Sr Analyst, FP&A - TV Distribution

This role provides timely and accurate forecasting, reporting and analysis for Warner Bros. Discovery Studios, working with business finance counterparts to gather inputs and understand drivers. It develops deep competencies in this area and supplies business and finance stakeholders with the information required for decision making.

• Manage FP&A analysis with global scope and financial data requests, generating insights for business partners.
• Work with Sisco to deliver timely and accurate insights into budget, forecast and actuals reporting.
• Provide proactive business partner support for global TV content and prepare preliminary forecasts for studio meetings and month-end reporting cost analysis.
• Reconcile actuals against prior forecast, budget or prior year and provide variance analysis to explain performance.
• Work with studio FP&A to develop budgets and long-range plans and evaluate the financial impact of potential strategy decisions.
• Demonstrate and maintain high standards of accountability to deliver superior quality financial information to business FP&A on a timely basis.
• Build strong relationships with business partners and FP&A teams to enable information and knowledge sharing.
• Support the development of systems, tools and processes to facilitate efficient and accurate forecasting and analysis.
• Drive process simplification initiatives, collaborating across boundaries and sharing best practices with other FP&A teams.
• Participate in meetings with business finance partners to understand forecast drivers and present prepared forecast and analysis data.

• At least 4 years' experience in forecasting and analysis.
• Strong English verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong proficiency in Excel and other data analysis techniques, with demonstrated experience in financial modelling.
• Critical thinker and strong problem solver with excellent written and verbal communication skills; ability to frame issues, articulate findings and present optimal solutions.
• Proven ability to build confidence and trust with department members and external business partners.
• Experience working accurately and efficiently with high volumes of data under strict deadlines.
• Motivated by a challenging, high-energy environment.
• Strong working knowledge of financial software packages and the Microsoft Office suite.
• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting or Data Science required.

• Solid understanding of the entertainment business preferred.
• Passion for leveraging data to drive business decisions; knowledge of programming (Python, script development) is a plus.
• Experience with real-business projects involving large data analysis, machine learning tools, AI (e.g. Copilot) and predictive modelling.
• Data visualisation and BI tools such as Tableau, Power BI, Looker Studio, SAP4 (AO, SmartView) is a plus.