Associate - Product Financial Planning & Analysis

Job Description

Our world-leading Product Organization team is responsible for anything a non-member or member touches when they come to the service. This team aims to improve the experiences across the diverse device ecosystem with the goal of delighting our members by offering an amazing, personalized experience that will allow them to discover relevant content.

The Product Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) team is deeply entrenched within the Product team at Netflix. We are looking for a well-rounded Associate that will be a business partner and innovate with a lens on scalability at all times. This role sits within the Product FP&A group which has financial responsibilities that include consolidations reporting, data and financial system solutions, alongside finance support of emerging areas (Studio Innovation and Animation Technology) .

The associate will collaborate to unlock financial systems capabilities which foster automation and efficiency. The role will work in cooperation with the Finance technology team as informed representative for Product FP&A to plan and implement company wide and customized system financial system solutions.

Within the Product emerging business areas, the Associate will assist with financial planning and actionable insight development. The role will be focused on driving analytics that guide critical business decisions, providing actionable insights, and strategic analysis.

The successful candidate will need to be a self-starter with tremendous skills in working and communicating with cross-functional partners as well as someone who enjoys problem solving and building solutions. This individual will be able to manage complex work streams that involve multiple stakeholders, and build strong relationships across teams. Visit our culture memo and long-term view to learn more about the unique Netflix culture and the opportunity to be part of our team.

The position reports into the Manager of Product FP&A and is based at the Company's corporate headquarters in Los Gatos.

Responsibilities
• Develop and maintain an in-depth understanding of current financial systems and processes including Workday, Anaplan, Essbase, Tableau and other headcount planning tools.
• Help drive financial reporting solutions via collaboration with business partners, Finance Technology or Data Science & Engineering team
• Support and deliver long and short term financial forecasts for our emerging business areas including Studio Product Innovation, Animation Technology, and other areas of strategic innovation.
• Create insightful presentations to summarize analyses and facilitate decision-making for leadership.
• Build strong relationships with stakeholders and be able to effectively communicate tracking to forecasts and insights into expense trends with recommendations on next steps
• Gather requirements and develop dashboards and Analytical reporting templates
• Quickly visualize data and provide in a business relevant context
• Flexibility to lead change and adapt to changing business needs
• Prepare monthly and quarterly Product management reporting
• Analyze budget/forecast variances to actual and review with management team
• Work with cross-functional partners to provide ad hoc business-related analysis

Qualifications
• Must have 3+ years of experience in a highly analytical environment with relevant experience in a corporate finance setting.
• Must be a self-starter, disciplined to work effectively autonomously, while also collaborating with cross-functional teams.
• A successful candidate will have a strong track record of identifying key questions; defining, performing and coordinating analyses; and communicating findings in a clear and concise way.
• Comfortable with ambiguity and able to frame key questions and the analyses needed to solve complex problems.
• Have the ability to learn quickly, thrive in a fast-paced environment, and exhibit the highest personal and professional standards of integrity and ethics.
• Extreme proficiency with MS Excel
or G-Sheets is expected; shares passion for analytics, and leveraging information systems to drive insight and distill complexity to build influence.
• Experience working with relational databases, data, and reports; Workday, SQL, Tableau, and Anaplan knowledge a plus

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