Financial Planning Lead

We are looking for a FP&A Manager with 9 - 12 years experience into core FP&A

JOB DESCRIPTION

Condé Nast is a global media company, home to iconic brands including Vogue, GQ, Glamour, AD, Vanity Fair and Wired, among many others. Our award-winning content reaches 84 million consumers in print, 367 million in digital and 379 million across social platforms, and generates more than 1 billion video views each month.

We are headquartered in London and New York, and operate in 31 markets worldwide, including China, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Mexico & Latin America, Spain, Taiwan, the U.K. and the U.S., with local licence partners across the globe.

Position Overview

The Manager, Financial Reporting will be responsible for supporting the successful execution of the strategic vision of our newly created Reporting Centre of Excellence (CoE), playing a key role in establishing new pillars within the CoE. The successful candidate will manage the Pillar, oversee a smooth transitional period and ensure the provision of high-quality, accurate, and timely reporting. In addition, the Manager will drive standardization of our reporting processes, and continuous improvement in data, reporting and analytics as we seek to further scale up the team and build its capability.

The activities to be transferred / are transferred to the Pillar include month-end reporting and planning (Budget and in-year forecasts) with a focus on Revenue, Cost of Goods Sold (COGS) and Operating Expenses (OPEX). The Manager will collaborate closely with the Functional Business Partnering (based across the globe) and the Corporate FP&A teams (based in UK and US) to ensure services are delivered according to agreed standards and in line with business needs.

Key responsibilities include :

Service Delivery

• Overall responsibility for Team performance, ensuring that all reporting produced by the team is delivered in line with Service Level Agreements, including :
• Prepare standardized month-end reporting and presentation decks that combine actual and planned results and prepare ‘first pass’ variance analysis.
• Prepare templates and support the consolidation of Budgets and Forecasts, providing ‘first pass’ analysis of variance to targets.
• Report and analyse Revenue, COGS and OPEX at a functional and market level.
• Work with Controlling Ops team and end users to ensure coding accuracy on invoicing at source
• Support the preparation of monthly KPIs, gathering data from various sources
• Perform Ad hoc analysis as required.
• Assist in the development of the Service Level Agreements for activities performed by the Pillar
• Ensure that knowledge transfer and transition activity is completed on time and at a sufficient standard, ensuring all Statement of Procedures (SOPs) are updated and agreed with the business for any changes
• Reviews key outputs from team, ensuring high quality and standards of accuracy and presentation are upheld, before handing off to onshore teams
• Tracks and monitors Pillar performance based on agreed key performance metrics, course-correcting as and when required.
• Ensure issues are resolved in a timely and satisfactory way.
• In partnership with Corporate FP&A and Functional Business Partnering team (and in line with change management matrix), review and approve new reporting requests

Stakeholder Relationship Management

Continuous Improvement

Team Management

ESSENTIAL SKILLS & REQUIREMENTS