FP&A Manager in London

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Your New Role

Join the Consumer Products team as a Financial Planning and Analysis Manager, acting as a strategic partner to Finance and Commercial stakeholders across EMEA territories and categories, as well as Burbank HQ. You’ll play a key role in financial planning and delivering insights that shape long‐term growth. This role offers the opportunity to influence outcomes across diverse product categories and markets.

Your Role Accountabilities

• Act as a key business partner to Toys, Food, Health & Beauty, Promotions and Publishing category teams, providing strategic insights and supporting forecasting and close processes.
• Manage and coordinate revenue close processes across EMEA, ensuring accuracy and timely communication.
• Prepare and consolidate revenues for budget and forecast cycles, delivering insights on category, territory, franchise and top licensees.
• Review and validate forecasts, providing trends, risks, and opportunities to commercial teams.
• Oversee foreign currency translation and apply revenue recognition rules.
• Develop and maintain reporting tools in Tableau/Power BI for forecasting purposes.
• Monitor performance against long‐term plans and provide actionable insights.
• Review Toy market data monthly, highlighting competitor trends and opportunities.
• Support quarterly and year‐end processes, including accruals, reconciliations, and variance analysis.
• Partner with category teams and local territories to drive business planning, licensee reviews, and strategic alignment.

Qualifications & Experience

• Proven experience in financial planning and reporting.
• Background in Retail, Consumer Goods or FMCG preferred.
• Professional qualification (CIMA or ACCA).
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint; Access beneficial.
• Experience with Tableau or Power BI; SAP/BW knowledge advantageous.
• Strong understanding of consumer and retail trends.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, with ability to engage finance and non‐finance stakeholders.
• Ability to manage processes across remote teams.
• Fluency in a major European language (French, German, Spanish or Italian) is an advantage.
• Passion for WBD iconic brands and franchises.

Hybrid Working

This role is advertised as a Hybrid work model, that combines remote and in‐office work, following our current company policy and to be agreed with your Line Manager.

Championing Inclusion at WBD

Warner Bros. Discovery embraces the opportunity to build a workforce that reflects a wide array of perspectives, backgrounds and experiences. Being an equal opportunity employer means that we take seriously our responsibility to consider qualified candidates on the basis of merit, regardless of sex, gender identity, ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marital status, pregnancy, parenthood, disability or any other category protected by law.