Senior FP&A Analyst

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 Senior Analyst, you support 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 costs management.

Your main responsibility is to ensure proactive and timely high-quality forecasting, reporting and analysis. You will develop deep knowledge and competencies to provide business stakeholders with required information to make educated decisions.

Responsibilities
• Supporting the contract negotiations with Music Rights societies including the creation and analysis of business cases, negotiation scenarios, coordination of financial and non-financial data inputs
• Supporting the month end close process from an FP&A perspective with variance analysis focusing on cost P&L
• Preparing and updating monthly forecast submission and loading data into related systems
• Supporting the annual budget process, including the design of templates, calculation and the critical review of planning assumptions
• Supporting settlements process with various societies
• Summarizing key findings to support discussions and decision making with the business
• Developing actionable insights which aim to improve business unit / regional profitability
• Providing insight of financial performance through accurate, timely and relevant reporting
• Performing ad hoc tasks and reporting related to cost management and governance meetings as appropriate
• Maintaining and improving the processes supporting financial planning and analysis activities

Qualifications
• 3+ 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
• Strong analytical and numerical skills, with proven ability to distill complex findings into a 'story' with actionable findings to support commercial decision making
• Strong presentation and communication skills, with proven record of effectively presenting to both senior internal and external stakeholders
• Be able to meet stringent deadlines and work under pressure while showing excellent attention to detail
• Knowledge of media industry dynamics and key metrics impacting revenue would be an asset
• Advanced Excel skills
• Experience in using EPM solution such as SAP BPC, Hyperion, Cognos, Anaplan

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, partial funding company kindergarten, 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

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-gk1e34-3-131-13-37-42 in your application.