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Manager, FP&A
The Finance Manager role is a member of the Gracenote FP&A team. In this role, the Finance Manager will play an integral part in the forecasting, planning, and reporting of Gracenote's ~$300M+ revenue, globally, acting as the primary finance business partner for the sales leadership team. The Gracenote FP&A team is a fast paced, high performing team that executes financial planning and analysis. Cross-functional partnership is required across the entire Nielsen organization to develop and improve reporting packages, planning processes, financial models and analytics. This role will also provide ad-hoc analysis as needed to support and influence senior leadership. Strong financial acumen including experience with forecasting, budgeting, and variance analysis is a requirement.
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Responsibilities:
- Finance business partner for Gracenote's sales segment leaders, supporting them with revenue planning, forecasting, reporting and analysis.
- Ownership of ~$250M revenue across key segments - pay TV, platforms, Consumer electronics, advertisers, SMB.
- Conduct weekly revenue reviews with direct ownership over the top 25 accounts, and provide oversight to contractors/offshore resources analyzing all other accounts.
- Play key support role ensuring effective revenue transition onto S4 (O2C) and SAP Analytics Cloud (planning & reporting) for Gracenote.
- Develop and maintain financial models for various business units and projects.
- Run month close process, ensuring required journal entries are submitted and oversee variance analysis to ensure accurate and insightful reporting.
- Continually assess and improve revenue reporting, metrics and analyses as we progress as an FP&A organization.
- Preparation and consolidation as part of the financial cycle including monthly/quarterly budgeting & forecasting, annual plan setting, variance to plan and forecast analysis, etc.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance.
- 5+ years' experience in a financial planning and analysis role, 1+ year of manager experience preferred.
- Must have a strong work ethic, self-motivated work style and a good attention to detail and enjoy a dynamic environment with new challenges and changing work priorities.
- Individual contributor and team player with great communication and interpersonal skills.
- Strong financial modeling skills with experience building and maintaining models.
- Strong organizational skills, close attention to detail and ability to meet deadlines.
- Ability to adapt quickly and learn new tasks independently.
- Strong quantitative and analytical competency.
- Experience manipulating large data sets and turning them into usable information.
- Comfortable working cross-functionally and with senior leadership.
- Proficiency in Excel, Word, PowerPoint and Google Suite.
- Previous Operations Finance experience is a plus.
- SAP Financial systems and Hyperion Financial Management (HFM) experience strongly preferred
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 $66,000-$225,000 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
Nielsen is committed to hiring and retaining a diverse workforce. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action-Employer, making decisions without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability status, age, marital status, protected veteran status or any other protected class.
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