Senior Finance Manager

Who We Are

When we say, the stuff dreams are made of, we’re not just referring to the world of wizards, dragons and superheroes, or even to the wonders of Planet Earth.

Behind WBD’s vast portfolio of iconic content and beloved brands, are the bringing our characters to life, the bringing them to your living rooms and the creating what’s next

From brilliant creatives, to technology trailblazers, across the globe, WBD offers career defining opportunities, thoughtfully curated benefits, and the tools to explore and grow into your best selves.

Here you are supported, here you are celebrated, here you can thrive.

Your New Role

This role currently supports 1300 GCO headcount, $350M+ of managed spend, an IMO Pipeline of $140M to be delivered in 2024, pending org changes for Q1 and Q2, ongoing refinement of COE support model, and business partnering for James Crossland and his directs.

There are also some high-volume ad hoc modeling projects, vendor negotiations and rate card support, as well as KPI’s / utilization projects that this role supports.

Your Role Accountabilities

LRP & Monthly Reforecasting - Management and production of the consolidated budget for GCO P&L, as well as LRP, budget, and monthly reforecasts for headcount, related expenditure and capital spend.

Ensure that any risks and opportunities to the latest budget / forecast are correctly understood, quantified, and reflected in the forecast as appropriate.

Responsible for the coordination of WMTO International headcount planning and reporting process across all WMTO pillars.

Reporting - Partner with Regional and Operating Management to ensure that all relevant information is captured and reflected in budgets and forecasts, challenging and verifying all underlying assumptions to ensure the integrity of the numbers.

Ensure accuracy of data and that all timelines, processes and controls are adhered to, in line with company policy.

Analysis - Variance analysis for GCO expenses (e.g. actual versus budget comparison). Review and consolidate business cases, forecasts and scenario analysis for new business initiatives, support new projects and initiations with financial analysis and modelling, establish clearly defined, roll-out and report on other core measures of success (financial and non-financial) for all GCO operations.

Support resource planning, headcount allocation, cost modelling and volume planning. Track and report on the performance of executed projects and other business initiatives that are implemented and fully integrate these into the international consolidated reporting process.

Provide ad hoc analysis, forecasting and modelling as required.

• Business Partner - Work across global partners and clients to support the operations of the GCO and WMTO business. This includes, Regional FP&A and US Tech Finance Team to gain a full understanding of the business and operations, to align the reporting and budgeting cycle for the WMTO EMEA, APAC, LATAM and Central Operations.
• Partner with Regional and Operating WMTO Management to ensure that all relevant information is captured and reflected in budgets, forecasts and scorecards;

challenging and verifying any underlying assumptions to ensure the integrity of the numbers. Liaising with core HR leads to reconcile headcount, systems and streamline and improve processes on an ongoing basis.

Partner with the commercial teams, the Business Process Improvement (BPI) team and Project Delivery Group (PDG), and functional leads and operations teams.

Systems - Train / educate business contacts to use and understand financial / data analysis and reporting tools as appropriate.

Liaising with budget holders and business contacts to ensure the correct coding of GCO expenditure in alignment with WMTO reporting structure.

Ensure monthly and annual planning processes are completed and uploaded into relevant systems in line with reporting deadlines.

Qualifications & Experience

• Experience to include significant forecasting, budgeting, modelling and analysis.
• Experience of working with a high volume of data
• Variance analysis
• Digital Products experience
• Media experience
• Bachelor’s degree in FInance, Accounting, or related field
• Highly computer literate including advanced Excel, Hyperion (or similar)
• Experience of collaborating with pan regional and cross functional teams
• English fluent verbal and written
• Use best practice tools such as SmartView, Tableau (or similar analytical tools)
• Experience and market knowledge of specified territories
• Commercial approach, aware how industry trends and micro / macroeconomics affect the business
• Solid organizational, prioritizing and multi-tasking abilities to work in a high pressure, fast paced environment and deal with a high volume of data
• Ability to prioritize and work under own initiative
• Meticulous attention to detail
• Relationship building skills
• Highly numerate and analytical
• Able to communicate with and present explain data and analysis concepts to non-finance personnel
• Ability to question and research detail in order to achieve a full understanding and accurate reflection of the financials

How We Get Things Done

This last bit is probably the most important! Here at WBD, our guiding principles are the core values by which we operate and are central to how we get things done.

You can find them at along with some insights from the team on what they mean and how they show up in their day to day. We hope they resonate with you and look forward to discussing them during your interview.

Championing Inclusion at WBD

Warner Bros. Discovery embraces the opportunity to build a workforce that reflects the diversity of our society and the world around us.

Being an equal opportunity employer means that we take seriously our responsibility to consider qualified candidates on the basis of merit, without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, mental or physical disability, and genetic information, marital status, citizenship status, military status, protected veteran status or any other category protected by law.