Senior Financial Analyst

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Your New Role

      Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. seeks a Sr. Financial Analyst for the Financial Contracts Reporting & Administration Participations department.  The FCRA Participations department handles contractual reporting to talent and co-production companies on all of Warner Bros. film, television, home entertainment, games, and new media libraries.  It’s an exciting, fast paced organization that provides a unique opportunity to learn many aspects of the company---from production to initial film release through all downstream channels of distribution.  FCRA provides excellent opportunities to learn the entertainment industry and offers a robust year-round training program.

      The Senior Financial Analyst position is responsible for performing research and analysis to support the Participations Reporting teams. This position reviews and understands contractual agreements, abstracts, and other related written documentation.  Additionally, the Senior Financial Analyst will be responsible for enhancing departments systems and tools through involvement in system design and testing; and improving business processes.

Your Role Accountabilities

• Performs special projects, analysis, and research, including running and/or analyzing various reports from multiple systems and SAP. Communicates with a broad set of individuals within FCRA to resolve identified issues. Delivers presentations to management and staff.

• Accumulates production cost, prepares interest calculations, home entertainment statements, term deal calculations and buyout analyses.  Responsible for monitoring and preparing deferments.  Analyzes expiring distribution deals and calculate locked balances for the Reporting teams.                          

• Identify improvements and enhancements related to FCRA’s participations system and participates in system design and testing. Creates, standardizes and improves business processes for statement preparation.

• Attend technical and conceptual training sessions and cross-divisional forums as needed.

Qualifications & Experience

• 3+ years previous experience in a finance, accounting, auditing or IT environment a plus
• Participations and/or entertainment industry experience strongly preferred.
• Business analyst or financial analyst experience a plus
• Experience with system implementations and testing a plus
• Experience in a large corporate environment a plus
• Experience working with blended teams and multiple time zones a plus
• Project Management experience a plus
• Bachelor’s degree required. (Finance, Accounting, Economics, Mathematics, or Information Systems preferred)
• Strong to expert competency with MS Excel and Word, and PowerPoint required.
• Must have strong competency in working with multiple systems, applications and SAP; must be willing to learn new IT applications
• Very strong knowledge of mathematical concepts and algebra required
• Excellent analytical skills required
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills required, including development, documentation, and delivery of training materials
• Strong overall understanding of Participations, including ability to read and understand digests and abstracts of legal agreements required
• Must have ability for progressive responsibility/promotion within the organization
• Must have excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Must have strong planning and organizational skills
• Must be detail oriented
• Solution oriented individual who can work in a dynamic, fast paced, high volume environment and think outside of the box
• Must be able to understand and communicate with operational, financial, IT and executive personnel
• Must be able to manage multiple tasks effectively, efficiently, with flexibility to changing priorities
• Must be a team player with high-level of interpersonal skills and customer-focus
• Must be able to maintain confi