Manager, FP&A

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Position OverviewThis role will support the Vice President of Corporate FP&A with a focus on budgeting, forecasting, monthly close work, and variance analysis. This person will operate as a business partner to multiple functional teams at Nielsen.  

Responsibilities

• Help drive the annual budget process through a bottoms up budget build approach working with a variety of functional teams.
• Lead monthly forecast updates to ensure the latest financial estimates are reflected within Nielsen's consolidated view
• Assist in the monthly close process which includes partnering with controllership and working through accruals, reconciliations and intercompany submissions
• Post close you will take large datasets and turn them into insightly analysis and variance explanations
• Work as a business partner and build a relationship with several functional teams
• Ad hoc projects as needed to assist the VP of Corp FP&A

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience with budgeting & forecasting
• Comfortability working with large datasets and turning them into meaningful and concise summaries
• Advanced experience working with spreadsheets/Excel
• Willingness to roll your sleeves up and work through whatever is required with an attention to detail, accuracy, and completeness
• Have the ability to learn and navigate our financial systems and tools
• Positive attitude that can work with a diverse set of people to help solution whatever the current challenge is

Nielsen: Enabling your best to power a better media future. Our comprehensive benefits package (including health & wellness plans for full-time employees, 401(k) retirement coupled with a Nielsen match, a generous paid time off policy, and if eligible, a discretionary incentive/bonus) is designed to be inclusive for all employees and families, and we take pride in ensuring that employees are rewarded holistically for the role they are doing and their performance. 
A reasonable estimate of salary range for a new employee to be offered this role would be between $50,000- $105,000, which would be adjusted based on each employee's geographic location.  The position of each employee within a compensation range at Nielsen is dependent on several individual circumstances, such as experience, training, certifications and other business requirements/needs.  
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