International Digital Finance & Insights Director
- Employer
- Warner Bros. Discovery
- Location
- London (Greater)
- Salary
- £Competitive
- Closing date
- 20 Feb 2021
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- Sector
- Accountancy, Banking, Finance, Media & Internet, Senior Management
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
- Flexibility
- Flexible working available
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Job Details
Position Overview:
Reporting into the Senior Director International Digital Financial & Strategic Insights, the Director International Digital Financial & Strategic Insights will support on key initiatives for International Digital (especially Discovery+). Supporting FP&A leaders and operational management teams in creating more efficient and streamlined processes, to enable greater time for identifying opportunities for value generation.
Responsibilities
- Review, analyze and track key projects performance vs. plan (e.g. acquisition of premium sports right) generating and sharing learnings with teams and senior management to be applied in future projects
- Cooperate closely with central finance team in structuring internal projects such as budget or LRP processes and support the business FP&A leaders to make processes more efficient and shift focus to create actionable insights
- Support multi-functional finance projects as a digital representative coordinating digital stakeholders, such as D+ revenue recognition project or impairment procedure
- Create process flows to ensure efficient and compliant workflows
- Lead and coordinate organizational structuring and execute change with focus on deploying funds most efficiently (e.g. ESD / D+migration)
- Identify opportunities from analysis of existing projects, thereby generating learnings and better allocation of Discovery investments and allocation of resources
- Drive standardization across International Digital FP&A Financial & Strategic Insights working closely with the CoE and GBO teams
- Work proactively on tasks with minimal supervision and collaborate with the International leadership teams, accepting feedback and refining work as required
Requirements
- A background in consulting, investment banking or corporate development
- Experience working with DTC business models and ideally firsthand experience working within the media industry
- Experience with subscription/advertising-based business models, especially in media, is preferred
- Strong leadership skills, with demonstrable experience of managing and coaching a team
- Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, matrix environment with quickly evolving, often uncertain, business goals
- Ability to confidently and concisely present information
- Excellent communication skills both written and verbal, with the ability to build relationships and networks at all levels
- Pro-active self-starter, who uses their own initiative
- Excellent academic qualifications, with a degree in a numeric or business-related field, as well as 8+ years of work experience
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