Analyst – Subscriptions Role With Bauer Media: #CreateYourFuture

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About the opportunity

This is a finance role working with the Subscriptions business.  Working in a team with two others, this role will produce and analyse the forecast, budget and month end processes for our magazine subscriptions.

Role Responsibility

Planning (30%)

  • Produce annual budget including subscriber volume, retention and revenue for your group of titles in the subscriptions business
  • Maintain and update rolling forecast on a monthly basis for subscriptions on your group of magazines
  • Monitor and track monthly marketing spend and other costs
  • Collaborate with wider finance and operational teams to support on the creation of long range strategic plans

Financial Reporting (30%)

  • Review month end results against forecast to ensure accuracy and explain variances
  • Assist Reporting accountants with correctly reporting spend
  • Review purchase orders to monitor and control spend
  • Support on KPI production around weekly sales, Monthly subscription performance
  • Support on month end reporting

Analysis and Reporting (30%)

  • Work with subscriptions team to create monthly KPIs and subscription results reporting, developing insightful analysis for the business
  • Provide commercial finance analysis to support ad hoc subscriptions and marketing projects, eg, improving marketing efficiency
  • Own completion of the actual retention data as part of month end duties.

Process Improvement (10%)

  • Look for potential improvements in processes and gaps in what we do – with a view to supporting the business better on decision making

The Ideal Candidate

  • Proven experience as an Analyst
  • Strong commercial acumen and exceptional attention to detail combined with proactive can-do attitude
  • Comfortable analysing large quantities of data and communicating insights to both financial and non-financial audiences
  • Experience of working with Excel, including pivot tables and other analytical functions
  • Able to multi-task and manage conflicting priorities

How to apply

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