What are the responsibilities and job description for the Financial Planning and Analysis Analyst position at Catena Media?
The FP&A Analyst reports to the Senior FP&A Manager. The FP&A Analyst plays a critical role in the financial planning and analysis function and will be responsible for providing financial and strategic support to the North America division.
This role also has a central responsibility of creating, validating and monitoring Business Cases submitted. Together with the other members of the FP&A team, you will build models, gather and standardise offline data sources, analyse financial data, prepare reports and monitor financial movements and variances with a view to ensure that management are making well-informed decisions.
YOUR CHALLENGE:
- Take responsibility for individual product and regional budget and forecasting processes
- Monitor profit & loss development within the International division
- Analyse reports and raw data to provide insights, create presentations, produce business cases support strategic decision-making with divisional senior management
- Assess, test and assure data quality from affiliate account platforms and operational data sources
- Support VPs and senior managers with quantitative and qualitative periodical variance analysis
- Create exceptional reports, presentations and business cases
- Identify, analyse, and interpret trends or patterns in data sets and leverage these trends to drive process and performance improvements
- Compile data and findings into reports and presentations that will help the leadership team understand the findings and make better business decisions
- Work as a key business partner to several departments across the business - providing data and analysis, adding value and challenging business performance where required
TO DO IT, YOU WILL NEED:
- Qualified accountant or relevant university degree
- Proven experience as a FP&A Analyst/Business Controller consultant or Management Accountant
- Experience manipulating and reporting on large data volumes in spreadsheets (google sheets & excel), and data visualisation platforms (PowerBI, Tableau, Google Data Studio etc.)
- Knowledge of financial forecasting, diagnosis and information analysis
- Outstanding presentation, reporting and communication skills
- Excellent analytical acumen along with a strong ability with reading numbers and figures
- Communication skills, strong team spirit, fluency in English Language
- Online gaming experience is not a must, however would be beneficial