Manager, Financial Planning & Analysis
Sony Pictures Entertainment · São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
*Sony Pictures Releasing is responsible to market, and distribute Sony Pictures Network channels and to sell advertising for those channels.* This role has overall responsibility for business forecasts and evaluation of current \& future business activities/opportunities. **The Financial Planning And Reporting Manager Works Closely With** * With territory marketing, production, research and ad sales teams as the point of contact for business forecasting, channel and product financial performance analysis, commercial profit reporting; * Financial Controllers as an interface between the actual and forecast results as well as support with monthly close/reporting activity **Management Reporting** * Co\-ordinates and manages in\-territory annual and monthly management review process vs budget \& forecast for P \& L and balance\-sheet items. * Assess the organizational performance against budget and strategy and provide challenge and insight into financial performance to enable appropriate decisions to be made on future performance and growth * Provides commentaries, analysis and insight on key trends , initiatives and risks and opportunities at Territory level for input to the Management pack. * Provides title P\&L analysis and participants reporting **Planning, Budgeting And Forecasting** * Manage the forecast and plan review and approval process with hub and corporate * Coordinate and prepare the draft annual budget (revenue, cost and overhead), and additionally for the quarterly forecast * Co\-ordinate timely input of financial and business drivers into the global 3 year plan * Identify and agree KPIs which track performance against Business Plans. * Translates market conditions into the financial forecast * Tests alternative high level business scenarios and run sensitivity analysis and assess risks and opportunities with the territories and hub management team * Partner with the Sales/Mktg/Operations teams to provide financial insight * Prepare and review the cash forecast * Prepare the supporting analysis of the flash reporting and monthly forecasts * Liaise with Sales to develop customer level budgets and forecasts * Support managers to develop tactical, operational and capital plans and initiatives to deliver targets **Projects, Analysis And Continuous Improvement** * Optimize tools and systems to provide critical financial and operational information and make actionable recommendations on strategy and operations * Identify and ensure implementation of process improvements to continually improve performance * Analyses commercial proposals to support decision\-making, including discount structures, promotions analysis, customer profitability analysis * Actively participate as part of ad\-hoc global teams to develop enhanced tools \& processes followed by tactical implementation locally **Global Finance Team** * Works with, supports, and is supported by FP\&A Managers, Financial Controllers, Business Analysts, Finance Directors and Home Office members of the global team * Builds an environment based on trust, respect, teamwork, initiative and innovation **Strong Knowledge Of** * US GAAP and how to apply it, and when applicable to business results and forecasts. * Tools, approaches, roles, techniques, processes and/or procedures needed to: + Establish and monitor budgets. + Explore and evaluate alternative financial scenarios and results. + Analyze a product, customer, process, or project in terms of cost and benefits. + Create and maintain accurate and thorough financial reports. + Recognize, anticipate, and resolve organization, operations or process problems. **Strong Ability To** * Effectively communicate across the Business and Finance organization with strong English oral and written skills * Co\-ordinate and own a complex process through clear communication and organization of disparate participants to deliver a timely and effective output * Analysis of underlying financial and non financial data to provide an insight into the performance to enable the appropriate decisions to be made * Provide clear, understandable and meaningful insights in to the business to support the management to making informed business decisions * Work in a fast moving and changing environment, and manage multiple priorities. * Establish collaborative and productive relationships with clients, vendors and peers to facilitate excellent business support. * Read, interpret and draw accurate conclusions from financial and numerical material. * Work with and manipulate multiple data sources to generate useful and insightful data. * Create, implement, evaluate and enhance internal control processes. **Requirements** * Must have experience of working in an international organization and in the entertainment or advertising sector * Continually seeks to exceed expectations through self and team development. * Ability to forge strong, international relationships with diverse teams. * Be comfortable with ambiguity in a dynamic, changin