Key Responsibilities:

- Revenue Planning Forecasting
- Maintain a rolling 24 month revenue forecast across subscriber newsstand advertising print digital and CPG retailer streams refreshed weekly from automated data feeds
- Build and update subscriber revenue models applying churn growth and rate tier assumptions across all newspaper and magazine titles
- Gather weekly qualitative intelligence from ad managers and division directors layer onto statistical base forecasts
- Forecast weekly copy volumes across multiple stores and multiple publishers using secular decline baselines seasonal indices and merchandiser capacity constraints
- Annual Budgeting
- Own the full budget cycle kickoff through lock down across necessary back n forth iteration rounds for the BU s build input templates consolidate submissions and present to senior leadership
- Build line by line headcount and compensation budgets from payroll exports covering all employee types including temp agency DC labor
- Produce departmental opex budgets from AP actuals and contract change inputs build COGS D A and newsprint cost models




- Run the freight model against volume assumptions box consolidation optimization build and negotiate the store level merchandising budget with external vendors
- Variance Analysis Reporting
- Pull month end actuals build bridge schedules and draft tailored variance narratives for each BU leadership executive
- Compile and publish the weekly leadership slide deck actuals vs
- forecast and 24 month forward view plus the CFO KPI metrics deck 20 metrics for board cycles
- Process outside printing reconciliations 12 15 vendors advertising commission statements and royalty agreements 31 SIP partners monthly
- Review POs validate G L codes approver chains and budget alignment support period close journal entry creation as needed
- Scenario Planning Ad Hoc Analysis
- Model leadership directed scenarios subscriber repricing ad channel rationalization headcount restructuring publisher volume cuts accounting for non linear cost responses

Preferred Skills:

Finance & Accounts->FP&A;

📌 Operations Manager (India)
🏢 Infosys BPM
📍 India