Dow Jones

FP&A Manager

Dow Jones$110K — $130K *
Media
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 6–7 years of experience in Commercial Finance, FP&A, or similar roles focused on subscription or recurring revenue businesses.
  • Strong understanding of subscription economics, including acquisition funnels, churn/retention, ARPU, and lifetime value.
  • Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field.
  • Advanced Excel skills for complex modeling and scenario analysis.
  • Experience with financial planning systems such as SAP and TM1 is preferred.
  • Strong analytical skills to derive actionable insights from data.
  • Excellent communication skills to influence cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

  • Partner with marketing and product teams to manage budgets and forecasts for subscription revenue.
  • Build and maintain financial models focused on subscriber metrics such as acquisition volume and lifetime value.
  • Collaborate with growth teams to evaluate customer acquisition efficiency and optimize marketing investments.
  • Analyze financial impacts of pricing changes and promotional strategies across brands.
  • Develop scenario analyses to assess risks and opportunities for subscriber growth.
  • Produce monthly performance reporting with variance analysis for key subscription KPIs.
  • Support month-end close processes concerning subscription revenue.

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
Full Job Description
Job Description:

About the Role

The Consumer Finance team is seeking a Manager, FP&A to support the growth and performance of Dow Jones' subscription businesses, including The Wall Street Journal, Barron's, MarketWatch, and Investor's 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 lifecycle—from acquisition and promotional strategy to retention, pricing, and lifetime value—ensuring 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 work in our Midtown Manhattan or Princeton, New Jersey office 3 days a week 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:

  • 6–7 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.

  • Bachelor's 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.

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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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Business Area:

Dow Jones - Finance

Job Category:

Finance

Union Status:

Non-Union role

 

Base Pay Range: $110,000 - $130,000

We’re committed to offering competitive and flexible compensation to attract top talent. This pay range reflects our good faith estimate for the role and may vary based on a candidate’s experience, skills, location, and other relevant factors.

For bonus-eligible roles, targets are determined based on multiple considerations, including market benchmarks and individual contributions.

For benefits-eligible roles, we offer a comprehensive and competitive benefits package covering health, retirement, wellbeing, and more, along with optional benefits to meet the diverse needs of our employees.

About Dow Jones

Dow Jones is a global provider of news and business information, delivering content to consumers and organizations around the world across multiple formats, including print, digital, mobile and live events. Dow Jones has produced unrivaled quality content for more than 130 years and today has one of the world?s largest news gathering operations globally. It produces leading publications and products including the flagship Wall Street Journal, America?s largest newspaper by paid circulation; Factiva, Barron?s, MarketWatch, Mansion Global, Financial News, Dow Jones Risk & Compliance, Dow Jones Newswires, and Dow Jones VentureSource.
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