VP, Finance
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Job Location:
Culver, CA - USA
Monthly Salary:
$ 224000 - 280000
Posted on:
16 hours ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
The Divisional Finance organization at Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) provides business support and partnership for all finance related matters for their group(s) primarily ensuring that strong financial discipline and analysis is in place to support the decision making across each division and SPE towards achieving its goals and objectives.
Reporting to the Divisional CFO of Corporate & Central Functions the VP of Finance is accountable for the financial planning reporting and analysis for the Corporate Functions and Centrally-Held costs. The role is based in Culver City and has oversight over a team of FP&A members.
The successful candidate for the role will have hands-on experience and a strong track record of financial reporting and analysis process improvement interaction with senior operational and financial management and excellent critical thinking analytical collaboration presentation & communication skills. The successful candidate will be willing to step into the details alongside the team balancing strategic leadership with hands-on involvement to complete deliverables and work toward process improvements.
Responsibilities:
- Lead the preparation and consolidation of the annual Budget Mid Range Plan (MRP) and Forecast processes with primary focus on providing financial analysis and insights
- Track performance relative to budgets and forecasts review actual results and concisely explain variances against budgets and forecasts based on commercial and operating drivers
- Prepare timely and accurate monthly/quarterly financial results presentations that provide important insights and participate in executive review meetings
- Develop and optimize reports that provide actionable insight into the levers of the business
- Support management with ad hoc financial market and trend analyses to prioritize strategic initiatives or investment decisions
- Develop and manage team members including establishing priorities setting objectives and providing guidance and feedback
- Manage expenses and key business metrics across SPEs centrally held costs (e.g. Fringe costs long-term executive compensation etc.)
- Develop and streamline FP&A processes to mitigate risk and find value within the business
Requirements:
We are looking for an exceptional individual with strong critical thinking decision making leadership and analytical & financial skills. You should have hands-on experience performing financial analyses and delivering clear insights. You will have spent a portion of your career in a financial role supporting Corporate and/or centralized-support departments. More specifically you should meet many if not all of the following requirements:
- 12 years of relevant professional experience including corporate finance consulting or similar analytical role
- 5 years of management experience including managing developing and leading a team
- Bachelors degree in Accounting/Finance; Masters degree and/or MBApreferred
- Exceptional financial modeling skills in Excel including the ability to drive process optimization using Excel
- Experience designing and executing Finance-related transformation
- Intermediate to advanced skills in SAP
- An agile learner with a highly analytical mindset strong technical finance skills and solid business acumen
- Change agent adept at successfully challenging the status quo
- Excellent communication and influencing skills across a variety of stakeholders such as peer teams non-finance teams and executive management
- Communication includes verbal (in-person & virtual) written (memos and emails) and presentations
- SAP Advanced Excel & other Office Suite Tableau/SAC
Core Competencies:
- Strategic Financial Leadership
- Demonstrates strong business acumen and the ability to translate complex financial data into insights.
- Partners effectively with senior leaders across multiple corporate functions.
- Analytical and Problem-Solving Excellence
- Uses critical thinking to identify root causes of variances and proactively recommend solutions.
- Brings intellectual curiosity and rigor to improve forecasting process.
- Operational and Process Discipline
- Designs and implements scalable financial processes that enhance accuracy transparency and timeliness.
- Continuously seeks opportunities to automate or simplify reporting and analysis while maintaining high standards of quality.
- Demonstrates precision and follow-through in managing complex financial cycles (budget forecast MRP).
- Patience and Grit
- Approaches complex or evolving processes with patience recognizing that sometimes you must crawl before you can walk
- Demonstrates resilience when navigating ambiguity or incremental progress.
- Balances urgency with patience recognizing that lasting change and process improvement require consistent effort and engagement.
- Maintains optimism and focus in the face of challenges inspiring the team to do the same.
- Change Agility
- Leads finance-related change efforts with focus and resilience.
- Operates as a change agent who challenges existing practices and fosters continuous improvement.
- People Leadership and Team Development
- Sets clear priorities empowers team members and provides coaching to support both performance.
- Effectively manages workload distribution and capacity planning within a high-demand environment.
Sony Pictures Entertainment is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race color religion sex national origin disability veteran status age sexual orientation gender identity or other protected characteristics.
SPE will consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records in accordance with applicable law.
To request an accommodation for purposes of participating in the hiring process you may contact us at
Required Experience:
Exec
Key Skills
- Forecasting
- Financial Services
- GAAP
- Accounting
- IFRS
- Regulatory Reporting
- Financial Analysis
- Financial Modeling
- Budgeting
- Financial Report Interpretation
- Financial Management
- Financial Planning
About Company
The toga lady holds her torch high for film audiences everywhere by representing Columbia Pictures, the studio through which Sony Pictures Entertainment produces its big budget movies. The studio was founded in 1924, and in 1982 it was purchased by Coca-Cola. Sony purchased ...
