Manager, Financial Planning & Analysis, APAC
Manager, Financial Planning & Analysis, APAC
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Job Description
The Manager Finance is an integral member of the NBCUniversal UP&E Consumer Products Financial Planning & Analytics team responsible for providing operational and financial support to the APAC Consumer Products team primarily supporting the Japan and Korea markets across all categories (Toys Fashion & Living Consumables Stationery Publishing etc). The primary functions will be financial planning forecasting and analysis as well as support business development to drive growth and organizational performance. The qualified candidate must be highly analytical and able to multitask on competing initiatives.
KEY ROLES & 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 crossregional APAC functions including managing APAC revenue pivot tables and consolidating regional forecast deliverables
- Collaborate crossfunctionally with other Departments across the organization (Commercial Controllership Legal IT
Core Responsibilities
- 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 webbased 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 datadriven insights on market landscape and key business metrics to help uncover business trends and opportunities on an adhoc basis
- Identify and implement improvements to forecasting budgeting and reporting processes including financial systems and tools to increase overall efficiency and accuracy
Key to the success of this role is your ability to provide strong technical support to your key stakeholders as well as promoting a culture of continuous improvement by leading and supporting process improvement initiatives across financial and operational areas.
Recurring processes:
- Annual budgeting process
- Quarterly financial forecasting / pacing and close
- Quarterly licensee reporting of royalties
Qualifications :
QUALIFICATIONS
The Essentials:
- Minimum of 5 years relevant work experience in a finance function. 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
- Advanced Excel skills (ability to create financial models from PowerPivot Power Query and Data Modeling)
- You bring creativity into your datadriven presentations and align with our storytelling mission to influence your stakeholders.
Desired Characteristics:
- 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.
- SelfStarter: Someone who is driven to always be moving forward while working on competing projects.
- Precision: Theres 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: Youre always solving which means that multitasking comes as second nature and youre able to maintain focus with deadlines.
- Visionaries: You take a proactive approach to problem solving and are always in search of whats 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
Additional Information :
As part of our selection process external candidates may be required to attend an inperson interview with an NBCUniversal employee at one of our locations prior to a hiring decision. NBCUniversals policy is to provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees without regard to race color religion creed gender gender identity or expression age national origin or ancestry citizenship disability sexual orientation marital status pregnancy veteran status membership in the uniformed services genetic information or any other basis protected by applicable law.
If you are a qualified individual with a disability or a disabled veteran and require support throughout the application and/or recruitment process as a result of your disability you have the right to request a reasonable accommodation. You can submit your request to
Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Fulltime
Employment Type
Full-time
