VP, Finance and Strategy

Job Summary & Responsibilities:

The VP of Finance and Strategy works within the Finance group to provide support to the CFO and Head of Finance, BI and Strategy to direct the fiscal operations and inform strategic decisions of the Company. This includes providing clear concise financial information, strategic and tactical inputs to the MotorTrend Executive team and business leaders

The position is responsible for mentoring a high performing finance and strategy team to deliver proactive and actionable insights to the Head of Finance including, creating strategy decks or go to market decks for potential M&A activity

You will love working here if you are a self-starter, like a dynamic business environment, like creating strategy decks and enjoy working with a young but extremely talented finance/BI team to influence the strategic vision of the Company.

You will not like working here if you need a work week that’s predictable or do not prefer change management or if helping a team re-evaluate work processes to adapt to the ever changing media landscape is not your thing. The role is a hybrid role i.e. as needed days in the office however, the candidate should be local to facilitate days in the office

Responsibilities:

• Serve as the point person for all external and internal reporting requirements
• Identify areas of improvement in the business by working in tandem with the VP, BI and Analytics by reviewing weekly/monthly performance of content, marketing campaigns and product performance
• Work with key stakeholders in the ad sales teams to ensure current performance is in line with strategy
• Lead and execute strategies needed to remain competitive in the ad sales business
• Ensure that financial forecasts/budgets and long-range plans reflect the Company’s performance and strategic vison
• Create financial decks to report financial and operational performance to internal and external stakeholders
• Mentor the team to evolve their skill sets from tactical doers to critical thinkers
• Work with the CFO to create pitch decks for new business opportunities including buying and selling of assets and/or M&A activity.
• Lead the content greenlight process and establish best practices for assessing value of content library
• Determine the ROI of new initiatives and expansion plans
• Assist the CFO in creating board decks and external stakeholder reporting
• Partner with the BI and Data Engineering team to identify areas of opportunity to effectively combine data from disparate sources. Connect to and transform data using a consistent, sustainable approach

Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities:

• 7+ years in the media business or with DTC products as a senior level finance person. Either a Finance MBA or CPA required
• Proven ability to lead, mentor and develop a finance and strategy team in a dynamic environment.
• Hand on experience with creating strategy/pitch decks
• Experience and deep understanding of the budgeting, forecasting and long-range planning process
• Presenting key initiatives, strategy to senior level executives
• Expert level knowledge of power point and excel