Crooked believes that we need a better conversation about politics, culture, and the world around us—one that doesn’t just focus on what’s broken, but what we can do to fix it. We are a media network that showcases stories, voices, and opportunities for activism that inform, entertain, and inspire action, because it’s up to all of us to do our part to build a better world.
Job Summary:
Crooked Media is seeking a Senior Financial Analyst to play a key role in the ongoing reporting, budgeting and analysis that helps to guide senior leadership. This position provides critical analysis and support with key responsibilities involving financial modeling for budgeting, forecasting, and ad hoc projects, as well as interfacing with various parts of the business as the primary finance partner for monthly reporting. Candidates should have a working understanding of GAAP, excellent analytical skills, and a positive attitude & willingness to learn.
Crooked has adopted a hybrid work model for our entire staff. We believe that the best work is done in a hybrid capacity as it combines the flexibility of working from home with in-person collaboration. We are ideally looking for Los Angeles-based candidates, or candidates willing to relocate within the first 3 months of accepting an offer.
How You’ll Spend Your Time:
FP&A/Deal Analysis
- Develop, maintain and improve upon annual budget and forecast models
- Participate in greenlight process by modeling estimated gross profit for new projects based on inputs from various departments
- Work closely with production accounting & content teams to stay apprised of upcoming releases, track actual vs budget spending on limited series and update management on any significant variances from budget
- Prepare and maintain investor waterfall calculations for co-financed projects
- Perform ad-hoc analyses as needed to inform management decision-making
- Identify inefficiencies in current processes or workbooks and own the implementation of improvements
- Partner with department heads to actively manage budgets
Financial Close
- Assist with preparation of various month end close entries, including revenue share statements, project cost allocations, production cost amortization and quarterly commissions
- Prepare monthly financial reporting deliverables, including financial statement package and variance analysis against latest budget and reforecast
- Analyze and report Departmental results, including actual vs budget variances
- Assist with annual financial statement audit requests, tax preparation requests and 409A valuations
What You’ll Bring To The Table:
- 3+ years of experience with budgeting, financial modeling, and decision analytics (e.g. FP&A/corporate finance, investment banking)
- Strong financial acumen and data analysis
- Comfort with an ever-changing environment and ability to quickly adapt on the fly
- Advanced Excel skills (e.g. indexing-type lookups, pivot & other data tables, etc.)
- Strong work ethic and time management skills
- Effective communication and interpersonal skills
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance or Accounting; MBA a plus
- Entertainment experience a plus
- NetSuite experience a plus
Pay and Perks:
At Crooked, we believe in paying employees at or above market rates that are informed by salary surveys and industry benchmarks. In addition to competitive salaries, we offer full-time employees excellent benefits including:
- Competitive salaries
- Paid healthcare
- 401k match
- Generous vacation and paid leave including, sick leave, bereavement leave, pregnancy loss, and disability leave
- 20 weeks of paid parental leave
- Commuter reimbursement or paid parking
- Communications stipend
- Professional development opportunities
- Did we also mention our offices are closed at the end of the year?
When we open up a position, we conduct a market analysis to ensure we have the most up-to-date data. Once we’re ready to extend an offer, we look at the individual’s years of relevant experience and other compensable factors to determine a competitive offer. And for this role, the starting salary is $90,000.
About Us
We welcome everyone—as an inclusive workplace, we invite all our employees to bring their authentic, whole selves to work. Our mission and intent is to encourage people from every nation, race/ethnicity, belief, gender, gender identity, sexual identity, disability, and culture to feel respected and valued for their unique contributions to our company.
We approach our work courageously, adapt and improve constantly, and celebrate the wins big and small. We cultivate a culture of creativity and expression at Crooked Media. We hire the best talent, ensure they have the tools and training they need, and set them free. If you have a high degree of ownership and are driven to excel, you’ll fit right in.
That’s it. End of mission.
What We Do
In 2016, a sane conversation about politics was most needed but hardest to find. Cable news panels, you may have noticed, are not the best.
Twitter is a great place to slowly lose your mind. Everywhere, the work of excellent journalists competes with click-bait, fake news, and whatever Donald Trump is tweeting about. We need a better conversation about politics in this country. That’s why we launched Crooked Media — to talk about politics in a way that doesn’t make you want to throw your phone out the window – with shows and analysis and other forms of sweet, sweet content that inform, entertain, and inspire action. No, we’re not unbiased, we’re not always serious and we’re certainly not always right. But we promise a no-bullshit conversation about politics and culture where you can laugh, cry, scream, ridicule us daily, share your ideas, and hopefully decide that you want to help fix this mess too. That’s it. End of mission.
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