Overview

Job Location:
New York, NY

The mission of The New York Times is to seek the truth and help people understand the world. That means independent journalism is at the heart of all we do as a company. It’s why we have a world-renowned newsroom that sends journalists to report on the ground from nearly 160 countries. It’s why we focus deeply on how our readers will experience our journalism, from print to audio to a world-class digital and app destination. And it’s why our business strategy centers on making journalism so good that it’s worth paying for. 

 

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Job Description

 

About the Role

The New York Times is looking for a passionate employee to join our Financial Planning & Analysis team in our Subscription Growth and Marketing department. As part of the Financial Planning & Analysis team, we focus on subscriber revenue and marketing expenses. You will be an important contributor working with the business teams to oversee the creation of financial forecasts, budgets and analysis and understanding changes.  Your background and skills will help ensure accurate reporting of marketing results and find business insights. You will report to the Executive Financial Director, Subscription Growth and Marketing.

Responsibilities:

  • Monthly Close – Work with the Marketers and the Finance/Accounting teams to approve close activity at a detail level. Consolidate marketing activity, report, and distribute financial results to senior executives. Provide variance explanations and highlights for internal reporting.

  • Forecast/Budgeting – Responsible for working with the marketing team on all forecasts/budgets. Using top-down guidance, ensure marketing leadership understands the impact of how budgets are being allocated between payroll/non-payroll/media.

  • Communication– Communicate monthly Marketing and Media Spend financial results to wider marketing team. Collaborate with media team to communicate results of paid subscriber acquisition on a monthly basis 

  • Strategy & Consolidations– Responsible for ensuring financial plans are consistent with our strategy. Consolidating and ensuring the consistency of financial results across the subscription business. Coordinate benefits related to capital requests.

  • Partnership– Host monthly close check-in with marketing partners to discuss current month performance and

Basic Qualifications:

  • Must have experienced MS Suite skills

  • Accounting, Finance, or other Quantitative degree from an accredited 4 year university

  • Minimum of 3 years of experience in forecasting, reporting and financial modeling role

  • Handle a high degree of ambiguity and quickly identify what needs to be accomplished.

  •  Break down complex problems into pieces that can be solved with data, analysis, assumptions and judgment

Preferred Qualifications: 

  • Knowledge of Workday/Adaptive

  • Technical expertise required with the ability to work with large amounts of data and build financial models, important statistics and visual charts

  • Experience with Marketing Finance and understanding of paid media

The annual base pay range for this role is between $80,00.00 and $100,000.00. 

The New York Times is committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce, one that reflects the varied global community we serve. Our journalism and the products we build in the service of that journalism greatly benefit from a range of perspectives, which can only come from diversity of all types, across our ranks, at all levels of the organization. Achieving true diversity and inclusion is the right thing to do. It is also the smart thing for our business. So we strongly encourage women, veterans, people with disabilities, people of color and gender nonconforming candidates to apply.

The New York Times Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of an individual's sex, age, race, color, creed, national origin, alienage, religion, marital status, pregnancy, sexual orientation or affectional preference, gender identity and expression, disability, genetic trait or predisposition, carrier status, citizenship, veteran or military status and other personal characteristics protected by law. All applications will receive consideration for employment without regard to legally protected characteristics. The New York Times Company will provide reasonable accommodations as required by applicable federal, state, and/or local laws, and will consider qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable "Fair Chance" laws.