FP&A Commercial Senior Analyst

Job Description

Every great story has a new beginning. We're excited to announce that Discovery and WarnerMedia have combined to become Warner Bros. Discovery. WBD is a premier global media and entertainment company offering audiences the world's most differentiated and complete portfolio of content, brands and franchises across television, film, sports, news, streaming and gaming. We're home to the world's best storytellers, creating world-class products for consumers. From brilliant creatives to technology trailblazers and beyond, join us as we step into the next chapter.

Warner Bros. Discovery is a premier global media and entertainment company that offers audiences the world's most differentiated and complete portfolio of content, brands and franchises across television, film, streaming and gaming. The new company combines WarnerMedia's premium entertainment, sports and news assets with Discovery's leading non-fiction and international entertainment and sports businesses.

Qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, mental or physical disability, and genetic information, marital status, citizenship status, military status, protected veteran status or any other category protected by law.

The job:

Your main responsibility is to ensure proactive and timely high-quality forecasting, reporting, and analysis in the ad sales or distribution revenue domain. You will develop deep knowledge and competencies in the commercial areas to provide business stakeholders with the required information to make educated decisions.

Responsibilities:

1. Providing core FP&A cycle activities to local teams
• Support month-end close activities related to accruals/deferrals of revenue and related costs and validation of actual results in the system;
• Provide variance analysis to explain the actual and forecasted performance of managed markets/regions vs prior year/plan/prior forecast;
• Support forecasts/annual budgets development for managed markets by working with commercial team and market FP&A leaders to review and validate their bottom's up, providing assessment and recommendations of revenue drivers to local finance directors;

2. Driving Revenue Insights and Analysis
• Lead revenue analysis across managed markets to understand performance (customer, agency, industry, KPI trends analysis);
• Responsible for the development of standard SMT and local commercial team reporting to highlight important trends, events, or unusual;
• Generate insights on current revenue performance questions, opportunities, and challenges;
• Manage ad hoc strategic and BAU related financial requests i.e. preparing business plans, financial models and scenario analysis for situations including potential new channel launches or ceases, M&A);

3. Ad hoc Operational and Commercial Projects
• Drive simplification projects to improve efficiency in working in commercial FP&A area (ie. forecast modeling automation with machine learning, creation of global revenue data warehouse reporting);
• Assist the business partners and central and regional teams with commercial related projects;
• Collaborate across boundaries, share best practices working with different teams;
• Gain a comprehensive understanding of different markets in each region;
• Establish helpful productive relationships with key contacts in HQ and across the regions to encourage the flow of information and share knowledge;

Requirements:
• Experience in the Finance function in the FP&A department or Big Four companies;
• Advanced English Skills;
• Advanced Excel skills;
• CIMA / ACCA / CPA certification or in progress would be preferred;
• Knowledge of media industry dynamics and key metrics impacting revenue would be an asset;
• Be able to meet stringent deadlines and work under pressure while showing excellent attention to detail;
• Strong analytical and numerical skills;
• Experience in using EPM solutions such as SAP BPC, Hyperion, and Anaplan is preferred.

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.

If you're a qualified candidate with a disability and you need a reasonable accommodation in order to apply for this position, please contact us at recruitadmin@warnermedia.com.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-r79yxq-3-149-251-155-42 in your application.