Manager, FP&A Ad Sales US

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Who We Are…

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Company Overview

Every great story has a new beginning. We're excited to announce that Discovery and WarnerMedia have combined to become Warner Bros. Discovery. WBD is a premier global media and entertainment company offering audiences the world’s most differentiated and complete portfolio of content, brands and franchises across television, film, sports, news, streaming and gaming. We’re home to the world’s best storytellers, creating world-class products for consumers. From brilliant creatives to technology trailblazers and beyond, join us as we step into the next chapter.

The Role

As the FP&A COE Ad Sales Manager, you will support one of the commercial domains in the US within the COE which offers you a great opportunity to participate in the overall finance transformation roadmap setting standards for the FP&A processes related to Ad sales revenue management. Your main responsibility is to ensure proactive and timely high-quality forecasting, reporting and analysis in the ad sales revenue domain. You will manage a team of analysts and you ensure deep knowledge and competencies are developed within the team to provide business stakeholders with required information to make educated decisions.

This role is based in Mexico City, Mexico

Responsibilities:

• Prepare financial forecasts & budgets for managed areas and validate them with commercial team to capture any risks and opportunities and provide assessment and recommendations of revenue drivers
• Track business performance by updating Ad sales models on a regular basis, understand drivers behind the change, track and verify the data to make sure it is complete and accurate
• Provide variance analysis with comments to explain actual and forecasted performance of managed channels vs prior year/plan/prior forecast
• Prepare advertising sales analysis to understand performance (customer, agency, industry, KPI trends analysis), discuss observations with stakeholders
• Responsible for development and updates of standard SMT and local commercial team reporting to highlight important trends, events, or unexpected variances
• Manage ad hoc strategic and BAU Ad sales related financial requests i.e. preparing business plans, financial models and scenario analysis
• Constantly review processes, identify areas where we can simplify and improve processes and drive efficiencies, propose solutions and drive changes
• Establish collaborative relationships with key contacts in business finance teams to encourage the flow of information and knowledge sharing
• Lead, develop and coach a team of managers and analysts to provide high quality support to their stakeholders

Requirements:

• 5+ years’ experience in Finance function in FP&A department including at least 2 years on manager position
• Knowledge of media Ad Sales markets and dynamics of key metrics impacting revenue would be an asset
• Diversified experience in financial reporting, forecasting, planning, modeling, and strong analytical skills followed by good story telling
• Self-motivated individual, focused on constant development and process improvement, open for changes and new challenges
• Very good English
• Great communication skills and relationship building
• Ability to establish professional, trust-based relationship with variety of finance and non-finance stakeholders

• Be able to meet stringent deadlines and work under pressure while showing excellent attention to detail
• Ability to handle multiple tasks simultaneously, prioritize and adhere to strict deadlines
• Experience leading, coaching, and developing a team
• Advanced Excel skills
• Strong working knowledge of financial software packages and Microsoft Office suite. 
• Experience in using EPM solution such as SAP BPC, Hyperion, Anaplan, Adaptive

How We Get Things Done…

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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, regardless of sex, gender identity, ethnicity, union status, age, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marital status, pregnancy, parenthood, disability or any other category protected by law.

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