About the Role
This position will partner deeply with Financial and Business colleagues to evaluate, budget, and actively manage the financial discipline for the company’s organization. Key components include helping to build the budget and forecasts, ensuring the accuracy of reported actual costs, and developing variance analysis reports and dashboards in Power BI for both Business and Financial leaders. The Senior Analyst will support management with financial reporting and analysis used for strategic and tactical decision-making, long-range financial plans, and annual operating plan and forecast cycles. The role will also work with stakeholders across the business to develop and validate investment business cases for capital projects and optimize priorities across the portfolio.
Responsibilities
- Provides ad hoc support related to mergers and acquisitions activity
- Assist in preparation, review, and consolidation of the annual operating and capital budgets, as well as Long Range Planning (long range plan, annual budget, and monthly forecasts)
- Design and improvement of financial reporting dashboards using AI to be reviewed monthly by business leads to review forecasts and trends
- Prepare monthly financial reporting and variance analysis, leveraging AI to automate variance detection and generate commentary, and communicate monthly results to department heads and project owners
- Work with the business to develop Capital Expenditure Requests (CER) and business justification
- Communicate and partner with Finance Leads to manage operational budgets, model business scenarios, and build positive relationships that drive transparency and accuracy
- Analyze and monitor financial and operational trends, utilizing AI to integrate data from multiple sources, to develop a holistic view of performance
- Manage multiple tasks in a deadline-driven environment with a high level of accuracy
- Provide ad hoc analysis as needed, including corporate finance team requests, and supporting the greater organization
- Prepare the monthly close, including accruals and journal entries
Requirements
- 4+ years of related work experience, including forecasting and budgeting experience
- Knowledge of accounting and finance principles
- Highly analytic; ability to synthesize data and provide insightful narrative of business results, using AI tools to accelerate analysis and reporting
- Strong interpersonal skills; ability to navigate within a matrixed environment
- Works effectively across teams and departments
- Demonstrates an interest in utilizing AI to improve processes
- Proactive self-starter; able to learn quickly, be flexible, and adapt to a changing industry and organizational landscape
- Enjoys digging into financial analysis, process improvement, and owning end-to-end processes
- Detail oriented
- Continuous improvement mindset; ability to seek out and implement internal or external best practices
Skills
- Microsoft Suite
- Excel
- PowerPoint
- SAP
- Oracle
- TM1
- Longview
- PowerBi
Experience Level
- 4+ years of related work experience
Salary/Compensations
- $85,600.00 - 100,000.00
Benefits
- medical
- dental
- vision
- 401(k) plan
- life insurance coverage
- disability benefits
- tuition assistance program
- PTO
- Attractive compensation and comprehensive benefits packages
- Generous paid time off
About the Company
- Paramount Network is a premium entertainment destination that pushes the limits of storytelling with bold original scripted and non-scripted series. Inspired by over a century of cinema, Paramount Network is where today's brightest stars bring the experience of the big screen to every screen with stories that are immersive, inclusive, and deeply personal. A subsidiary of Paramount Global, Paramount Network has a global reach of 234 million households across 117 countries.
- At Paramount, the spirit of inclusion feeds into everything that we do, on-screen and off. From the programming and movies we create to employee benefits/programs and social impact outreach initiatives, we believe that opportunity, access, resources and rewards should be available to and for the benefit of all.
Equal Opportunity
- Paramount is an equal opportunity employer (EOE) including disability/vet.
- We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ethnicity, ancestry, religion, creed, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship status, marital status, disability, gender identity, gender expression, and Veteran status.
