Analyst, Streaming Global Content Finance

Job Description

Your New Role

The WBD Global Content team plays a central role in the coordination of the content finance narrative. The team accomplishes this by analyzing content ROI, partnering with content finance owners, ensuring financial standards and guardrails are maintained within the business unit and providing insights and recommendations to leadership to support decision making.

The analyst will support team objectives by developing a strong understanding of the business and industry and using this knowledge to provide financial analysis related to the company's content. The primary responsibilities for the analyst will include but are not limited to the calculation, forecasting, budgeting, and long-range planning for HBOMAX titles, as well as the generation of content ultimates to inform the greenlighting/ROI process.

Your Role Accountabilities
• Creation and analysis of ultimate revenue and ultimate program and participation/residual costs in budgets, forecasts and long-term plans through trending of historical data and knowledge of company and business drivers (i.e. slate and deal information) or overall industry trends
• Maintain and evaluate Gross-to-Net title profitability models to support FP&A and the C-Suite in the greenlighting/ROI, production and participation deal-making process
• Consolidation, reporting and analysis (vs prior forecasts/budgets/LRPs/prior year) of by-title program amortization and content profits for P&L Forecasts, Budgets and Long-Range Plans
• Analyze audience ratings data to support accounting policies and ROI dashboards; coordinate SOX documentation and testing of controls
• Responsible for maintaining accrual-based participation models; Coordinate with Business Affairs to interpret contracts and ensure models reflect the latest participant deal terms
• Perform ad hoc deal and slate sensitivities to support Senior Management in evaluating strategic business decisions
• Key liaison between personnel of all levels from teams across WBD such as Consolidations, Programming, Distribution, Business Affairs, Strategy, Audience Research and IT
• Responsible for maintenance of the system with IT, including testing, upgrades and enhancements to Hyperion or TM1 systems. Proactively build out new excel tools, IT systems and processes to support the consolidation and analysis of content profits and slate information to optimize internal efficiencies

Qualifications and Experience
• Minimum of 1-2 years prior work experience in private and/or public accounting, finance, FP&A, consulting or banking. Media/entertainment industry experience a plus.
• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting or a related area preferred.
• CPA or MBA a plus
• Strong analytical, organizational, interpersonal, and leadership skills
• Excellent written/oral communication and financial presentation skills
• Excellent financial modeling and Excel skills
• Strategic thinker and problem solver with high attention to detail
• Ability to multi-task, prioritize and work in a fast-paced changing environment
• Financial database experience a plus (e.g., Oracle EBS, SAP S4, Hyperion, IBM TM1)

How We Get Things Done…

This last bit is probably the most important! Here at WBD, our guiding principles are the core values by which we operate and are central to how we get things done. You can find them at www.wbd.com/guiding-principles/ along with some insights from the team on what they mean and how they show up in their day to day. We hope they resonate with you and look forward to discussing them during your interview.

The Legal Bits…
In compliance with local law, we are disclosing the compensation, or a range thereof, for roles in locations where legally required. $54,600.00 - $101,400.00 salary per year. Other rewards may include annual bonuses, short- and long-term incentives, and program-specific awards. In addition, Warner Bros. Discovery provides a variety of benefits to employees, including health insurance coverage, an employee wellness program, life and disability insurance, a retirement savings plan, paid holidays and paid time off (PTO).

Warner Bros. Discovery embraces the opportunity to build a workforce that reflects the diversity of our society and the world around us. Being an equal opportunity employer means that we take seriously our responsibility to consider qualified candidates on the basis of merit, without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, mental or physical disability, and genetic information, marital status, citizenship status, military status, protected veteran status or any other category protected by law.

If you're a qualified candidate with a disability and you need a reasonable accommodation in order to apply for this position, please contact us at recruitadmin@wbd.com.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-d8p4b9-3-14-141-228-42 in your application.