Acting Senior Director, FP&A

• Revenue Function Partnering (includes focus on gross profit and margin analysis):

  • Work closely with revenue function key stakeholders to understand revenue drivers, including critical insights such as customer behavior/patterns and key event impacts (e.g., Met Gala, Oscars, Vogue World, etc.), pricing strategies (e.g., direct/indirect display and capacity relationships), and revenue performance by business line.
  • Obtain a solid understanding at a high level of pricing impacts, material customer contract negotiations happening across the markets/brands, and advertising deal profitability analysis that optimize revenue and gross profit.
  • Facilitate the alignment between markets and revenue global functional team to ensure consistency in forecasting, actual reporting, and performance measurement.
  • Work closely with the Revenue Function to understand bi-weekly/ad-hoc revenue projections, pinpoint market trends, impacts of new publication/campaign launches globally and locally, and customer and end consumer behavior patterns driving changes in financial performance.
  • Provide global high-level scenario planning and sensitivity analysis to assess the impact of potential changes in revenue (e.g., modeling revenue mix impacts impacting margin or change in customer demands and subsequent impacts on revenue and profitability).
  • Understand and use key revenue performance indicators (KPIs) related to revenue growth, gross profit margin, including high focus streams such as subscriptions (e.g., review KPIs relating to new starts, volume, customer retention, pricing impacts, or LTV). Be able to explain business performance and provide strategic insights and recommendations using these KPIs.

• Leadership and Close Collaboration with India FP&A CoE:

  • Manage and develop direct reports to be engaged, motivated, and high-performing.
  • Champion continuous improvement in reporting, processes, and insights delivery in the FP&A team.
  • Act as a cross-functional connector, ensuring finance plays a proactive role in strategic decision-making across the functions by providing insightful information.
  • Provide indirect oversight for a dedicated India FP&A CoE team; set priorities aligned with specific deliverables, establish clear expectations of service levels, ensure quality and timeliness of outputs of the CoE.

Job Requirements

• Ideally 10+ years experience in FP&A or strategic finance.
• Experience in media or a similar industry within an international company.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, experience collaborating with senior finance professionals, partnering with the business & being a ‘voice in the room’.
• Strong analytical skills and attention to detail, comfortable with handling lots of data and delivering quality outputs with minimal review required.
• Proven experience of using initiative to build a deeper understanding of the numbers to ‘tell the story’ about business performance.
• Able to work in a cross-functional matrix organization, and experience in managing work deliverables across multiple time zones.
• Experience of managing the delivery of reporting improvements from identifying the opportunity through to implementation in a complex operating environment.
• Works well under pressure, prioritizes effectively, and takes ownership of deliverables.
• Self-motivated, flexible & a great team player, adaptable to pitch in to wider demands of the team where required.
• Proficient user of G-suite, and prior exposure to Adaptive planning (workday) or Oracle EPM.

What Happens Next?

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