Results-driven Sr. Financial Analyst experienced in financial statement review, value-added business analyses and reporting insightful financial and operational metrics that lead to sound business decision-making. Well-versed in producing reports, evaluating department operations, handling month- and year-end closings and developing a comprehensive understanding of all key business drivers and creating financial models that enable the team to deliver meaningful analyses across the company, including consolidated and regional views.
· Provide regular management reporting, business analytics, variance analysis, and decision support to senior management and stakeholders throughout the organization.
· Prepare monthly management reporting packages that provide value-added insight into the business; Deliverables include Monthly Results Reviews, Business Reviews, Customer P&Ls, analysis of key business trends, and actual versus budget variance explanations.
· Ensure results are tracked against budget/forecast and develop insights and analysis that drive results.
· Support on FP&A and Business Finance decks and presentations.
· Work closely with other internal departments to ensure financial accuracy and integrity of financial reports and management information.
· Support long term strategic planning, annual budgeting, and the rolling forecast process.
· Conduct analysis to support the delivery of monthly management & board level reviews.
· Led, managed, and developed the commercial deal structuring process for the maritime business.
· Worked internally to structure deals for Go-To-Markets teams and prepare leadership team approval decks.
· Partnered with Sales and cross-functional leaders to provide strategic support to maximize the return on financial assets and revenue.
· Developed regular reporting and analysis, including key metrics reports, and conducted ad hoc analyses for strategic and operational decision making.
· Audited information in the systems and contractual agreements to ensure proper management and accurate revenue recognition.
· Provided sales data for business analysis and sales performances, as well as variance analysis and ad-hoc reports.
· Managed and analyzed all current, booked, and outstanding business using Database Entry Tools such as Salesforce, and Alert to generate metrics reports for Business Unit presidents, Sales Executives, and Account Managers.
· Supported the commissions calculation process by auditing quarterly revenues in compliance with the company policies applicable to Sales Executives and Account Managers commissions.
· Utilized pricing and profitability models and databases, to manage pricing queue for the approval of sales quotes.
· Prepared and analyzed monthly management reports for providers per contractual commitments, including billing assurance, Profit and Loss.
· Analyzed and processed client reports based on commercial and programming.
· Provided data analysis for preparation of forecasts and amortization reports.
· Continually looked to streamline flow of information from SAP and Broadview to end product reports (both internal and external financial reports).
· Prepared monthly presentations with MoM trends in content consumption for each of the platforms within Latin America’s markets.
· Audited and processed content license invoices based on contractual agreements for each of the content providers (studios).
· Verified commercial agreements profitability based on minimum guaranteed, revenue share percentages and calculations, costs of licenses/content, and platforms performances.