Director of Financial Planning & Analysis

A global entertainment and media organization is hiring a senior finance leader to strengthen corporate planning cost discipline and decision support across a complex multi-business operating environment.

Position Summary

The Director Financial Planning & Analysis will serve as the lead finance partner for corporate departments translating strategic priorities into disciplined budgets forecasts controls and performance insight. The role combines executive partnership with hands-on ownership of operating expense capital expenditure vendor-level analysis and recurring reporting.

Key Responsibilities

• Partner with department heads and senior leaders to align operating plans resource decisions and financial priorities.
• Lead the annual corporate budgeting process and maintain recurring forecasts for operating and capital expenditures.
• Deliver monthly departmental reporting variance analysis and vendor-level reconciliations against budget and prior periods.
• Apply a zero-based budgeting mindset to challenge spending assumptions evaluate vendor relationships and identify margin-improvement opportunities.
• Build and maintain accurate financial models statements projections and scenario analyses.
• Partner with Corporate Accounting to improve the accuracy and timeliness of close-related and management reporting.
• Implement and reinforce financial controls covering budgets payments cash management and departmental spending.
• Prepare clear financial reporting and analysis for senior management investors and lenders.
• Develop and deploy business-intelligence tools that improve visibility forecasting and decision support.
• Lead ad hoc strategic analyses and support merger-integration projects as needed.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in Accounting or Finance.
• At least seven years of experience in financial planning and analysis or a closely comparable finance leadership role.
• Demonstrated ownership of budgeting forecasting financial analysis modeling and management reporting.
• Ability to analyze substantial financial datasets and produce accurate reports statements and projections.
• Financial-management experience establishing policies procedures and controls.
• Advanced proficiency with Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint.
• Strong written verbal and presentation skills including the ability to explain complex financial concepts to senior leaders.
• Demonstrated leadership managerial capability organization and attention to detail in a fast-paced environment.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience within a large global or multi-business organization.
• Experience using or managing NetSuite OneStream or comparable accounting and planning platforms.
• Experience developing business-intelligence tools or improving forecast and reporting processes.
• Experience supporting merger-integration or other enterprise finance initiatives.
• Entertainment media professional-services or another complex stakeholder-driven operating environment.

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