Finance Business Partner

About Condé Nast

Condé Nast is a global media company, home to iconic brands including Conde Nast Traveller, AD, Vogue, GQ, The New Yorker, Glamour, Vanity Fair and Wired, among many others. The company's award‑winning content reaches 88 million consumers in print, 419 million in digital and 432 million across social platforms, and generates more than 1 billion video views each month.

The company is headquartered in London and New York and operates in 32 markets worldwide, including China, France, Germany, UAE, India, Italy, Japan, Mexico & Latin America, Spain, Taiwan, the U.K. and the U.S, with local licence partners across the globe.

Condé Nast Middle East is dedicated to producing high-quality, compelling content that connects with Middle East’s most influential audiences. Our vision for our workplace is one that is centred on transparency and respect and with values that bring forward the best in all of us. We are committed to creating a culture where diverse voices and perspectives are encouraged and respected, and where all employees are equally supported in developing their careers — where people can truly be themselves and achieve their best.

Reporting to the FP&A Manager, Finance Business Partnering, you will be responsible for leading the provision of business partnering support to the Market Revenue function leadership team. He/she will also deliver FP&A activities including preparation of Month End variance analysis and preparation, consolidation and presentation of Budgets/CEs.

You will be strategic decision‑making, collaborating across all Revenue functional teams. Working closely with the Sales Divisions, Digital Operations, Consumer, CNCC teams. The role will build and sustain deep relationships, partnering across the function to influence and drive optimal business performance and achievement of key financial targets, including maximization of margin and driving new revenue streams. You will work with Senior Executives to achieve their targets through the interpretation of data and formation of palatable recommendations and actionable insights.

You will participate in projects that impact the Market and play an active role in EMEA Region and Global Revenue Function initiatives aimed at driving best practice and standardizing approaches, taking a leadership role from time‑to‑time to support initiatives and special projects.

You will report to the FP&A Manager, Finance Business Partnering, Middle East and provide more general support to ensure that the Market is achieving its targets and deputising for the line manager when they are out of the business.

• Work with Revenue teams to understand performance and evaluate and execute growth opportunities, providing financial advice and insights to support decision making.
• Work with Revenue teams to develop deeper analysis of performance and ways to benchmark and report on Revenue & Gross Profit results, and establish review processes with Revenue team to agree effective ways to track and forecast performance
• Work in partnership and collaborate across all the departments in the Revenue organization (Advertising Sales, Consumer revenue lines of business, CNCC teams, providing insightful analysis and recommendations to drive revenue and margin improvement.
• Ad Revenue analysis: support the Revenue function in ad hoc analysis about daily sales pipeline reporting and revenue dashboard.
• Provide inputs to review contracts, ensuring GP target thresholds are achieved, including advising on pricing, deal margin analysis, creation of goals and quotas, analysis of revenue risk/opportunities, and performance to goal tracking.
• Advocate across functions to ensure that financial perspectives are reflected in key decisions
• Support the FBP in preparing strategic analysis, business case development and ad hoc analysis as required to support Market, Europe Regional and Global strategic initiatives.

• Conduct detailed review of Budget/CE guidelines set by Corporate FP&A and targets from Revenue Global Functional Business Partner team to ensure all Revenue specific…