Team Lead

• *Key Responsibilities:**
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• 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

• *Preferred Skills:**
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Finance \& Accounts\-\>FP\&A