Manager, Financial Planning & Analysis

Summary

Join the NBCUniversal, UP&E Consumer Products Financial, Planning & Analytics team as a Manager, Finance and provide operational and financial support to the APAC Consumer Products team, primarily supporting the Japan and Korea markets. You will be responsible for financial planning, forecasting, and analysis, as well as supporting business development to drive growth. The role requires strong analytical skills and the ability to multi-task. You will work remotely from Australia, supporting the Regional Finance Director across all financial cycles. Success in this role hinges on providing strong technical support and fostering a culture of continuous improvement. The position offers the opportunity to contribute to a dynamic and growing team within a leading entertainment company.

Requirements

• Minimum of 5 years relevant work experience in a finance function
• Advanced Excel skills (ability to create financial models from PowerPivot, Power Query and Data Modeling)
• You bring creativity into your data-driven presentations and align with our storytelling mission to influence your stakeholders

Responsibilities

• Support Regional Finance Director across all financial cycles for Japan and Korea markets remotely in Australia: Annual Budget, Quarterly Forecasts, Quarterly Close and Long Range Planning cycles; assist in delivering presentations to senior leadership team
• Build and manage separate annual full P&L (revenue and costs) budget, forecasts and close for Japan and Korea market and own variance analysis and insights
• Partner with Japan and Korea Business/Commercial leads to achieve annual financial targets and provide trend/industry analysis to support key decision for business expansion and potential new business opportunities
• Ensure accuracy and consistency of financial data through validation of revenues and costs across systems and reports
• Identify key financial risks and opportunities, analyse variances between actuals and forecasts, identifying key drivers and recommending corrective actions
• Support cross-regional APAC functions including managing APAC revenue pivot tables and consolidating regional forecast deliverables
• Collaborate cross-functionally with other Departments across the organization (Commercial, Controllership, Legal, IT
• Perform, report and deliver financial forecast analysis comparing vs. budget and prior year performance in forms of excel financial models
• Support licensees in forecasting and royalty submission processes, utilizing internal web-based systems and tools
• Facilitate financial forecast discussions with key market commercial heads on a remote basis, analyze and identify key business drivers, risks and opportunities
• Own the Japan and Korea presentation decks for annual budget and quarterly forecast reviews and assist with Regional APAC presentation deck to be presented to the Senior management team
• Assist in research and data-driven insights on market landscape and key business metrics to help uncover business trends and opportunities on an ad-hoc basis
• Identify and implement improvements to forecasting, budgeting and reporting processes, including financial systems and tools to increase overall efficiency and accuracy

Preferred Qualifications

• Direct experience in Media & Entertainment industry, Consumer Products, or Retail Environment is a plus.)
• Qualified accounting and finance skills (i.e., certified accountant, Mastery in business administrations) are plus
• Experience with financial systems such as SAP and qualified accounting and finance skills (i.e., certified accountant, Mastery in business administration is not required but will help you stand out
• Self-Starter: Someone who is driven to always be moving forward while working on competing projects
• Precision: There’s no detail too small for you to notice. We take pride in doing the right things the right way
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written
• Team Player: We are passionate in all that we do, and we are respectful of those we work with because we believe we are more dynamic, and better, together
• Innovators: You’re always solving, which means that multi-tasking comes as second nature and you’re able to maintain focus with deadlines
• Visionaries: You take a proactive approach to problem solving and are always in search of what’s next
• Experience in business partnering with international teams is also a plus
• Native/ Fluent language skills in Japanese (ability to facilitate and run discussions) would be a plus