FP&A Opex Manager

Job Description

Overview

FP&A COE is known for its innovative thinking, best practices implementation and great customer service. Discovery seeks to unlock value for the company through igniting curiosity in all of its team members, encouraging collaboration and constantly transforming the way we work.

As the FP&A Manager, you support revenue and expense 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.
Your main responsibility is to ensure proactive and timely high-quality forecasting, reporting and analysis in the P&L. You will develop deep knowledge and competencies in this area to provide business stakeholders with required information to make educated decisions.

Responsibilities

1. Driving Insights and Analysis
• Lead analyses across managed markets, to improve understanding, identify opportunities and feed into broader strategic questions
• Responsible for development of standard SMT and local budget holders reporting to highlight important trends, events or unusuals
• Generate insights on current P&L questions, opportunities and challenges
• Manage ad hoc strategic and other financial requests i.e. preparing business plans, financial models and scenario analysis for situations including potential new channel launches or ceases, M&A

2. Provide variance analysis to explain actual and forecasted performance of managed markets/regions vs prior year/plan/prior forecast
• Support month end close activities related to accruals/deferrals of different costs, revenues 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 budget holders to review and validate their bottom's up, providing assessment and recommendations of drivers to local finance directors

3. Ad hoc Operational and Cost Management Projects
• Drive simplification projects to improve efficiency in working in FP&A area (ie. forecast modelling automation with machine learning, creation of global OPEX data warehouse reporting and self-service BI tools)
• Assist the business partners, central and regional teams with various projects
• Collaborate across boundaries, share best practice working with different teams
• Gain comprehensive understanding of different dynamics in managed region
• Establish helpful productive relationships with key contacts in HQ and across the regions to encourage the flow of information and share knowledge

4. Responsible for SPOC function with one of the market FP&A stakeholders
• The role also acts as a single point of contact in case of cross-functional requests coming from local Finance Director. The responsibility here includes coordination of multiple teams (COE analysts or other Finance teams), data gathering and analysis and escalation if needed. The role also reports on consolidated P&L to regional Finance Director for the month-end cycles including monthly close and forecast, as well as budgeting.

Qualifications
• 5+ years experience in Finance function in FP&A department
• Very good English verbal and written communication skills
• CIMA / ACCA / CPA certification or in progress would be preferred
• Knowledge of media industry dynamics and 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 analytical and numerical skills
• Advanced Excel skills
• Experience in using EPM solution such as SAP BPC, Hyperion, Cognos, Anaplan

What's in it for you?
• Possibility to work in a highly regarded organization with international exposure and friendly and supportive atmosphere
• Attractive benefit package
• Partial home office
• Flexible working hours

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-re4w67-18-223-196-211-42 in your application.