Senior Finance Analyst, Advertising CNE
Budapest, HU
JOB SUMMARY
This role is responsible for providing financial management and business support to the regions in Central and North Europe. Key responsibilities centre around the financial planning of advertising revenue from external local sales partners, including ownership of the revenue calculation models, liaising with other internal departments who own the some of the model inputs and working with finance teams to upload accruals and reconcile actuals.
Responsibilities include but will not be limited to the following:
• Assist with the preparation of the Long Range Plan, Forecasts, Annual Operating Plan and Monthly Financial Reviews in collaboration with business partners and Finance colleagues aligned with the Company’s fiscal calendar. Plans must align to corporate deliverables and timeline, be accurate and tied to financial strategic targets.
• Ensure that the team processes financial data related to Ad Sales accurately and in a timely manner
• Analyze revenue trends and update management as to any risks or opportunities vs forecasted revenues
• Support management in the appraisal of new commercial initiatives that arise.
• Help to identify and monitor metrics that measure performance against priorities.
• Partner with the Finance and Ad Sales teams to collect accurate information, and ensure the accurate transfer of data into financial and planning systems.
• Compare data to budget and approved metrics and report variances and cause of change to business partners and leaders.
• Help prepare and consolidate various ad hoc analysis, reports and information requests.
• Responsible to multiple stakeholders with conflicting priorities and projects.
• Ownership for 3rd Party Sales Partner revenue calculation models in each region on order to independently calculate the revenues for each forecast.
• Know and understand all 3rd Party Sales Partner contracts in the different countries in order to apply them to the revenue calculation.
• Update the model yearly if needed in case of new contract requirements.
• Stablish regular communication with the stakeholders (Finance, Business & Research) in the different regions within scope
• Perform the yearly MG reconciliations for the countries in scope and agree with the business and sales house on the final balance
ROLE-SPECIFIC SKILLS/ATTRIBUTES
Senior Analyst Key Competencies
• Analytical thinking and problem solving skills
• Attention to detail
• Good communicator
• Interpersonal skills
• Self-starter / pro-active
• Organized and able to effectively prioritize
Senior Analyst Skills / Experience
• 1+ years of relevant COE track experience
• 3+ years of large-scale ERP experience
Senior Analyst Responsibilities
• $50M+ of revenue / expenses
• Stakeholders – 2 or more people from Finance and Commercial at Director level or above
Paramount Networks International, is comprised of many of the world's most popular multimedia entertainment brands, including MTV, MTV LIVE HD, Nickelodeon, Nick Jr., Comedy Central, Paramount Channel, BET and more. Paramount brands reach more than 3.8 billion cumulative subscribers in 180+ countries and territories via more than 200 locally programmed and operated TV channels and more than 550 digital media and mobile TV properties, in 40 languages.
Paramount is an equal opportunity employer (EOE) including disability/vet.
At Paramount, the spirit of inclusion feeds into everything that we do, on-screen and off. From the programming and movies we create to employee benefits/programs and social impact outreach initiatives, we believe that opportunity, access, resources and rewards should be available to and for the benefit of all. Paramount is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ethnicity, ancestry, religion, creed, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship status, marital status, disability, gender identity, gender expression, and Veteran status.