Senior Strategic Planning Analyst

Job Description

Your New Role...

We are looking for an Analyst who will be responsible for generating sales reports to support the needs of the sales team and ensure they have the current sales information available. This is an instrumental role within CNN International Commercial Strategic Planning.

The Analyst will also be responsible for maintaining underlying Sales data supporting the regular and ad-hoc reports.

Working from our London Head office, you will have the opportunity to work for a truly global company. With global scope and local focus, we'll find and share stories that matter to our audiences.

Your Role Accountabilities...
• Provide sales reporting to communicate sales performance to Senior Management. Responsible for working directly with efforts sales teams across multiple international markets to quantify weekly / monthly / quarterly / yearly performances relative to budgets and targets.
• Produce ad-hoc management reports. The reports can range from pricing and inventory, management to category and client detail revenue, and entail working with revenue and traffic databases to sift through data, analyse and eventually extract and synthesise key relevant information.
• Process and Reporting Improvement. Identify areas of reporting efficiency and propose structured recommendations to management.

Areas of Accountability

While the position has no direct revenue accountability, it does interface directly with sales offices worldwide. In addition, the position is integral to managing digital advertising revenue across a large portfolio of websites.

Qualifications & Experience...
• Accounting/Finance related degree; CIMA or ACA qualified
• Advanced Excel skills as well as Access database skills and familiarity with reporting systems
• Excellent data analysis, presentation, written and verbal communication skills
• Attention to detail
• Ability to handle multiple projects, ability to prioritize, meet deadlines
• Proactive
• Relevant, 3+ years' experience at media agency, media owner
• Preferable experience with digital media agency, digital media owner
• Direct Sales experience
• Business partner experience
• Knowledge of online research tools

How We Get Things Done…

This last bit is probably the most important! Here at WBD, our guiding principles are the core values by which we operate and are central to how we get things done. You can find them at www.wbd.com/guiding-principles/ along with some insights from the team on what they mean and how they show up in their day to day. We hope they resonate with you and look forward to discussing them during your interview.

The Legal Bits…

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, regardless of sex, gender identity, ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marital status, pregnancy, parenthood, disability or any other category protected by law.

If you're a qualified candidate with a disability and you need a reasonable accommodation in order to apply for this position, please contact us at recruitadmin@wbd.com.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-rn5k15-3-138-33-178-42 in your application.