Strategic Finance Manager, Editorial Brands - Remote

Overview

Vox Media is seeking a Strategic Finance Manager, Editorial Brands for its Strategic Finance team. You will play a key role in the budgeting and forecasting process for a select group of editorial brands and be responsible for a variety of financial duties surrounding analysis and providing financial insights. The Manager is expected to establish themselves as a strong business partner to leaders throughout the organization.

In Short

• Develop a detailed understanding of key financial and operational metrics, supporting with analyses to propel Company growth and efficiency.
• Act as a key business partner with Editorial leadership to help support brand strategies, build bottoms-up budgets and forecasts, and establish and track key performance indicators.
• Lead long-range planning, annual budgeting, and monthly financial forecasting, providing guidance on brand level strategy.
• Assist with the preparation of brand level P&Ls and provide key takeaways to brand leadership to help support and provide guidance on their overall strategies.
• Manage variance analyses by clearly explaining the business reasons for variances and adjusting forecast models to reflect changes in the business.
• Support ad-hoc analyses to assist with strategic planning including brand & project level return analyses.
• Create financial models to help support business strategies for Editorial leaders.
• Identify and implement various financial process improvements.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Finance, Accounting and/or related field.
• 4-8 years of relevant work experience in financial modeling and/or relevant analytical roles.
• Excellent analytical & technical skills: sophisticated Excel skills and experience in Adaptive are a huge plus.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to develop and maintain business partner relationships at all levels within the organization.
• Ability to produce reports and presentations with accuracy and in an efficient manner.
• Exceptional attention to detail, with an ability to organize and self-manage competing priorities. The ideal candidate will demonstrate an ability to think creatively and strategically while performing tactical analysis.
• Embrace working in a highly collaborative environment.
• Ability to take initiative and make decisions in a sometimes ambiguous work environment.
• Extremely curious and analytical mindset; not satisfied with easy or convenient answers.

Benefits

• This is a permanent, full-time position.
• This job is benefits-eligible.
• We pride ourselves in providing comprehensive benefits to support all of our employees wherever they are in life.