Manager, Financial Analyst - International TV Cl

Job Description

The Manager – International TV Distribution will be responsible for providing timely and accurate forecasting, reporting and analysis for Warner Bros. Discovery Studios, working with business finance counterparts to gather inputs and understand drivers. You will develop deep competencies in this area, providing business and finance stakeholders the required information for decision making.

Your Role Accountabilities…
• Prepare preliminary forecasts for studio meetings and month end reporting.
• Consolidate and analyze the P&L of different territories, ensuring accurate reflection of financial performance across regions.
• Coordinate the overall forecast process, ensuring timely and accurate submission of forecasts to relevant stakeholders.
• Reconcile actuals vs prior forecast/budget/prior year and provide variance analysis to explain performance.
• Work with studio FP&A to produce forecast, budget, and long-range plans.
• Work with studio FP&A to evaluate financial impact of potential strategy decisions.
• Manage Ad Hoc analysis and financial data requests as needed, generating insights.
• Demonstrate and maintain high standards of accountability to deliver superior quality financial information on timely basis to business FP&A.
• Build strong relationships with business partner FP&A teams to enable the flow of information and knowledge sharing.
• Support development of systems, tools, and processes to facilitate efficient and accurate forecasting and analysis.
• Drive process simplification initiatives. Collaborate across boundaries and share best practices with other FP&A teams.
• Participate in meetings with business finance partners to understand forecast drivers and present prepared forecast and analysis data.

Qualifications & Experience…
• At least 6 years' experience in forecasting and analysis.
• Strong English verbal and written communication skills (must have).
• Strong proficiency in excel and other data analysis techniques. Demonstrated experience in financial modelling.

Preferred Qualifications…
• Solid understanding of entertainment business preferred (Consumer Products and/or Global Themed Experiences Industry).
• Strong Accounting knowledge preferred.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel, with Power Pivot/Query experience preferred.
• Experience with SAP ERP, COSMOS and BW (BeX and AO) Applications.

Experience with SMART, and Oracle EPM SmartView is a plus and highly desirable.

Championing Inclusion at WBD
Warner Bros. Discovery embraces the opportunity to build a workforce that reflects the diversity of our society and the world around us. Being an equal opportunity employer means that we take seriously our responsibility to consider qualified candidates on the basis of merit, regardless of sex, gender identity, ethnicity, union status, age, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marital status, pregnancy, parenthood, disability or any other category protected by law.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-d5vq5e-18-189-184-42-42 in your application.