Sr. Analyst, Deal Management

Job Description

Your New Role

Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. seeks a Senior Analyst for the Financial Contracts Reporting & Administration Deal Management department. The FCRA Deal Management department handles contractual reporting to talent and co-production companies on all of Warner Bros. film, television, home entertainment, games, and new media libraries. It's an exciting, fast paced organization that provides a unique opportunity to learn many aspects of the company---from production to initial film release through all downstream channels of distribution. FCRA provides excellent opportunities to learn the entertainment industry and offers a robust year-round training program.

The Senior Analyst position is responsible for summarizing contractual provisions related to WB's contingent compensation reporting obligations. This role is responsible for preparing financial abstracts, tracking new deals, researching contractual deal points, and preparing ad-hoc special projects and analyses.

Your Role Accountabilities
• Analyze, interpret and summarize complex financial reporting provisions of talent,
• production, and distribution agreements related to video game, home entertainment, television, and theatrical product.
• Review agreement summaries prepared by other team members and provide feedback and training as necessary.
• Liaise with business affairs, legal, and other key stakeholders to ensure financial reporting is in compliance with contractual intent and applicable laws.
• Coordinate and communicate with various business units and groups within WB to identify and track both new product and revisions to existing financial agreements for library product.
• Maintain status and workflow reports to ensure agreements and revisions are administered in a timely and accurate fashion.
• Perform and/or supervise special projects, analysis and research (e.g. participant and auditor queries, etc.), including analyzing agreements, court documents, and financial statements.

Qualifications & Experience
• Minimum 2 years related work experience required, preferably within entertainment industry
• Previous experience in participations preferred
• Experience with legal, finance and/or accounting preferred
• Bachelor's degree, preferably in business or finance related field
• Strong experience reading and interpreting legal agreements (experience with entertainment industry agreements strongly preferred)
• Strong to expert competency with MS Excel and Word
• Must have excellent verbal and written communication skills including the ability to work effectively with attorneys across multiple business units
• Must be a self-starter with outstanding time management skills to handle multiple and changing priorities
• Must have high attention to detail
• Must be able to maintain confidentiality
• Must be a quick learner who is results-oriented
• Must be able to work independently and meet deadlines

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-d25w3y-18-226-166-64-42 in your application.