Financial Analyst, Content Strategy

Job Description

Paramount+, a direct-to-consumer digital subscription video on-demand and live streaming service from Paramount Global, combines live sports, breaking news, and a mountain of entertainment. The premium streaming service features an expansive library of original series, hit shows and popular movies across every genre from world-renowned brands and production studios, including BET, CBS, Comedy Central, MTV, Nickelodeon, Paramount Pictures and the Smithsonian Channel. The service is also the streaming home to unmatched sports programming, including every CBS Sports event, from golf to football to basketball and more, plus exclusive streaming rights for major sports properties, including some of the world's biggest and most popular soccer leagues. Paramount+ also enables subscribers to stream local CBS stations live across the US in addition to the ability to stream Paramount Streaming's other live channels: CBSN for 24/7 news, CBS Sports HQ for sports news and analysis, and ET Live for entertainment coverage.

The Financial Analyst will support the Entertainment division of CBS Interactive and will focus primarily on Paramount+, our premium subscription product, which houses content from CBS, BET, Comedy Central, MTV, Nickelodeon, Smithsonian Channel, TV Land, VH1, Paramount Pictures and other sports programming as well as original streaming content.

Much of the Analyst's time will be dedicated to the valuation of existing content in the service as well as valuing content procurement opportunities, ranging from original series to live sports to movies. This role is focused on content strategy, therefore it will be modeling intensive and require an independent and creative thinker. Attention to detail is significant as analyses help inform long-term digital strategy.

This position offers the right candidate an excellent opportunity within a successful and growing global media organization. It will provide wide ranging exposure to the evolving interactive content industry while working within the broader media umbrella of ViacomCBS Corporation.
Overview and Responsibilities:
• Responsible for creating and maintaining complex financial models to support the budgeting, forecasting and expansion of ViacomCBS Paramount+.
• Assist in maintaining show production budgets as they pertain to existing and planned original series, such as Star Trek Discovery and The Good Fight.
• Build and update Paramount+ original series ''greenlight'' models in an effort to scope the value of specific content on the service.
• Work with internal business partners (Data Insights Group, Marketing, Entertainment Paramount+ Development/Content & Strategy, Studios) to model new Paramount+ expansion
opportunities, including live sports, kid's content, and movies.
• Handle detailed expense and revenue budgets for digital content housed on Paramount+, including Rights & Participations and Marketing budgets.
• Ad hoc requests and analyses will be frequent

Basic Qualifications:
• Bachelor's Degree required
• Minimum of 2 +years experience in FP&A, finance or equivalent quantitative roles

Additional Qualifications:
• High level of proficiency in Excel, experience in preparing complex financial models and manipulating large datasets
• Strong communicator with the ability to moderate based on audience and demonstrate an ability to partner with a range of cross functional partners
• Experience in a highly analytical environment
• Strong work ethic and an acute attention to detail required
• Ability to work quickly and accurately on multiple projects concurrently
• Finance/Economics/Mathematics/Accounting major preferred
• Rigorous modeling experience
• Prior experience in digital streaming is helpful

Paramount is an equal opportunity employer (EOE) including disability/vet.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-gk99q0-3-145-156-46-42 in your application.