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Manager, FP&AManager FP&A – TV Distribution & Strategic Finance Company Overview

Every great story has a new beginning. 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

The Role

The Manager FPA – Content Licensing 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 with the required information for decision making.

Specific responsibilities include:

• Prepare preliminary forecasts for studio meetings and month end reporting
• Reconcile actuals vs prior forecast/budget/prior year and provide variance analysis to explain performance
• Work with Studio FP& A to develop 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
• Manage TV Ultimates for Studios submission as well as TV Assumptions and Greenlights, including SOX request and provide support for external audits request
• Ad-Hoc Reporting according to Business requirements
• 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

Basic qualifications

• At least 8 years’ experience in forecasting and analysis
• Strong English verbal and written communication skills
• Strong proficiency in excel and other data analysis techniques.
• Demonstrated experience in financial modelling
• Critical thinker and strong problem solver with excellent written and verbal communication skills; ability to frame issues, articulate findings and present optimal solutions
• Proven ability to build confidence and trust with department members and external business partners
• Experience working accurately and efficiently with high volumes of data under strict deadlines
• Motivated by challenging, high-energy environment
• Strong working knowledge of financial software packages and Microsoft Office suite
• Bachelors degree in Finance or Accounting required

Preferred qualifications

• Solid understanding of entertainment business preferred.
• Passion for leveraging data to drive business decisions, knowledge on programming (phyton, scripts developments), is a plus.
• Experience with real-business projects involving large data analysis, machine learning tools, AI (vg: Copilot) and predictive modelling
• Data Visualization and BI Tools known as Tableau, Power BI, Looker studio, SAP4 (AO, Smart View) , and programming tools as Power Query, Power automate, Phyton, SQL is a plus

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