Acting Senior Director, FP&A

Condé Nast is a global media company producing the highest quality content with a footprint of more than 1 billion consumers in 32 territories through print, digital, video and social platforms. The company’s portfolio includes many of the world’s most respected and influential media properties including Vogue, Vanity Fair, Glamour, GQ, The New Yorker, Condé Nast Traveler/Traveller, Allure, AD, Bon Appétit and Wired, among others.

Location:

London, GB

Condé Nast is a global media company, home to iconic brands including Vogue, The New Yorker, GQ, Glamour, AD, Vanity Fair and Wired, among many others. The company's award-winning content reaches 84 million consumers in print, 367 million in digital and 379 million across social platforms, and generates more than 1 billion video views each month.

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

The Senior Finance Director based in London is a key member of the Corporate FP&A function, which is responsible for managing and delivering the Group’s global financial management reporting, budgeting and re-forecasting. The team is based in the US, UK and India, and we work closely with all functions and markets. The role involves value-added analysis to interpret financial and non-financial information and provide insightful information to key stakeholders (finance and non-finance) to enable agile decision-making.

The role requires a blend of strong leadership and collaboration skills, with the ability to influence and partner effectively across multiple teams and senior leadership. A key competency is the ability to communicate complex financial insights clearly to non-financial stakeholders, driving strategic decision-making with actionable, data-driven recommendations. This role demands a high degree of strategic thinking, problem-solving, and adaptability, with a focus on continuous improvement and innovation in financial processes and systems.

Strong interpersonal skills are critical for managing and developing both direct and indirect teams, particularly across global and remote locations (Bangalore, India), ensuring alignment and fostering a culture of accountability and high performance. The ability to balance tactical execution (i.e. focussing on the day to day such as production of forecasts and budgets) with long-term strategic goals, coupled with a results-driven mindset, ensures the individual can deliver measurable impact and drive business growth in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.

An experienced and strategic Senior Director of Corporate Finance Planning to lead the financial planning and reporting efforts with a particular focus on global revenue and gross profit performance. This critical role will involve extensive business partnering with the Revenue Function and other senior stakeholders to ensure accurate financial forecasting, reporting, and analysis. The role will provide strategic insights to help decision marking around drivers for revenue growth, optimise gross profit margins, and improve financial performance across the organisation.

• Support the CFP&A team to manage the end to end delivery of the global consolidated reporting (actuals, budget and forecasts). Ensure that variance analysis with business rationale, risks and opportunities, trends, insights are understood, and clearly explained to Senior Leadership.
• Support the annual budget process coordinating across markets and functions, closely tracking targets.

• Work closely with revenue function key stakeholders to understand revenue drivers; including critical insights such as customer behaviour /patterns and key event impacts (for example Met Gala, Oscars, Vogue World, etc), pricing strategies (for example direct/indirect display and capacity relationships), and revenue performance by business line.
• Obtain a solid understanding at a high level, on pricing impacts,…