International Digital Finance & Insights Director
Discovery Communications
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Position Summary
Director International Digital Financial & Strategic Insights
Position Details:
Division: Finance
Location: Chiswick
Department: Digital FP&A
Reports to: Senior Director International Digital Financial & Strategic Insights
Contract: Permanent
Position Overview:
Reporting into the Senior Director International Digital Financial & Strategic Insights, the Director International Digital Financial & Strategic Insights will support on key initiatives for International Digital (especially Discovery ). Supporting FP&A leaders and operational management teams in creating more efficient and streamlined processes, to enable greater time for identifying opportunities for value generation.
Responsibilities
• Review, analyze and track key projects performance vs. plan (e.g. acquisition of premium sports right) generating and sharing learnings with teams and senior management to be applied in future projects
• Cooperate closely with central finance team in structuring internal projects such as budget or LRP processes and support the business FP&A leaders to make processes more efficient and shift focus to create actionable insights
• Support multi-functional finance projects as a digital representative coordinating digital stakeholders, such as D revenue recognition project or impairment procedure
• Create process flows to ensure efficient and compliant workflows
• Lead and coordinate organizational structuring and execute change with focus on deploying funds most efficiently (e.g. ESD / D migration)
• Identify opportunities from analysis of existing projects, thereby generating learnings and better allocation of Discovery investments and allocation of resources
• Drive standardization across International Digital FP&A Financial & Strategic Insights working closely with the CoE and GBO teams
• Work proactively on tasks with minimal supervision and collaborate with the International leadership teams, accepting feedback and refining work as required
Requirements
• A background in consulting, investment banking or corporate development
• Experience working with DTC business models and ideally firsthand experience working within the media industry
• Experience with subscription/advertising-based business models, especially in media, is preferred
• Strong leadership skills, with demonstrable experience of managing and coaching a team
• Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, matrix environment with quickly evolving, often uncertain, business goals
• Ability to confidently and concisely present information
• Excellent communication skills both written and verbal, with the ability to build relationships and networks at all levels
• Pro-active self-starter, who uses their own initiative
• Excellent academic qualifications, with a degree in a numeric or business-related field, as well as 8 years of work experience