Senior Financial Planning & Analysis Partner

Senior Financial Planning & Analysis Partner

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Job Description

Job Summary

The Senior Finance Analyst role is a member of the Audience Measurement FP&A team, supporting the $3B+ segment revenue. In this role, the Senior Finance Analyst will play an integral part in the forecasting, planning, and reporting of revenue for the entire Segment. The Audience Measurement 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.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate financial data, prepare forecasts, and support strategic planning decisions.
• Ownership of forecasting and reporting for total Audience Measurement Segment.
• Maintain Master Data and reconciliations
• Align on weekly revenue forecast and forecast updates to facilitate communication with CRO.
• Ensure effective revenue transition into SAP Analytics Cloud (planning & reporting).
• Lead month end variance analysis to be shared with broader Finance team
• Continually assess and improve revenue reporting, metrics and analyses.
• Preparation and consolidation as part of the financial cycle including monthly / quarterly budgeting & forecasting, annual plan setting, variance to plan and forecast analysis, etc.
• Support for the Board of Directors and other Senior Leadership presentation preparation.
• Solves complex problems : takes a new perspective using existing solutions
• Works independently receives minimal guidance

Qualifications

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