Manager FP&A, Domestic Networks

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Your New Role...
As the OPEX Manager, you will support US AdSales OPEX area within the OPEX CoE which offers you a great opportunity to participate in the overall finance transformation roadmap setting standards for the financial.
Your main responsibility is to ensure proactive and timely high quality forecasting, reporting and analysis in the OPEX spend including production, marketing, research expenses and supporting the business partners in decision making. You will deploy world class end to end financial processes within the managed domain and ensure alignment with other FP&A teams and business partners.
Your Role Accountabilities...

• Managing the Long-Range Plan, Annual Operating Plan and Monthly Financial Forecasts for managed OPEX area in collaboration with business partners and Finance colleagues
• Provide high quality financial information and insights from managed OPEX area to business partners to support strategic and tactical decision-making process
• Monitor actuals utilization vs budget/prior year and provide required commentary on key variances
• Early identification and communication to stakeholders of risks and opportunities related to managed area
• Initiate and design standard FP&A processes within the managed OPEX domain and ensure effectiveness and efficiency of these processes
• Support with productivity analysis, reporting and control mechanisms to ensure targets realization
• Provide in-depth understanding of the business by translating variances in KPI's and initiate corrective actions
• Advise and drive developments in FP&A systems (e.g. EPM, data visualization, self service dashboards) to provide more accurate and timely reporting to stakeholders
• Work proactively together with the Business Partners on special projects in the area of AdSales cost
• Manage communication and responsiveness to stakeholder requests and questions in a timely manner based on criticality of business.
• Collaborate with Accounting and Transactional Finance teams to improve financial processes related to managed OPEX area

Qualifications & Experience...

• 5+ years relevant experience preferred
• CIMA/ACCA qualified or education in progress desired
• Experience in managing team (recruitment, coaching, competencies development)
• Progressive experience and deep understanding of the business from finance perspective
• Working experience with financial control, management reporting and business analyses, preferably within an international environment
• Intellectual capacity to digest complex information, see trends and analysis through data and to translate this into concrete actions
• Project management, change management and process improvement experience
• Strong IT affinity to drive required digital agenda in FP&A (EPM ie. Hyperion, SAP BPC/SAC, , BI tools ie. Power BI)
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Strong team player
• Business driven attitude and a sparring partner for management
• Excellent analytical skills
• Pro-active and hands-on
• High drive and energy level
• Your way of working is characterized by a high level of accuracy
• Fluent in English

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