Business Partner, Finance Procurement Operations

Job Description

We are looking for an experienced finance professional, who has sourcing experience, to support our end to end finance procurement operations with a focus on partnering with the Marketing and Publicity teams as they execute on marketing campaigns of our growing slate of local and global content.

The ideal candidate for this role is someone that will help drive operational process improvements, have the courage to challenge prevailing assumptions, has a fundamental understanding of accounting treatments related to title marketing, knowledge of the P2P workflow, and experience with developing strong cross-functional relationships, ideally with business partners across Marketing, Accounts Payable, FP&A, Accounting, Legal and systems. This role is based out of Los Angeles and is not a remote position.

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In this role you will partner with the following cross-functional partners:
• Marketing and/or Publicity Business Owners - Execute all finance related tasks (procurement support, reviewing and re-negotiating contracts, vendor onboarding and management, creating purchase orders, reviewing invoices, expense reporting) and be an embedded partner and active contributor across various teams.
• Accounts Payable - Create POs where applicable and provide non-PO invoice coding to enable timely and accurate invoice processing and accurate financial reporting.
• FP&A - Ensure accurate coding to provide meaningful reporting and identify opportunities to use data to better inform business decisions.
• Accounting - Drive an accurate and timely month-end close by owning the accrual process and explaining budget to actuals variances.
• Legal - Partner with legal team, review and re-negotiate contracts, understand fundamental legal terms and impact to accounting completeness and accuracy
• Systems - Design, simplify, and automate finance and payment workflows and partner on system enhancements to help improve workflows to scale.

Responsibilities Include:
• Communicating with the Marketing and/or Publicity teams to drive the procurement of services from our vendors and understand the status/timeline of delivery of services.
• Setting-up purchase orders (PO's) in to ensure appropriate classification of expenses to enable financial reporting and analysis.
• Managing vendors and invoicing processes: reviewing vendor records, ensuring timely billing, approving invoices, and working with Accounting to ensure accuracy of accrued services.
• Partner closely with the business to support their sourcing decisions and vendor partnerships for scale, cost efficiencies, and to ensure a diverse and sustainably focused supplier chain to keep pace with the evolving needs of our business.
• Driving projects that help to simplify and automate manual workflows. Actively participate in system features development and user acceptance testing.
• Owning month-end close responsibilities for assigned areas of the business and partner with the accounting team to ensure accurate and complete reporting of spend.

Qualities We're Looking For:
• 3-5+ years of relevant Finance and/or Accounting experience
• Experience with sourcing, procurement, and purchase orders, and understanding how to find ways to optimize the workflows
• Strong communication skills, business acumen, and the ability to lead cross-functional meetings
• Relationship builder - Ability to cultivate strong cross functional relationships and communicate effectively with team members and business partners
• Ability to take ownership of tasks while handling competing priorities
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to navigate large data sets
• Strong enthusiasm for implementing systems and processes
• Curiosity and passion - Our team members ask probing questions, challenge the status quo, make changes to improve processes, and have fun while doing it; having a positive attitude and never settling for ''good enough'' are key
• Adaptable - You are comfortable in an ever-changing ecosystem of marketing, finance and accounting issues and projects
• For LA-based candidate, the ability to take occasional trips to the Los Gatos office in Northern California
• Industry experience is a plus
• ERP and Procurement systems experience with Workday Financials and Tableau
• Bachelor's Degree in Accounting or Finance; MBA and/or CPA

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-g4we27-18-191-88-249-42 in your application.