Roles & 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 BUs 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 (1215 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.
Educational Requirement
BCom
Preferred Skills
Finance & Accounts->FP&A;
Service Line
BPO Service Line

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