Commercial Finance Manager, TV Distribution

This is a Full Time Job

Please note that this role is based in the United Kingdom. In order to enable us to meet statutory and regulatory obligations of the United Kingdom immigration system you must have the appropriate immigration permission needed to work and reside in the United Kingdom for the duration of the employment.

TV Distribution licenses SPE content to broadcasters across Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA). It also licences content to third parties to provide to consumers via DVD, Blu-Ray, Video On Demand (VOD) and Electronic Sell Through (EST). This activity is supported by commercial teams operating out of the SPE offices across EMEA.

The Commercial Finance Manager's role is to provide financial planning, analysis, partnering and insight to the TVD and Home Entertainment teams across EMEA. Working closely with the commercial teams, you will support key decision makers with information, analysis, advice, and tools available to make the best choices for SPE.

This position will use these insights to make sure territories have ownership of a 50:50 forecast with all key planning assumptions understood by finance & non-finance collaborators. Excellent communication skills are key to work effectively with local commercial teams, other divisional finance members in the EMEA team, with Home Office Finance in Los Angeles, and with Global Financial Operations across multiple locations.

Building relationships with non-finance collaborators, including Senior Vice Presidents, and confidentially aiding and influencing their decisions is essential for success in this role.

What you'll do:

40% - Planning, Budgeting, Forecasting & Reporting
• Collaborate with territory commercial teams to produce 50:50 budgets, forecasts and MRPs for the EMEA TV Distribution P&L (Contribution and Overheads).
• Operational ownership of the forecast submission, ensuring the financial position communicated to Regional FP&A accurately reflects the aligned product assumptions and sales targets.
• Prepare and communicate concise and insightful management reporting that helps commercial teams and regional finance collaborators understand the forecast, key assumptions, and drivers of difference.
• Consolidate financial risks and opportunities to the current plan, through business partnering activities with the Sales and Sales Planning teams.

20% - Analysis & Support
• Support a variety of collaborators in EMEA TV Distribution by providing customer-focused business analysis and active participation in important meetings.
• Build financial models to support commercial decision making.
• Support Executive Director with finance business partnering & governance for new deals across region.
• Drive additional value through insight led analytics, underpinned by knowledge of SPE's commercial levers and the EMEA market.
• Collaborate with the business to choose and supervise the accurate metrics and measures to guide performance.

15% - Control and Risk Management
• Monitor and appropriately challenge costs.
• Maintain effective controls and documentation of assumptions for all forecast, planning and reporting processes.
• Ensure the accuracy and efficacy of financial models in use by the commercial teams with reconciliation to actual financial results.
• Maintain a high understanding of commercial and financial risks. Advise, and where necessary challenge management.
• Become the key area of control in data management for the supported territories.
• Be a key liaison between EMEA TV Distribution Finance and other finance teams across SPE.
• Understand and improve SPE's working capital position.
• Establish and ensure adherence to Sony accounting policies and IFRS.

15% - Projects and Continuous Improvement
• Contribute to ad hoc projects (including the ''3 Week Forecast'' initiative) and ensure they reflect the needs of territory stakeholders.
• Continually work to drive efficiency through the elimination, standardization, optimization, automation and roboticization of processes and tasks.
• Improve forecasting accuracy.
• Be a SME on the implementation of system improvements.
• Embrace innovation by keeping up to date with advanced technology changes and applying them where appropriate.

10% - Self Development
• Pro-actively manage strengths and development areas through an individual development plan, utilising training, coaching and on the job learning opportunities provided by SPE.

What you have:
• Professional certification (e.g. CIMA, ACA, ACCA) preferred
• Ideally 3-5 years Commercial Finance/FP&A experience
• SAP, Essbase, Excel, PowerPoint, Word
• Knowledge of IFRS and understanding of key financial analysis techniques such as investment appraisal
• The listening, coaching, collaboration, and interpersonal skills required to build relationships with a wide range of stakeholders at different levels
• The emotional intelligence to appropriately challenge stakeholders and to balance the needs of competing stakeholders
• The ability to communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing. Can present complex financial information in a concise way that effectively reaches non-finance team members
• The ability to manage a complex workload and to deliver to deadlines
• The ability to analyse financial and non-financial data to generate unbiased insights that improve the business, including the ability to work with partial or ambiguous data
• The ability to create analysis that can drive high quality decision making and the ability to sell recommendations to stakeholders
• The ability to identify own self-development needs and to work to fulfil them
• Sensitive to cultural differences, works inclusively and acts as a role model for positive behaviours
• Please note that this role is based in the United Kingdom. In order to enable us to meet statutory and regulatory obligations of the United Kingdom immigration system you must have the appropriate immigration permission needed to work and reside in the United Kingdom for the duration of the employment.

How we take care of you:
• Competitive salary, with annual bonus eligibility.
• A choice of comprehensive health plan options that fit your lifestyle including private medical insurance.
• Rest and recharge during a week off during the winter holidays, in addition to the 25 days of paid annual leave.
• Participate in extensive learning & development opportunities at all levels, including curated instructor-led classes and high impact online resources.
• Build your community by joining our Employee Business Resource Groups, and/or Sony Pictures Action – our racial equity and inclusion strategy.
• Access to an employee online store filled with a variety of discounted Sony products.
• Watch the newest movies and TV shows at our exclusive employee screenings at work.
• Entitlement to apply for an interest-free season ticket loan.
• Automatic enrolment in the Company's Pension Plan
• Free counselling and advisory service.
• You will be automatically enrolled in the Company's Life Insurance and Group Income Protection Plans subject to any applicable service requirements.
• The opportunity to attend various social events in our state-of-the-art offices in Paddington.

In addition to the above we have a range of other optional discounted benefits that are reviewed regularly (e.g., gym memberships, travel insurance, activity passes, car leasing, experience days and many more!) If you req

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