Commercial Finance Analyst

• Gather, organise, and maintain financial data from various sources.
• Analyse financial trends and performance, identifying variances against budgets and forecasts.
• Assist VP Commercial Finance with preparing and updating financial models to support business decision-making.

• Develop and prepare monthly, quarterly, annual financial and KPI reporting to the business.
• Provide key insights and summary analysis for stakeholders across the business.
• Support the creation of dashboards and visualizations to present financial metrics clearly.

• Prepare budgets and forecasts at each cycle, including analysis of past performance, maintaining the rolling forecast, and uploading data to the finance system (BPC).
• Assist with the mid/long-range planning process and other projects as required. Including project in-year and long-term revenues; assist cost centre managers in accurately forecasting costs and planning future expenditure.

• Understand end-to-end business processes and systems used across various functions such as Sales, Marketing, Content, Operations, Finance and Legal working closely with the regional and central functional teams.
• Regular contact with VP, Commercial Finance, Commercial Finance Analyst peers and business area stakeholders through face-to-face and virtual meetings

• Perform ad-hoc analysis as required to address specific business queries.
• Create and update business process documents;
• Assist VP Commercial Finance with:

• Business case modelling and analysis on new products, business lines, events, promotions and campaigns;
• Market analysis of TV Broadcast, Digital/SVOD, IPTV and Merchandising, Live Events and Home Entertainment sectors in Australia, NZ and the Pacific;
• Work with external partners to develop a deeper understanding of Business drivers and improve processes;
• Developing and utilising financial models used by the CP&A team

• Understand current systems and processes to identify divisional needs and propose new systems or processes that deliver added value.
• Utilise power BI / AI sources in line with company policy to streamline and automate processes.

• Experience with budgeting and forecasting.
• Strong analytical ability.
• Experience with power BI / AI automation tools
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Effective management of conflicting priorities and achievement of successful outcomes.
• Drive and enthusiasm; a genuine desire to learn about the business and develop self.
• Experience using accounting software packages; SAP (S4 and BPC) desirable.
• Professional accounting qualification preferred (CPA / CA qualified).
• Degree qualified in Finance, Business, statistics or similar discipline

• 25 days of annual leave
• 18 weeks paid parental leave
• Annual Flu Vaccinations
• Annual Skin Checks
• Employee Assistance Program
• Access to LinkedIn Learning and Sanctus Coaching

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