Job Description
Overview
FP&A COE is known for its innovative thinking, best practices implementation and great customer service. Warner Bros. 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 Global Real Estate OPEX Manager, you manage one of the domains within the OPEX CoE which offers you a great opportunity to participate in the overall finance transformation roadmap setting standards for the financial processes relate to real estate spend segment for annual $1Bn+ cost spend.
Your main responsibility is to ensure proactive and timely high quality forecasting, reporting and analysis in the Global OPEX and CAPEX spend including 3rd party contractual rental expenses and maintance costs related to 50+ worldwide locations and supporting the business partners in decision making. You will manage a team of FP&A analysts and you ensure deep knowledge and competencies are developed within the team. You will deploy world class end to end financial processes within the managed domain and ensure alignment with other FP&A teams and business partners.
Responsibilities
• Managing the Long Range Plan, Annual Operating Plan and Monthly Financial Forecasts for Global Real Estate OPEX in Corporate segment in collaboration with business partners and Finance colleagues
• Provide high quality financial information and insights from managed OPEX area to business partners to support strategic and tactical decision making process
• Monitor actuals utilization vs budget/prior year and provide required commentary on key variances
• Early identification and communication to stakeholders of risks and opportunities related to managed area
• Initiate and design standard FP&A processes within the manged OPEX domain and ensure effectiveness and efficiency of these processes
• Support with productivity analysis, reporting and control mechanisms to ensure targets realisation
• Manage and develop a team of FP&A analysts and ensure robust FP&A workforce (knowledge management, competencies development, coaching)
• Provide in-depth understanding of the business by translating variances in KPI's and initiate corrective actions
• Advise and drive developments in FP&A systems (e.g. EPM, data visualization, self service dashboards) to provide more accurate and timely reporting to stakeholders
• Work proactively together with the Business Partners on special projects in the area of Networks cost
• Manage communication and responsiveness to stakeholder requests and questions in a timely manner based on criticality of business
• Collaborate with Accounting and Transactional Finance teams to improve financial processes related to managed OPEX area
• Collaborate with Procurement teams and support contract negotiations with required analysis and reporting
Qualifications
• 5+ years relevant experience preferred
• CIMA/ACCA qualified or edcution in progress desired
• Experience in managing team (recruitment, coaching, competencies development)
• Progressive experience and deep understanding of the business from finance perspective
• Working experience with financial control, management reporting and business analyses, preferably within an international environment
• Intellectual capacity to digest complex information, see trends and analysis through data and to translate this into concrete actions
• Project management, change management and process improvement experience
• Strong IT affinity to drive required digital agenda in FP&A (EPM ie. Hyperion, SAP BPC/SAC, , BI tools ie. Power BI)
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Strong team player
• Business driven attitude and a sparring partner for management
• Excellent analytical skills
• Pro-active and hands-on
• High drive and energy level
• Your way of working is characterized by a high level of accuracy
• Fluent in English
What's in it for you?
• Hybrid work model, flexible working hours
• Free access to player.pl
• Benefit package: private medical health care, life insurance, MyBenefit cafeteria including sport card, social funds, retirement pension plans, recognition platform, employee referral program
• Work-life balance initiatives: wellbeing platform, yoga, educational webinars, Employee Assistance Program, internal media initiatives
• Training & development: sharing the cost of English lessons, Employee Resource Groups, Bridge learning platform, sharing sessions with experts
• CSR activities: volunteering, eco & social initiatives
• Casual dress code
• Parking space available for booking
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Jobcode: Reference SBJ-g4m29v-18-117-196-184-42 in your application.