Senior Finance Analyst

Job Description

Primary Purpose of the Role:
• Key Business Partner to the WM UK Games team across Physical & Digital Games.
• Delivers a clear picture of future performance through accurate forecasts, confidence in actual results through consistent accounting and provides insightful reporting and analysis to the UK business
• Supporting analysis for WM Consumer Products and/or Video, as necessary

Essential Job Functions:
• Scope: UK & Ireland WM physical Games and Digital businesses and other businesses as directed by line management.
• Business Partner to the UK and EMEA Games teams
• Deliver planning & forecasting processes: Budget & LRP, monthly rolling Forecasts, Ultimates and such other forecasts as required
• Ensure monthly/quarterly close in line with WM accounting policies.
• Manage and review the variance analysis in monthly financial statements, provide details, 'value-added' analysis.
• Provide business advice for developing other business models for the mobile games business.
• Responsibility for the review and/or calculation of all key financial information, provisions and accruals and the retained divisional monthly close process.
• Manage ad-pub for budgets games
• Responsible for games Salesforce targets and enhance use of salesforce across all areas of the business, including deal tracking, pricing and lifecycle calendars
• Report and deliver insightful analysis of actual business performance to WM Home Entertainment.
• Manage Games Inventory by Format, Retailer, Channel and Warehouse and use this information to support provisions analysis.
• Development of internal reporting and processes, in particular the Digital forecasting processes.
• Provide commercial support to the sales team for digital and physical customers.
• Support / Assist Business Decision Support team to evaluate new business models and commercial games opportunities.
• Answer Burbank and European office enquiries.
• Other duties as required by the business.

Education/Qualifications:
• Graduate or high calibre candidate with the relevant work experience and competencies
• Qualified Accountant preferred, or at least PQ and working towards accountancy qualification
Other requirements:
• Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to communicate with finance and non-finance people
• Previous work experience in a financial planning and analysis role (forecasting, budgeting, strategic long range planning and business decision support)
• Ability and passion for understanding finance and curating the financial story for others
• Experience in the media industry is highly desirable
• Must possess a high level of intellectual curiosity that sparks communication, collaboration, and innovation. Must have a willingness to look beyond surface requirements
• Must have the ability to adapt and be agile amongst a changing environment. Be able to translate complex problems into solutions.
• Must be detail-oriented, with the ability to distil and elevate the most important points, clearly conveying them to the right audience
• Must have excellent analytic skills.
• Must have the ability to multi-task and work well under time constraints
• Must be able to work independently and meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment
• Must be willing to expand knowledge relating to industry trends.
• Must be willing to collaborate with management and peers to advance team and company goals
• Advanced Excel required (pivot tables, macros, formulas), with proficiency with other MS Office applications (PowerPoint, Word, Access). Tableau experience a plus.
• Demonstrable experience of working with finance system(s), eg SAP, Essbase, Hyperion with a willingness and ability to learn new systems quickly.
• Bonus Points: Home Entertainment Games Distribution practices, customers, accounting, supply chain and market dynamics
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