Executive Director, Domestic Distribution Finance

Job Description

Executive Director, Domestic Distribution Finance

Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) is a subsidiary of Tokyo-based Sony Group Corporation. SPE's global operations encompass motion picture production, acquisition, and distribution; television production, acquisition, and distribution; television networks; digital content creation and distribution; operation of studio facilities; and development of new entertainment products, services, and technologies.

Sony Pictures Television operates dozens of wholly-owned or joint-venture production companies around the world. SPE's Motion Picture Group production organizations include Columbia Pictures, Screen Gems, TriStar Pictures, 3000 Pictures, Sony Pictures Animation, Stage 6 Films, AFFIRM Films, Sony Pictures International Productions, and Sony Pictures Classics.

Sony Pictures Television (SPT) is one of the television industry's leading content providers, producing, distributing, and carrying programming worldwide in every genre and for every platform. In addition to managing one of the industry's largest libraries of award-winning feature films, television shows and formats, SPT is home to a thriving global content business, operating a robust portfolio of wholly-owned and joint-venture production companies across the US, Europe, Latin America, and Asia Pacific, as well as linear and digital channels around the world. SPT is a Sony Pictures Entertainment Company.

Reporting into Senior Vice President of Finance, the Executive Director, Domestic Distribution Finance is accountable for all aspects of FP&A responsibilities to support the US Distribution business, managing all planning processes. The individual will collaborate with commercial partners to understand business performance and direction and effectively articulate commercial drivers and context to senior management and finance stakeholders throughout the organization. The ideal candidate will have a strong track record of process improvement, comfort working with multiple financial and planning systems, excellent analytical, collaboration, presentation, and communication skills.

The followings are the core responsibilities related to businesses with over $1.5 billion in revenue:
• Responsible for P&L, cash flow, and balance sheet planning processes related to US Distribution sales of SPE Content. This includes coordination, review, and analysis of actual, planning (mid-range plan, quarterly forecast, and budget), investment / commitment approvals, ad hoc and KPI management reporting, utilizing a critical-thinking lens as well as managing the variance explanations with a root-cause analysis
• In the near term, partner with FP&A colleagues across the company (distribution, production, corporate) to significantly reduce the duration of our quarterly forecast cycles, creating opportunities for increased collaboration with commercial partners and value-add analyses.
• Support monthly close of US TVD P&L and cash flow, providing SPE management with financial results review shortly after monthly, quarterly and year end close, including an analysis of budget/forecast to actual results, trend analysis or other important commercial context & insights
• Work in partnership with Sales Planning and Content Strategy, review title ultimates quarterly and provide recommendations to senior management
• Work closely with sales and sales planning teams to understand market environment and deal expectations to effectively communicate commercial drivers to finance senior management and stakeholders outside of distribution
• Assist with financial analyses in support of significant new deals, including impact to production divisions
• Collaborate with heads of operation to understand and help defining financial targets and goals, further supporting the management in executing financial goals
• Develop and implement processes to leverage existing global tools and streamline workflows, transforming legacy manual processes into integrated digital/automated processes & partnering with global finance distribution colleagues to share best practices.
• Review long-term company financial metric model, sensitivity analysis & scenario cases for strategic planning
• Assess and evaluate financial performance with regard to operational strategic goals, identification of opportunities and mitigate risks and collaborate with senior management to set KPIs
• Perform and manage insightful analyses, reports, and presentations on relevant operating and financial metrics in an easy-to-understand format to senior executives to influence decision-making
• Collaborate, build, and maintain strong relationships with various groups internal / external groups
• Efficiently work with cross-functional teams to identify financial value drivers & maintain the highest level of data quality
• Review / conduct analysis of key business/financial drivers, performance indicators, internal development efforts, industry trends, competitive landscape, and other defined assumptions to provide value-added inputs to help decision making in executing strategy
• Supervise direct / indirect reports and prioritize deliverables
• Complete special projects for operations and finance as necessary.

REQUIREMENTS & PREFERENCES
• 8+ years Corporate FP&A in media entertainment and / or management consulting / banking experience including 2+ years of managerial experience
• Prior experience in sales distribution finance and/or digital space is preferred
• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, Economics, or other relevant field that demonstrated quantitative orientation
• MBA is preferred but not required
• Expert in financial modeling and analysis, including annual budgeting and long-term strategic planning as Corporate FP&A
• High proficiency in MS Excel and PowerPoint with data analytics & ability to translate information / data into insight-driven story telling management report / presentation
• Ability to analyze and work with high volume of data from multiple sources
• SAP/BPC and/or Essbase/PBCS knowledge preferred. Power BI or Tableau experience a plus

CORE SKILLS / KEY COMPETENCIES
• Experience in transforming legacy manual processes into integrated digital/automated processes, as well as identifying and organizing data to achieve a better outcome for analyses
• Able to quickly grasp new concepts, problem solve and communicate with finance and non-finance partners through tactical execution
• Ability to operate effectively in a deadline driven environment, managing competing priorities and independently managing projects through completion
• Proactive, self-starter and independent thinker, with strong ability to collaborate across team environment
• Team player, upbeat, and focused, with a strong passion to learn and succeed
• Excellent oral and written communication skills with multiple levels of the organization
• Thrive in a fast-paced dynamic environment, possess a high level of intellectual curiosity, focus on generating results and exhibit the highest personal and professional standards of integrity and ethics
• Self-motivated, a ''get it done'' attitude and approach & strong sense of urgency when needed and efficiency in time-management
• A strong comfort level with analyzing large datasets and drawing meaningful conclusions/results that add value to the business
• Think outside the box & challenge status quo when required by highlighting new trend

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