FP&A Experience: Strong background in maintaining financial models, conducting variance analysis, forecasting, AOP/LRP, Quarter Closes, and budgeting within a fast-paced, data driven environment (ideally with exposure to streaming, media, or entertainment industries, but not required)
o Also open to candidates with controllership/accounting experience interested in pivoting to finance
Collaborative business partner: Partner with domestic marketing departments to deliver accurate forecasts and operational finance support, establishing yourself as a trusted advisor across the organization.
Technical & Analytical Skills: Advanced proficiency with excel and financial modeling. Ability to acquire, organize, and analyze large amounts of data
Adaptability & Curiosity: Comfortable with ambiguity and navigating change in a dynamic environment
Accountability and Timely Execution: Ability to take ownership of tasks and projects, ensuring deliverables are completed accurately and on schedule with minimal supervision or being able to communicate proactively about progress and potential risks.
Comfortable with Repetition and Detail, Balanced by Strategic View: Willingness to perform repetitive and detailed financial tasks with accuracy, while knowing when to elevate analysis to assess broader trends and support high-level decision making.
Project Management: Ability to manage multiple projects, ad hoc requests, and collaborate with multiple stakeholders
3-5 yrs of Direct to Consumer Experience
Must have strong Excel skills
Will support Direct to Consumer (DTC) Business, including client streaming OTTS. This position plays a pivotal role in the strategy and financial planning for DTC Marketing and will work closely with key stakeholders across Marketing, Finance, and Content Planning to help execute on DTC financial goals.
The role will be focused on marketing spend, with responsibility for compiling marketing forecasts and tracking actual spend with a high degree of focus on marketing efficiency as it relates to acquiring subscribers.
Forecasts and reporting will aim to provide operational teams and executive management a snapshot into expected marketing spend and will also serve as the basis for ad hoc scenario analysis.
The pace and cadence for change at Client Streaming necessitates an ability to manage multiple projects, collaborate with multiple stakeholders, and roll up the sleeves to support this important segment of The Client.
Basic Qualifications:
Build and track marketing budgets through short-term and long-term planning cycles (e.g. Forecasts, Annual Operating Plans, 5 Year Plan), as well as ad-hoc analyses, including special projects at the request of senior management
Collaborate directly with domestic marketing departments to create forecasts and provide operational finance support
Work with cross-functional teams to consistently identify and improve operational efficiencies across both finance and operational departments, particularly as it relates to quarterly close, budgeting and reporting
Collaborate with marketing finance across all DTC services on various analyses to identify most efficient marketing tactics and best approach going forward
Develop impactful, compelling presentation materials (decks, notes, write-ups, backup materials, etc.) that effectively communicates financial projections, drivers, business performance, risks and opportunities for different audiences including executive management to help inform decision-making
Coordinate with international regions to oversee and communicate consolidated international marketing forecasts and trends
Required Education: BA/BS