Senior Finance Analyst, FP&A

Condé Nast is a global media company producing the highest quality content with a footprint of more than 1 billion consumers in 32 territories through print, digital, video and social platforms. The company’s portfolio includes many of the world’s most respected and influential media properties including Vogue, Vanity Fair, Glamour, Self, GQ, The New Yorker, Condé Nast Traveler/Traveller, Allure, AD, Bon Appétit and Wired, among others.Job Description

Location:

London, GB

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.

The Role

The Senior Finance Analyst based in London is a key member of the Corporate FP&A function, which is responsible for managing the Conde Nast Global P&L as well as running the budgeting and forecasting process to help deliver the company’s financial targets. The team is based in the US, UK and India, and we work closely with all functions and markets, as well as the people function. Our work is absolutely critical to the business as we help to ‘join the dots’ and provide the global executive leadership team with the insight and information needed to manage company performance and drive strategic decisions. We are also at the forefront of implementing consistent and standardised reporting and processes across the company, aligned with our broader finance vision.

What will you be doing?

• Support the Head of FP&A to provide ongoing business partnering support to global functional finance leads through developing a deep understanding of key drivers & business challenges and forging close working relationships across multiple finance stakeholder groups. 

• Oversee the production of the key monthly consolidated reporting for the group (reviewing the centre of excellence outputs to ensure accuracy)

• Help to prepare the monthly financial results for the global CEO & CFO as well as providing reporting packs for the board & Conde Nast executive leadership team. Provide insightful, forward-looking commentary on performance and proactively identify areas to investigate further 

• Review and report our global monthly KPIs, joining the dots between the financial & non-financial metrics and collaborating with senior colleagues across various functions to ensure clear & accurate insights are provided.

• Support in the delivery of our global rolling risks and opportunities reporting to provide early indicators of global performance outside of the formal planning cycles.

• Manage time sensitive financial insights & reporting requests from senior global stakeholders

• Support the delivery of the global forecast and budget process end to end, working closely with a variety of internal senior finance stakeholders across the business

• Proactively seek out opportunities to improve the efficiency & effectiveness of corporate FP&A reporting & insights

Who you are:

• 2+ years post qualified or QBE with at least 6-7 years relevant experience 

• Experience in media, or a similar industry within an international company

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, experience collaborating with senior finance professionals, confident 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 organisation, 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 prioritises 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 benefits do we offer? 

• 25 days holiday and extra days of annual leave for life events 

• Core hours 

• Competitive pension scheme 

• Bupa Private Healthcare 

• Enhanced maternity leave and family leave 

• Season ticket loans 

• Cycle to work scheme 

• Employee Assistance programme 

• Bring your dog to work 

• A wide variety of wellness benefits including gym discounts 

• Discounts and Magazine Subscriptions

• Employee Resource Groups to provide a platform for employees to identify shared objectives, exchange ideas, and work on community priorities for our global workforce 

• Condé Nast Learning Hub where you’ll find all Condé Nast-developed learning courses and training, and over 16,000+ courses in seven local languages

What happens next?

If you are interested in this opportunity, please apply below, and we will review your application as soon as possible. You can update your resume or upload a cover letter at any time by accessing your candidate profile.

Condé Nast is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, age, familial status and other legally protected characteristics.