Manager Games FPA & Strategy

Job Description

This role cuts across both Finance & Strategy and helps drive critical decision making for WB Games. This role provides supports a variety of cross-functional strategic projects that will include creating and owning long-term WB Games strategy, evaluating market opportunities, supporting Games greenlight decisions through building Ultimates, supporting business development and providing daily operational management decision making support. The ability to create clear and concise presentation decks that translate complex business problems into easy-to-understand narratives is critical for this role. Additionally, this role will be heavily involved in all aspects of consolidated financial planning, including forecasts, budgets, and long-range plans for WB Games. This is a highly visible position where you will be exposed to senior leaders within WB Games. An ownership mindset, proactivity, and the ability to balance multiple time-sensitive projects are essential for success in this role.

Your Role Accountabilities
• Provide FP&A for WB Games Business
• Create/Manage creation of Game specific Ultimates
• Consolidated financial planning, including forecasts, budgets, long range plans, and Ultimates for each game (excluding individual Studio FP&A/Production Finance and Cash)
• Leverage understanding of WB Games to identify, propose and implement initiatives to help achieve annual targets
• Review, synthesize, and create summaries of financial reports to senior leaders, including identifying key opportunities, risks, and gap-closing ideas
• Partner with business units to develop long range plans aligned with WBD growth initiatives
• Support and balance WB Games evolution- balancing near term profits with long-term business evolution
• Support Strategically for WB Games Business
• Prepare the Long range strategic plan
• Lead the assumptions and input into the official Games LRP
• Support the creation and articulation of the 3-5 year WB Games strategy to build a competitive advantage and increase profitability of the division
• Corporate / management presentations (board decks, QBRs, other management storytelling support)
• Growth related special projects
• Varying in nature and require flexible and creative out of the box thinking

Qualifications & Experience
• Minimum of 4 years of experience that includes one or a combination of the following:
• Management consulting or investment banking within the Media, Technology or Games practices
• Strategy, corporate development, or business development at a media, sports, games, technology or direct-to-consumer company
• FP&A leader at a media, sports, games, technology or DTC company
• Games Experience highly preferred or general Media and Entertainment
• Experience using modeling and analysis to inform key business decisions (building forecast P&Ls, ROI and breakeven analysis, etc.)
• BA Finance or Accounting with CPA required
• Strong communication skills and a keen eye for presentation design with the ability to distil complex concepts and analyses into clear, easy-to-understand presentations / summaries for senior executives
• Passionate about the Games space with a voracious appetite for industry news
• Strong interpersonal skills with a collaborative DNA
• High level of integrity, strong work ethic, deep intellectual curiosity, and out-of-the-box thinking
• Ability to thrive and take initiative in fast-paced, ambiguous situations

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, 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.

In compliance with local law, we are disclosing the compensation, or a range thereof, for roles in locations where legally required. Actual salaries will vary based on several factors, including but not limited to external market data, internal equity, location, skill set, experience, and/or performance. Base pay is just one component of Warner Bros. Discovery's total compensation package for employees. Pay Range: $95,550.00 - $177,450.00 salary per year. Other rewards may include annual bonuses, short- and long-term incentives, and program-specific awards. In addition, Warner Bros. Discovery provides a variety of benefits to employees, including health insurance coverage, an employee wellness program, life and disability insurance, a retirement savings plan, paid holidays and sick time and vacation.

If you're a qualified candidate with an arrest or conviction record, please know that your application will be considered in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.

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