partnering.  Key accountabilities include: 

• Business partner in a pro-active, commercially astute manner – using your expertise in digital media and knowledge of digital revenue models to understand key performance drivers and to interpret risks and opportunities in the relevant industry context; to build strong relationships, trust and credibility with senior business stakeholders; to be the voice of finance, supporting, challenging and advising on commercial opportunities and issues.
• Provide valuable insight and advice to the commercial teams – Work alongside business line and strategy leaders to model scenarios and advise on future opportunities and deals.
• Drive the evolution of management information and analysis – deliver high quality, timely and insightful management information to the business; develop the financial acumen of the digital business leadership; partner with the Business Intelligence Unit to drive improvements to management information and business intelligence tools.
• Contribute to strategy through the development of budgets, forecasts and business plans –provide commercial and financial leadership and analytical support to help shape business activity at a strategic and operational level; model scenarios, advise on key assumptions and trade-offs and support the alignment of resources to strategic priorities; drive the simplification and automation of financial modelling. Interpret and challenge performance trends versus budgets and forecasts.
• Have oversight of weekly flash reporting and monthly close; drive continuous improvement of processes, data integrity & strong financial control – work with business leaders, data source owners and the finance shared service function to ensure that key weekly and monthly data and reporting is accurate, automated and timely; supervise the finance team in the monthly close process and ensure that results are accompanied by meaningful and insightful commentary
• Development & training of Commercial Management Accountants – as a member of the finance SLT take responsibility for the day-to-day management of financial analysts and other finance team members, ensuring work is delivered to a high quality. Mentor and support the development of business partnering capabilities and commercial acumen of the finance team.

Person Specification

• Ideally a qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent) with at least 7 years’ post qualification experience but will consider strong non-accountant candidates who have considerable experience of working in a senior commercial / analytical role within digital media.
• At least 3 years’ experience in digital media / digital publishing including in digital programmatic and affiliate advertising revenues.
• Positive, proactive and can-do work ethic with ability to work autonomously and collaboratively as required 
• Unflustered about working in a fast paced dynamic and changing work environment 
• Questioning about status quo and driven by continuous improvement 
• Strong attention to detail, but ability to think strategically
• Intellectually capable, with an ability to quickly assimilate new data and information into a commercial picture 
• Hunger and desire to grow with the role and the business, focused on realizing ambitious growth aspirations. Approaches their work in an energetic and resilient manner 
• Ability to build strong interpersonal relationships across the business while being able to provide the necessary business challenge in a respectful and productive manner 
• Appreciation of the importance of a robust financial control environment and governance processes
• Excellent communication skills (both written and oral) 

About dmg::media

“dmg media’s brands deliver highly engaging, trusted content to millions of loyal customers around the globe, 24-hours a day, seven days a week. The Mail brand reaches one in two Brits every month and is officially the best-read, most recognised, most engaged newsbrand in the country.*

Together, Daily Mail, The Mail on Sunday, MailOnline, Mail+, Metro, Metro.co.uk, i and inews.co.uk reach more than 10.1m people daily in the UK.*

Globally, dmg media’s brands reach 190M unique browsers every month across its domains and apps.**

Our newsbrands maintain an unwavering commitment to uncovering the stories that matter most to our readers, ensuring that we remain experts at delivering relevant and insightful content.

In October, the Mail became the largest news publisher on TikTok with over 7- million followers. 

*PAMCo H2 2023

**GA 2023 September”

Our Commitment

We are committed to increasing diversity and maintaining an inclusive workplace culture. We welcome applications from all qualified candidates regardless of their ethnicity, race, gender, religious beliefs, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or disability.

We are Disability Confident Committed. Please let us know if you require any recruitment documentation in other formats or if you require reasonable adjustments to be made during the recruitment process. Please be assured that any such information will be held separately to your recruitment application and will not be considered as part of the selection process.