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About the Role

The Executive Finance Director will lead global Long-Range Planning (LRP), decision support, and strategic projects, acting as a key strategic partner to the CFO. This role requires a commercially astute, analytical leader capable of translating high-level corporate ambition into robust financial models and driving strategic projects within a complex, multi-brand, matrix-structured environment.

Responsibilities

• Ownership of the Global LRP process: Design, orchestrate, and execute the annual 5-year global financial planning process across all brands and geographic markets.
• Strategic Translation of Business Ideas into Financial Forecasts: Convert qualitative brand and market strategies into quantitative, accurate, and fully integrated financial forecasts (P&L & Cash Flow).
• Scenario Modeling: Build sensitivity analyses and stress-test business concepts.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to business leaders and finance teams, providing data-backed recommendations.
• Translate complex financial data into compelling narrative presentations for executive and board-level consumption.
• Challenge assumptions made by commercial and brand leaders, ensuring strategic plans are both ambitious and financially viable.
• Support the Business Development team, acting as the financial architect for critical, non-standard corporate initiatives (e.g., market entry/exit, new business initiatives, brand portfolio optimization, M&A evaluation).
• Support company valuations and work closely with Advance on any support needed.
• Financial support to Transformation Project Management Office: Serve as the strategic financial architect and governance anchor, translating operational changes into measurable financial outcomes.
• Evaluate the financial implications, risk profiles, and ROI of proposed initiatives, ensuring robust business cases.
• Establish and oversee rigorous financial tracking frameworks and KPIs to monitor spend, manage budget variances, and validate cost savings or value creation.
• Provide CFO with financial visibility to ensure transformation projects drive sustainable profitability.
• Commercial finance co-pilot to the Business Development team, driving financial strategy for growth initiatives, brand licensing, and strategic partnerships.
• Review and lead financial modeling, valuation, and risk assessment for monetization strategies.
• Liaise with the financial controlling team to ensure accurate evaluation of deal implications and highlighted risks.
• Support post-deal financial tracking and performance analysis with the business development team.

Requirements

• Ideally 10+ years experience in FP&A or strategic finance.
• Experience in media or a similar industry within an international company.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience collaborating with senior finance professionals, partnering with the business, and being a ‘voice in the room’.
• Strong analytical skills and attention to detail, comfortable with handling lots of data and delivering quality outputs with minimal review.
• Proven ability to shift effortlessly from high-level strategic thinking to granular, hands-on financial modeling.
• Ability to lead through influence rather than formal authority.
• Strong relationship-building skills and ability to collaborate effectively with stakeholders across functions and levels.
• Builds effective relationships across diverse cultures, languages, working styles, and functions.
• Able to manage business change in a rapidly changing environment.
• Able to work in a cross-functional matrix organisation.
• Experience in managing work deliverables across multiple time-zones.
• Works well under pressure, prioritises effectively and takes ownership of deliverables.
• Self-motivated, flexible & a great team player, adaptable to pitch in to wider demands of the team.
• Proficient user of G-suite.
• Prior exposure to Oracle EPM Advanced is an advantage.

Skills

• FP&A
• Strategic Finance
• Financial Modeling
• Data Analysis
• Communication
• Collaboration
• Leadership
• Relationship Building
• Business Development Support
• M&A Evaluation
• Valuation
• G-suite
• Oracle EPM Advanced

Location

• New York, NY

Work Type

• Full-time

Experience Level

• 10+ years

Salary/Compensations

• $270,000-290,000

About the Company

• 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.

Equal Opportunity

• Condé Nast is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, age, familial status and other legally protected characteristics.