Senior Financial Analyst
Sun-Times Media, LLC
<div class="content-intro"><p><span style="text-decoration: underline; font-size: 12pt;"><strong>About Chicago Public Media</strong></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Chicago Public Media is one of the nation’s largest local nonprofit news organizations. Home to WBEZ 91.5FM, the Chicago Sun-Times, and Vocalo. Chicago Public Media reaches more than 3.3 million people weekly across broadcast, print, and digital platforms. As a mission-driven organization, we aspire to be the most trusted news source Chicagoans turn to for understanding the people, events, and ideas shaping our community.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Chicago Public Media is a 100% community-funded newsroom powered by nearly 97,000 members whose support makes our journalism possible. This sustained community investment helped drive nationally recognized work in 2025, including 29 awards from esteemed organizations, including the Public Media Journalists Association, the Edward R. Murrow Awards, and the National Association of Black Journalists.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">We believe independent journalism is essential to a healthy democracy and that access to objective, fact-based news is a right for every citizen. We serve the public interest by creating diverse content that informs and enriches our community, supported by a dedicated staff of approximately 250 professionals.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">For more information, please see the Chicago Public Media<a href="https://www.wbez.org/annual-report-2024"> Annual Report</a>.</span></p> <p>&nbsp;</p></div><p><strong><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><u>The Opportunity</u></span></strong></p> <p style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The Senior Financial Analyst is responsible for CPM’s financial modeling and reporting including but not limited to Executive Management and Board reporting, quarterly forecasts, annual operating plans, longer-term strategic analysis, detailed reporting for audit, tax, and grants, and reporting for the annual insurance renewal. The Senior Financial Analyst creates the financial update and business narrative for Finance Committee and Board of Directors meetings. In addition to financial modeling and reporting, the Senior Financial Analyst is responsible for analytical decision support and scenario modeling to assist with executive level, strategic decision-making. The Senior Financial Analyst is tasked with ensuring that CPM’s third-party financial software meets the organization’s financial objectives along with the organization’s reporting and compliance needs. The Senior Financial Analyst in partnership with the accounting team serves as the project manager, systems implementation manager, systems administrator, and trainer for key financial systems including the general ledger reporting software, FP&amp;A reporting software, and expense reimbursement software. The Senior Financial Analyst has one direct report (Senior Data Analyst).</span></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">General Responsibilities</span></span></strong></p> <ul> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Create and analyze financial models and reports to provide accurate and timely f