Finance Analyst – Technology & Indirect Costs Support

Location: Abingdon, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom; in-person work required three days a week or more, with flexibility to work from home or remotely on other days. The Milton Park office is expected to relocate to Oxford city centre in late 2027 or early 2028.

Company

Informa is a FTSE 100 academic publishing, business intelligence, knowledge, and events group; Taylor & Francis is its scholarly publishing business.

What you will do

• Prepare monthly management accounts, financial reports, and variance analysis for technology and indirect cost centres.
• Support annual budgeting and monthly forecasting across software licences, cloud services, IT infrastructure, digital platforms, facilities, professional services, and corporate overheads.
• Analyse cost trends, anomalies, efficiency opportunities, technology spend, platform utilisation, and software licence optimisation.
• Track costs for technology projects, software implementations, cloud migrations, and infrastructure upgrades, ensuring accurate allocation in financial systems.
• Support technology investment business cases through ROI calculations, benefit tracking, post-implementation reviews, and vendor and contract analysis.
• Improve financial reporting processes, automate routine tasks, and provide ad hoc analysis to finance, Technology, IT, and operational stakeholders.

Requirements

• Part-qualified accountant working toward ACA, ACCA, CIMA, or an equivalent qualification, with a clear progression plan.
• Experience in FP&A, commercial finance, management accounting, or business partnering, including budgeting, forecasting, financial planning, or cost analysis.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills, including pivot tables, VLOOKUP/XLOOKUP, formulas, data analysis, and financial modelling.
• Working knowledge of ERP systems such as SAP, Oracle, or similar, plus management accounting principles including cost allocation, variance analysis, and accruals.
• Strong numerical, analytical, communication, organisation, and stakeholder collaboration skills, including the ability to explain financial information to technology and operational teams.
• Ability to work in person at least three days per week at the United Kingdom location.

Nice to have

• Experience with technology finance, IT cost management, indirect cost analysis, SaaS, cloud services, or software licensing models.
• Experience with Power BI, Tableau, or equivalent financial reporting and data visualisation tools.
• Exposure to operational or non-finance teams and technology operations or digital transformation.

Culture & Benefits

• Flexible working culture with a focus on work-life balance and wellbeing.
• 25 days of annual leave, a birthday day off, and three additional discretionary days during the holiday season.
• Four paid volunteering days per year, private medical insurance, employee assistance, and life assurance.
• Share Match plan, pension scheme, and optical and medical care benefits.
• Equal opportunity workplace supporting diversity, inclusion, professional development, and continuous learning.

Hiring process

• Applications close on Tuesday 1 September 2026.