Financial Analysis Manager, AJC

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

USD 92,300.00 - 153,900.00 per year
Compensation:
Compensation includes a base salary in the range of $92,300.00 - $153,900.00. The base salary may vary within the anticipated base pay range based on factors such as the ultimate location of the position and the selected candidate's knowledge, skills, and abilities. Position may be eligible for additional compensation that may include an incentive program.
Benefits:
The Company offers eligible employees the flexibility to take as much vacation with pay as they deem consistent with their duties, the company's needs, and its obligations; seven paid holidays throughout the calendar year; and up to 160 hours of paid wellness annually for their own wellness or that of family members. Employees are also eligible for additional paid time off in the form of bereavement leave, time off to vote, jury duty leave, volunteer time off, military leave, and parental leave.
Applicants must currently be authorized to work in the United States for any employer without current or future sponsorship.