Manager, Finance Consumer Subscriptions
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Job Location:
New York City, NY - USA
Monthly Salary:
$ 110000 - 135000
Posted on:
Yesterday
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Job Description:
About the Role
The Consumer Finance team is seeking a Manager Finance to support the growth and performance of Dow Jones subscription businesses including The Wall Street Journal Barrons MarketWatch and Investors Business Daily (IBD).
This role will partner closely with leaders across Marketing Product Data Science and Circulation to plan forecast and optimize subscriber revenue. You will help drive financial insights across the full subscriber lifecyclefrom acquisition and promotional strategy to retention pricing and lifetime valueensuring the business achieves its growth and profitability objectives.
You will develop forward-looking models evaluate investment decisions and provide actionable insights that inform strategic priorities. You will be based in the New York or New Jersey office and report to the VP Finance.
You Will:
- Partner with Consumer Marketing and Product teams to develop and manage budgets and forecasts for digital and print subscription revenue across Dow Jones brands.
- Build and maintain subscriber-based financial models including drivers such as acquisition volume promotional offers pricing step-ups churn/retention and lifetime value (LTV).
- Collaborate with Growth and Paid Media teams to evaluate customer acquisition efficiency (CAC Cost Per Order payback ROI) and optimize marketing investment.
- Analyze the financial impact of pricing changes promotional strategies bundling and new product initiatives.
- Develop scenario and sensitivity analyses to assess risks and opportunities related to subscriber growth retention and ARPU.
- Produce monthly performance reporting including variance analysis and trend insights across key subscription KPIs (net adds churn conversion mix yield).
- Support month-end close processes with a focus on subscription revenue and related accruals.
- Build business cases to support strategic initiatives such as product launches offer testing international expansion or channel optimization. Partner with Data Science and Analytics teams to ensure alignment between financial forecasts and subscriber behavior trends.
- Support ad-hoc analyses and strategic projects as needed
You Have:
- 67 years of experience in Commercial Finance FP&A or related roles preferably supporting subscription direct-to-consumer media SaaS or recurring revenue businesses.
- Strong understanding of subscription economics including acquisition funnels churn/retention ARPU and lifetime value.
- Bachelors degree in Finance Accounting Economics or related field or related experience (preferred).
- Advanced Excel skills (complex modeling scenario analysis) and proficiency with Google Sheets/Slides.
- Experience with financial planning systems such as SAP and TM1 (preferred).
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to translate data into actionable business insights.
- Experience building financial models to evaluate marketing investment pricing and product strategies.
- Excellent communication skills and ability to influence cross-functional stakeholders.
- Highly organized detail-oriented and able to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
- Demonstrated initiative strong work ethic and collaborative mindset.
Our Benefits
- Comprehensive Healthcare Plans
- Paid Time Off
- Retirement Plans
- Comprehensive Medical Dental and Vision Insurance Plans
- Education Benefits
- Paid Maternity and Paternity Leave
- Family Care Benefits
- Commuter Transit Program
- Subscription Discounts
- Employee Referral Program
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Reasonable accommodation: Dow Jones Making Careers Newsworthy - We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity or expression pregnancy age national origin disability status genetic information protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law. EEO/Disabled/Vets. Dow Jones is committed to providing reasonable accommodation for qualified individuals with disabilities in our job application and/or interview process. If you need assistance or accommodation in completing your application due to a disability email us at Please put Reasonable Accommodation in the subject line and provide a brief description of the type of assistance you need. This inbox will not be monitored for application status updates.Business Area:
Dow Jones - FinanceJob Category:
FinanceUnion Status:
Non-Union rolePay Range: $110000 - $135000We recognize that attracting the best talent is key to our strategy and success as a company. As a result we aim for flexibility in structuring competitive compensation offers to ensure we are able to attract the best candidates. The quoted salary range represents our good faith estimate as to what our ideal candidates are likely to expect and we tailor our offers within the range based on the selected candidates experience industry knowledge location technical and communication skills and other factors that may prove relevant during the interview process.Pay-for-performance is a key element in our strategy to attract engage and motivate talented people to do their best work. Similarly to salary for bonus eligible roles targets are set based on a variety of factors including competitive market practice.For benefits eligible roles in addition to cash compensation the company provides a comprehensive and highly competitive benefits package with a variety of physical health retirement and savings caregiving emotional wellbeing transportation and other benefits including elective benefits employees may select to best fit the needs and personal situations of our diverse workforce..Required Experience:
Manager
Key Skills
- Cognos
- Forecasting
- Hyperion
- Dealership Experience
- QuickBooks
- Accounting
- Corporate Finance
- Financial Analysis
- Financial Modeling
- Budgeting
- Financial Management
- Financial Planning
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