Jill Mcbain Email & Phone Number

Greater New York City Area

Grand Central Publishing

Greater New York City Area

• Function as the financial and strategic liaison to the Publisher of Orbit and Hachette Books. Provide clear explanation of financial results and KPIs and forecast upcoming performance that is relayed to address executive level management. • Assess both pre-acquisition and post-publication analysis; assess high risk acquisitions with strong focus on unearned advance exposure and profitability. Provide sales and profitability analysis on major authors as well as trends impacting current and forecasted business environments. • Manage the monthly financial processes, P&L forecasting, quarterly review analysis, and annual budget forecasting. Create comprehensive financial models consolidating financial statements by forecasting revenues, expenses, and income across multiple imprints and formats. Work with sales, editorial, production, royalty, and subsidiary rights departments to create annual budgets totaling more than $75 million in annual revenue. • Reconcile consolidated and title level actual financial performance against budget and forecast figures. Prepare commentary for monthly financial results explaining revenue and expense variances and impact to bottom line profits. • Present annual budgets and reforecasts to CEO and senior management as well as parent company executives.• Appointed as finance representative for corporate committees including backlist sales initiative, high risk acquisitions, and software and system replacement and enhancements.• Outline financial goals in conjunction with business strategy to establish long term plans ranging from one to three years. • Analyze reporting for various segments of the business including digital trend analysis, backlist performance, account, and market analysis. Assess title P&L and author history to recognize trends to gauge acquisition proposals and advance offers.• Serve as finance lead for Yen Press LLC, a distribution client of HBG as part of a joint venture.

Greater New York City Area

• Oversaw the monthly close, commentary, and reporting processes along with budgeting and strategic initiatives and presentations to senior management as stated above for the Orbit Division as well as Hachette Audio. • Developed an expansion plan for the Orbit Division which included a 50% increase to annual title count in conjunction with additional headcount to increase overall revenue while still keeping a high level of profitability. • Created dynamic model used to forecast P&L and operational business impact of negotiations with largest Audio customer. Model demonstrated scenarios as discussions progressed, allowing business unit to visualize impact on the fly. This enabled leadership to quickly make informed decisions, fully knowledgeable of impact of key demands and concessions. • Managed multiple reporting processes for central finance as well as ad-hoc projects. Used superior analytical and technical skills to continuously evolve these processes to be more relevant and efficient with changes in the industry landscape. • Participated in joint venture with an imprint within the Orbit Division and a major Japanese publisher. Worked in conjunction with operations, legal, and central finance during due diligence process and ultimately close the deal.

New York, Ny

• Manage the monthly financial processes, quarterly review analysis, and annual budgets for the Orbit Division and Hachette Audio. Work with sales, editorial, production, and subsidiary rights departments to create annual budgets totaling more than $75 million in annual revenues. • Create comprehensive financial models consolidating monthly and annual financial statements by forecasting revenues, expenses, and income across multiple imprints and formats.• Reconcile consolidated and title level actual financial performance against budget and reforecast figures. Prepare commentary for monthly financial results explaining sales and cost variances and impact to overall bottom line. Forecast revenue and expenses for acquired titles and communicate with sales and production leads to assess drivers and/or shortfalls.• Developed an expansion plan for the Orbit division which included a 50% increase to annual publication in conjunction with additional headcount to increase overall revenue while still keeping a high level of profitability. • Generate financial reporting for various segments of the business including digital trend analysis, backlist performance, account, and market analysis. Analyze title P&L and author history to recognize trends to gauge acquisition proposals and advance offers.• Present annual budgets and reforecasts to CEO and Senior Management Board as well as parent company executives. • Implemented a strategic cost savings initiative and profit protection plan to ensure a favorable bottom line. • Responsible for providing guiding and managerial support to a team of three analysts; one analyst is a direct report.

New York, Ny

• Supported four business managers and five publishing divisions in month-end close, budget and reforecast process, title/author/editor profitability analysis, and ad-hoc analysis.• Reconciled actual financial performance against budget and reforecast figures.• Developed automated monthly and bi-annual profit share reports for major authors. Streamlined process evaluates sales, sell through percentage, reserves, and costs for over 70 titles.• Created weekly eBook point of sale reporting process to inform editors about performance of their titles. New process provides more detailed reporting and saves team 8 to 10 work-hours per week.• Participated in a 13-title contract negotiation for James Patterson. Calculated P&L scenarios for each title; gathered historical data for prior author titles and organize presentation to negotiation team.

Greater Boston Area

• Maintained a portfolio of 2000+ accounts as an accounts receivable analyst and solved billing and credit issues in order to collect balances and reconcile delinquent accounts. • Analyze Dunn and Bradstreet data and other financial reports to evaluate and review account credit limits with management. Recommend payment plans and schedules to ensure payments are received and debts are collected.• Created detailed statements of accounts to send to customers outlining problem issues and explaining an action plan to resolve debts. • Analyzed aging reports to prioritize problematic accounts and effectively communicated with customers to ensure past due and credit matters are resolved to allow consistent shipment of orders. • Assisted with the analysis of cash forecast accounts and responsible for the collection of balances on a monthly basis. • Oversaw accounts for Chronicle Books as of March 2010, consisting of over 1/3 of total active accounts.

New York City Metropolitan Area

MS in Publishing - Financial Aspects of Publishing

London, United Kingdom

• Examined monthly financial results and weekly cash goals to be discussed with team leaders and at weekly company meetings. • Processed data for different accounts including bank reconciliation statements. • Handled and expedited any projects and reports as necessary. • Involved with invoice and purchase processing, and communicating with customers and senior management regarding outcomes. • Participated in a large annual event promoting strong relationships with clients and journalists.