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Senior Analyst, Corporate FP&A
Activities and Expectations:
- Perform mission critical financial reporting and business partnering activities (planning, forecasting, budgeting, commercial advise, etc.) for a large company ($3.5B P&L) across its Audience Measurement, Analytics and Content businesses
- Build advanced analytics for respective area (revenue / expense / capex and cash) - e.g., customer churn metrics, adherence to pricing and discounting guidelines.
- Partner with business teams on delivering analytics, data and insights to drive key business decisions and support negotiations.
- Ensure high quality operating plans and forecasts minimizing variances of actuals from plan.
- Closely track variances from operating plans and forecasts; proactively identify possible remediation measures.
- Seek continuous improvement of the FP&A function through identification of opportunities across people, processes and technology.
- Support the FP&A org through end to end enterprise transformation – drive standardization and automation of reporting at the Corporate and BU level
- Support financial close and reporting processes in partnership with business, commercial and accounting team.
- Support broader company strategic initiatives, including performing due diligence for potential acquisitions and non-core asset divestitures
- Ensure accuracy of revenue recognition / expense reporting / capex and cash reporting by working closely with commercial and accounting teams to ensure data is accurately captured and reported in line with set guidelines.
Competencies / Skills:
- Prior experience in private equity, management consulting, or investment banking required.
- Prior Finance (3+ years minimum) experience across revenue, expense, cash and/or capex preferred but not required.
- Excellent slide / chart building skills (PowerPoint and/or slides)
- Sound fundamentals on financial knowledge, analytical ability and some understanding of the media ecosystem, preferred but not required.
- Strong modeling and analytical skills with the ability to tease apart information from data to help inform decision making.
- Bachelor’s degree required; Master’s degree, CA, or MBA is a plus.
- Ability to develop constructive relationships with colleagues across the organization.
- Comfort with spreadsheet tools (excel, Google Sheets) is required; experience with business insights tools (e.g. SAP Analytics Cloud) is a plus.
- Strong work ethic, self-motivated work style, attention to detail, effective communicator
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 $38,000-$155,000 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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