Welcome to Warner Bros. Discovery… the stuff dreams are made of.

Who We Are…

When we say, “the stuff dreams are made of,” we’re not just referring to the world of wizards, dragons and superheroes, or even to the wonders of Planet Earth. Behind WBD’s vast portfolio of iconic content and beloved brands, are the storytellers bringing our characters to life, the creators bringing them to your living rooms and the dreamers creating what’s next…

From brilliant creatives, to technology trailblazers, across the globe, WBD offers career defining opportunities, thoughtfully curated benefits, and the tools to explore and grow into your best selves. Here you are supported, here you are celebrated, here you can thrive.

The Role:

The Senior Analyst, FP&A - Ad Sales, is a key member of the finance team responsible for providing detailed financial insights, supporting strategic initiatives, and ensuring robust financial planning and analysis processes for the ad sales department. This role involves close collaboration with sales, marketing, operations, and finance teams to drive the financial success of ad sales activities

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
• Collaborate with Billing/Revenue Accounting/Collections teams supporting month-end closing processes, reviewing accruals, providing feedback etc.
• 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 analyst to provide high quality support to their stakeholders

Requirements:

• 4+ years’ experience in Finance function in FP&A department
• Diversified experience in financial reporting, forecasting, planning, modeling, and strong analytical skills followed by good story telling
• Knowledge of media Ad Sales markets and dynamics of key metrics impacting revenue would be an asset
• 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 Oracle EPM, S4 Hanna, SAP BPC, Hyperion, Anaplan, Adaptive

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.

Championing Inclusion at WBD

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. If you’re a qualified candidate and you require adjustments or accommodations to search for a job opening or apply for a position, please contact us at recruitadmin@wbd.com.