Ad Sales FP&A Manager
Discovery Communications
Warsaw, MZThis was removed by the employer on 5/6/2021 6:32:00 AM PST
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General overview
As the Ad Sales FP&A Manager, you manage one of the domains within the CoE which offers you a great opportunity to participate in the overall finance transformation roadmap setting standards for the FP&A processes related to ad sales revenue management.
Your main responsibility is to ensure proactive and timely high-quality forecasting, reporting and analysis in the ad sales revenue domain. You will manage a team of analysts and you ensure deep knowledge and competencies are developed within the team to provide business stakeholders with required information to make educated decisions.
Responsibilities
1. Driving Commercial Insights and Analysis
• Lead commercial analyses on ad sales questions across managed markets, to improve understanding, identify opportunities and feed into broader strategic questions
• Responsible for development of standard SMT reporting with pacing and ad sales KPIs to highlight important trends, events or unusuals based on internal and external revenue drivers that require SMT attention
• Generate insights on current ad sales questions, opportunities and challenges
• Manage ad hoc strategic and commercial financial requests i.e. preparing business plans, financial models and scenario analysis for situations including potential new channel launches or ceases, M&A
• Research and analyze market, client and buying trends that shape the external media marketplace and understand their relevance to Discovery
2. Providing core FP&A cycle activities local teams
• Support month end close activities related to accruals/deferrals of ad sales revenue and related 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 markets by working with commercial team to review and validate their bottom’s up, providing assessment and recommendations of revenue drivers to local finance directors
Requirements
• 6 years experience in Finance function
• CIMA / ACCA certification would be preferred
• Strong strategic and clear thinking skills proven by past experience in commercial area
• Knowledge of media ad sales markets and dynamics of 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 presentation and communication skills, with proven record of effectively presenting to both senior internal and external stakeholders
• Strong analytical and numerical skills, with proven ability to distil complex findings into a ‘story’ with actionable findings to support commercial decision making
• Advanced Excel skills
• Experience in using EPM solution such as SAP BPC, Hyperion, Cognos, OneStream