Sr Analyst, FP&A Opex

Job Description

FP&A COE is known for its innovative thinking, best practices implementation and great customer service. Warner Bros. Discovery seeks to unlock value for the company through igniting curiosity in all of its team members, encouraging collaboration and constantly transforming the way we work.

As the Senior FP&A Opex Analyst, you support the Networks domain within the CoE, which offers you a great opportunity to participate in the overall finance transformation roadmap setting standards for the FP&A processes.

Your main responsibility is to ensure proactive and timely high-quality forecasting, reporting and analysis in the Networks OPEX P&L. You will develop deep knowledge and competencies in this area to provide business stakeholders with required information to make right and timely decisions.

Your Role Accountabilities…
• Driving OPEX Insights and Analysis - Lead OPEX analyses across managed functions, to improve understanding, identify opportunities and feed into broader strategic questions,
• Support month end close activities related to accruals/deferrals of different costs and validation of actual results in the system,
• Provide variance analysis to explain actual and forecasted performance of managed markets/regions vs prior year/plan/prior forecast,
• Support forecasts/budgets development for managed functions by working with finance business partners to review and validate their bottom's up, providing assessment and recommendations for OPEX and Capital drivers,
• Build and develop Opex reporting,
• Ad hoc Operational and Cost Management Projects e.g. transitions, allocations projects, presentations etc.

Qualifications & Experience…
• Experience in Finance function, controllership, or FP&A department,
• Very good English verbal and written communication skills,
• CIMA/ACCA qualified or education in progress desired,
• Strong analytical and numerical skills,
• Strong MS Excel (power query, power pivot) & PowerPoint skills,
• Experience in using EPM solution such as SAP BPC, Hyperion, Cognos, Anaplan,
• Experience in using one of the ERP systems as SAP, Peoplesoft, Oracle.

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.

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