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.

Job Description

Location:

New York, NY

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.
 

Position Overview

The Executive Finance Director based in New York is a key member of the Corporate FP&A function, and will be responsible for leading our global Long-Range Planning (LRP), decision support and strategic projects.  
 

While this role reports directly to the VP of Corporate FP&A, it operates as a key, on-the-ground strategic partner to the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) in New York. This role requires a commercially astute, analytical, and highly articulate leader who possesses the gravitas to collaborate closely with the CFO and senior US executive stakeholders, while seamlessly maintaining alignment with the broader global finance function. 
 

The role operates in a complex, multi-brand, matrix-structured and multi-market environment, and you will be the critical bridge between visionary strategy and grounded financial reality.
 

The role requires a blend of strong leadership and collaboration skills, with the ability to influence and partner effectively across multiple teams and senior leadership. The role will be tasked with translating high-level corporate ambition into robust, multi-year financial models, while simultaneously driving high-stakes strategic projects.
 

Driving the global long-range planning agenda requires critically assessing commercial strategies, challenging business cases, identifying risks and opportunities, and translating strategic decisions into clear financial outcomes and scenarios. The Executive Finance Director will possess the technical passion to dive deep into complex spreadsheets and data models. Being able to think macro, but execute with micro-precision is required. 

While this is a senior leadership role, the person will regularly roll up their sleeves to build, audit, and refine complex financial models themselves. The role ensures the highest level of accuracy and granularity in financial data, establishing frameworks that reduce ambiguity in long-term projections.

Key Responsibilities 

Strategic Long Range Planning & Decision Support 

• Ownership of the Global LRP process: Design, orchestrate, and execute the annual 5-year global financial planning process across all brands and geographic markets, working closely with function and market teams.

• 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: Where necessary, be able to build sensitivity analyses and stress-test business concepts.

• Serve as a trusted advisor to the business leaders and finance teams, providing clear, data-backed recommendations that influence the strategic direction of the company.

• Translate complex financial data into compelling narrative presentations for executive and board-level consumption.

• Confidently 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—such as market entry/exit strategies, new business initiatives, brand portfolio optimization, commercial restructuring, or M&A evaluation.

• Support company valuations and work closely with Advance on any support needed in this area

Financial support to Transformation Project Management Office:

• Steering major transformation p