Financial Analysis Manager, AJC

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The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (AJC) has a long-standing legacy as one of the most trusted source of news and information in Atlanta, Georgia, and the South. As we transform from a traditional print newspaper to a leading digital media organization, our focus remains on informing, inspiring, and empowering the community. We are committed to serving future generations with high-quality essential and engaging journalism that adapts to the rapidly changing media landscape.

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Finance Manager to be a valuable contributor to our financial planning and analysis (FP&A) and the Finance team overall. This role plays an important role in ensuring the alignment between financial management and achieving the AJC’s strategic objectives. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in financial analysis and business modeling as well as have experience in driving performance optimization and guiding strategic decision-making.  This role reports into the Manager, Financial Planning & Analysis, supports our Product and Technology teams, and serves as an individual contributor.

This is a hybrid, Atlanta based role and will require the Manager to be in the office 2+ days weekly.

Key Responsibilities:

Serve as a trusted financial advisor to management

• Develop and manage against org level financial plans that are aligned with overall business objectives

• Work closely with department leaders to convert their annual plans into actionable annual budgets and long-range plans

• Liaise between financial teams and other departments to foster a cohesive understanding of financial goals

• Understand and stay current with news media industry trends, technology and financial practices

Report and analyze business results, trends and projections

• Generate and analyze revenue and expense reports and review monthly variances with management

• Use actual results, ongoing trends and known risks and opportunities to recommend changes to department-level forecasts during monthly reforecasts process

• Manage corporate reporting and upload of non-financial statistics used in performance measures, including volumes, newsprint consumption and inventory

Create and present intuitive, flexible financial models

• Build and maintain sophisticated models to project the AJC’s key revenue lines including digital subscription, print consumer, and advertising

• Drive the volume and rate projection process and provide recommendations for the print and digital businesses

• Conduct cost-benefit analysis and ROI assessments for strategic initiatives  and provide recommendations for risk mitigation

• Work cross functionally and utilize internal and external data and trends to align on the key assumptions utilized within models

• Perform scenario analysis to assess potential outcomes and risks associated with different growth strategies

Provide actionable recommendations based on data-driven findings

• Collaborate with Data and Analytics team to integrate cutting-edge analytics into financial decision making

• Utilize SQL databases, Power BI or Tableau to visualize insights

Drive performance optimization

• Establish key performance indicators, monitor metrics, provide regular reports to management

• Implement strategies to optimize financial performance, driving profitability and cost-effectiveness.

• Serve as the main support for pricing analysis and decisions related to print and digital subscribers.

• Constantly strive for process improvement and optimization in all processes.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field with 6+ years finance/business management experience. A candidate may also have a Master's Degree with 4+ years of experience or a Ph.D. with 1+ year of experience. A non-degreed candidate will have 8+ years of experience.

• Strong understanding of financial, budget and business planning processes

• Ability to develop multi-year financial plans

• Experience with modeling complex scenarios

• Comfortable with financial reporting and analysis of actual results

• Must have strong business acumen, independent thinking and willing to think critically

• Strong communication (written/oral) and collaboration skills, and ability to effectively present complex financial information to decision makers and non-financial audiences

• Comfortable presenting to management in a clear, concise, and easily understandable manner, including for a non-financial audience.

• Ability to work independently with minimal daily direction

• Proficient in Excel

• Experience with SQL, PowerBI, Tableau, or other data visualization tools, Oracle, Hyperion, and/or Onestream a plus