FP&A; Analyst Job Description

PART A | Domain Skills & Responsibilities

1. 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.

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. Scenario Planning & Ad-Hoc Analysis
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📌 FP&A Manager-US Shift (Chennai)
🏢 Winfort
📍 Chennai