Summer Intern - Business Analyst

Job Description

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What does our department do?

The WMTO Strategic Planning team focuses on fundamental decisions and actions that shape and guide WarnerMedia's technology strategy by providing insights and analysis on how the organization is doing against priorities and future opportunities. The team's goals are to effectively articulate not only where the organization is going, and the actions needed to make progress, but to also provide metrics and key performance indicators on how we are doing against those goals.

What will you be doing?

The Strategic Planning Analyst Intern role in Technology Business Analysis & Reporting is part of Strategic Planning & Executive Program Management team responsible for designing, implementing and monitoring critical business processes across WarnerMedia Global Technology & Operations (WMGTO) gathering inputs and performing a broad range of research and analysis

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES

EPMO
• Develop communication skills to craft and deliver the appropriate messages to stakeholders at all levels of the organization, driving for valued strategic business partner status
• Develop an understanding of the major technology initiatives at WarnerMedia, and the technology and media market trends in the industry
• Understand and be able to explain and defend the rationale for major technology initiatives articulated in the Executive Technology Roadmap.
• Stay aligned and collect frequent updates to be added to the executive technology roadmap for assigned technology units.
• Working with program managers and tech leadership - articulate technology capabilities that are generated from the executive technology roadmap.
• Cooperate across divisions of the Strategy & Business Operations group to articulate and publish the executive technology roadmap on a regular basis.
• Identify core risks and dependencies within and between workstreams throughout the roadmap.

Strategy Development
• On a project basis, accurately and clearly articulate strategic issues and provide relevant, logical options for solving them.
• Identify the pros and cons for each option and also performing economic and strategic impacts for each option.
• Identify key issues related to a subject and then prioritize the importance of those issues.
• Articulate in writing and mathematically, the potential impact each issue has to Warner Media overall and the technology organization (strategically and economically).

Modeling / Analysis / Research
• Create simple, accurate financial models in for pro forma forecasting. These models must have complete and clear list of assumptions and be structured with a flexible and accessible set of primary inputs to allow for complex sensitivity testing. Models must be produced quickly and accurately - and in such a manner that a co-worker could easily, correctly and clearly take over the management of the model
• Among the analytical techniques the director will be expected to perform will be:
• Perform market assessments of industries, new technologies and geographic regions.
• Creative extrapolation to estimate unknown data-points
• Outline competitive strengths and weaknesses for identified opportunities.
• Perform benchmarking of key success factors for comparables across a wide range of industries.
• Gather key data points from primary and secondary sources.
• Perform trend analysis and correlation assessments of data.

REQUIREMENTS
• Developed financial and analytical skills; strong knowledge of excel and related tools (Power BI/
• Strategic and critical thinking skills, and an ability to assist managers with execution
• Outstanding interpersonal, written, verbal and presentation communication skills
• Highly organized, with strong attention to detail, clarity, accuracy and conciseness
• Team player and self-starter with interpersonal and solution-oriented attitude and an ability to effectively operate with high energy and flexibility in a fast paced, constantly evolving team environment.
• Ability to work on multiple project concurrently
• Ability to 'direct' analysts
• Strong financial modeling skills
• Strong communication skills: written and verbal
• Strong leadership potential

What's so great about this internship?
• An opportunity to work with a great team that is passionate about the same thing you are!
• Networking opportunities to meet people that you'd like to know!
• A speaker series that introduces you to cool executives and what they do for the best brands!

Internship dates are May 26, 2020 – August 7, 2020. All interns are expected to work 40 hours per week and paid competitively based on location (relocation is not provided). Participation in the internship program is reserved for students who are currently enrolled or within 6 months post-graduation. Most positions are targeted to upperclassmen and graduate students. Candidates must be qualified and available to work at the time the application is submitted. Full-time employment is not guaranteed at the end of the program.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-g3kznr-18-220-147-154-42 in your application.