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Senior Financial Analyst - Media - Finance…
- Bloomberg (New York, NY)
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The energy of a newsroom, the pace of a trading floor, we work hard, and we work fast - while keeping up the quality and accuracy we're known for. It's what keeps us inventing and reinventing, all the time. Our culture is wide open, just like our spaces. We bring out the best in each other through collaboration. Through our countless volunteer projects, we also help network with the communities around us, too. You can do amazing work here. Work you couldn't do anywhere else. It's up to you to make it happen.
At Bloomberg Finance we are committed to providing world-class support to our business partners by providing insight on business performance, financial oversight and thought leadership. You will join the Bloomberg Media Finance team, ensuring precision in planning, reporting, and strategic decision making.
This is a unique role, liaising cross-functionally with Finance, FP&A and the Global Commercial Sales organization. This position acts as a subject matter expert for all finance related activities with an eye towards business objectives and processes.
We'll trust you to:
• Gain a financial and operational understanding of the business, including its mission, products, services, clients, initiatives, employees, etc.
• Analyze and advise on the financial and operational impact of strategic policies, while identifying drivers behind performance changes
• Ensure reporting accuracy and compliance with internal and external policies, including monitoring forecast accuracy, understanding drivers of variances, and providing insightful commentary & analysis for both current and future periods
• Develop and maintain high-quality excel based models to measure and monitor financial performance and key KPIs, and perform sensitivity/scenario analysis
• Provide support to key stakeholders, and manage financial activities, for periodic forecast and annual planning cycles
• Proactively identify and implement improvements to existing processes to maximize efficiency, accuracy, and accessibility
• Participate in special projects and performs other duties as assigned (e.g., Project Management)
• Own the digital revenue accounting close process, from calculating accruals and deferrals to validating revenue utilizing various systems reports and your own reports.
• Reconcile revenue by media platform to Salesforce inclusive of balance sheet reconciliations
• Reconcile overall advertising revenue that is reflected in Salesforce
• Monitor activity that is subject to revenue sharing with various partners and making the appropriate adjustments
• Perform Salesforce maintenance including but not limited to account setup, account assignment changes, advertiser name and address updates
• Complete Ad hoc reports such as Programmatic, Podcasts and Newsletters and Partner shares
• Attend to Corporate requests, quarterly audit requests, industry reporting, competitive market data (Media Radar)
You’ll need to have:
• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field of study.
• 6+ years’ direct experience in financial planning & analysis, business analytics, and/or corporate or strategic finance
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to collect, organize, analyze, and disseminate large amounts of data while succinctly summarizing findings
• Ability to coordinate and execute projects independently, effectively manage time, prioritize tasks and autonomously perform within tight deadlines
• Fluency in Microsoft Office (Excel, PowerPoint)
We’d love to see:
• Experience utilizing a large integrated computer system (e.g. Oracle, SAP).
• Experience working in a Media organization, a plus.
Bloomberg is an equal opportunity employer and we value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of age, ancestry, color, gender identity or expression, genetic predisposition or carrier status, marital status, national or ethnic origin, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, sexual and other reproductive health decisions, parental or caring status, physical or mental disability, pregnancy or parental leave, protected veteran status, status as a victim of domestic violence, or any other classification protected by applicable law.
Bloomberg is a disability inclusive employer. Please let us know if you require any reasonable adjustments to be made for the recruitment process. If you would prefer to discuss this confidentially, please email [email protected]
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