Comcast

Engineer 2, Network Engineering (Finance, Resource Planning & Analytics)

Comcast$78K — $117K *
Telecommunications & Hardware
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree in a relevant field
  • 2-5 years of experience in economic evaluation and planning
  • Experience in telecommunications industry and/or public accounting
  • Strong analytical skills with large data sets
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Proficient in Essbase, Oracle, and database tools (e.g., Teradata, SQL)
  • Familiarity with Microsoft Office products, especially Excel and Power BI

Responsibilities

  • Assist in developing strategic plans for business operations
  • Analyze cost and expense issues to find improvement opportunities
  • Recommend changes in analysis methods and assess corporate project impacts
  • Communicate financial metrics and projections regularly
  • Conduct economic evaluations for capital expenditures
  • Track financial metrics to enhance operational efficiencies
  • Perform analysis on large data sets to project financial implications

Benefits

  • Comprehensive benefits package to support physical, financial, and emotional well-being
  • Options for personalized guidance through significant life milestones
  • Opportunity for career advancement within a supportive culture
  • Flexible work schedule, including potential night and weekend shifts
  • Participation in a culture that emphasizes collaboration and innovation
Full Job Description

Job Summary

This job is responsible for a variety of complex economic evaluation and planning duties to support corporate planning, and quality control of justification for capital and expense expenditures. The role provides analysis support for department managers and participates in special projects, preparing data as necessary. The employee has in-depth experience, knowledge and skills in own discipline; usually determines own work priorities; and acts as resource for colleagues with less experience.

Job Description

Responsibilities:

  • Assists in the development of strategic plans for existing, new, or proposed business operations.
  • Provides analysis and evaluation of cost/expense problems and improvement opportunities existing within current business activities.
  • Recommends changes in analysis and methods and procedures; analyzes the impact of various corporate projects and transactions.
  • Analyzes and communicates weekly metrics, monthly results, quarterly and annual projections.
  • Performs and critiques economic evaluation justifications for capital expenditures.
  • Tracks and analyzes key financial metrics and operational procedures to foster process improvements.  Drives operational efficiencies and cost savings.
  • Analyze, review, and modify large data sets using various databases and querying solutions to be able to project financial and resources implications
  • Evaluates financial risks and opportunities by creating and reviewing operational and financial metrics.
  • Assists with the preparation of weekly, monthly, and annual operational reports.
  • Analyzes variances to budget and forecast using operational and financial metrics, and reports findings.  
  • Prepare and distribute organizational reports and analysis to support the monthly, quarterly and year-end operational and financial close processes to ensure that statements are accurate and complete in all aspects.
  • Prepare and analyze monthly invoices and accruals to ensure accuracy to financial statements and reporting, which includes the research, resolution and communication of any potential issues or misstatements.
  • Assist in process improvement and standardization projects by identifying risk areas and recommendation for improvements.
  • Reviews and audits resource information and develop a process to streamline the efforts in the research, analysis, and tracking in this area.
  • Perform various ad hoc projects including researching, analyzing and summarizing data/analysis requests as assigned.
  • Consistent exercise of independent judgment and discretion in matters of significance.
  • Regular, consistent and punctual attendance. Must be able to work nights and weekends, variable schedule(s) as necessary.
  • Other duties and responsibilities as assigned.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience in telecommunications industry and/or public accounting or similar work environment.
  • Strong analytical skills - Ability to manage work with large data sets
  • Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
  • Strong knowledge of Essbase and experience with Oracle
  • Strong knowledge of database tools (Teradata, SQL, Microsoft Visual Studio)
  • Strong knowledge of Microsoft Office Products (Excel, Power Automate, Power BI, Word, and Outlook)

Employees at all levels are expected to:

  • Understand our Operating Principles; make them the guidelines for how you do your job.
  • Own the customer experience think and act in ways that put our customers first, give them seamless digital options at every touchpoint, and make them promoters of our products and services.
  • Know your stuff be enthusiastic learners, users and advocates of our game-changing technology, products and services, especially our digital tools and experiences.
  • Win as a team make big things happen by working together and being open to new ideas.
  • Be an active part of the Net Promoter System a way of working that brings more employee and customer feedback into the company by joining huddles, making call backs and helping us elevate opportunities to do better for our customers.
  • Drive results and growth.
  • Support a culture of inclusion in how you work and lead.
  • Do what's right for each other, our customers, investors and our communities.


Disclaimer: This information has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees in this role. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications.

Skills

Budgeting and Forecasting (Inactive), Collaborative Communications, Data Analytics, Network Operations, Strategic Thinking, Work Collaboratively

Compensation

Colorado Pay Range: $78,505.90 - $117,758.85

This job can be performed in Illinois, Maryland, Minnesota, and Washington with a Pay Range of $71,369.00 - $133,816.87. This job can be performed in California with a good faith estimated pay range upon hire of $64,232.10 USD - $118,948.33.

Comcast intends to offer the selected candidate base pay within the posted range for this role at the time of posting dependent on job-related, non-discriminatory factors such as experience. The application window is 30 days from the date job is posted, unless the number of applicants requires it to close sooner or later.

Base pay is one part of the Total Rewards that Comcast provides to compensate and recognize employees for their work.    Most sales positions are eligible for a Commission under the terms of an applicable plan, while most non-sales positions are eligible for a Bonus.  Additionally, Comcast provides best-in-class Benefits to eligible employees.  We believe that benefits should connect you to the support you need when it matters most, and should help you care for those who matter most.  That’s why we provide an array of options, expert guidance and always-on tools, that are personalized to meet the needs of your reality – to help support you physically, financially and emotionally through the big milestones and in your everyday life. Please visit the on our careers site for more details.

Education

Bachelor's Degree

While possessing the stated degree is preferred, Comcast also may consider applicants who hold some combination of coursework and experience, or who have extensive related professional experience.

Certifications (if applicable)

Relevant Work Experience

2-5 Years

About Comcast

FreeWheel manages the economics of content for the enterprise class of entertainment, offering technical infrastructure for revenue rights management and business operations, wrapped in advisory services. They offer advertising sales rights, display, video, mobile ad management, contract management, professional content, ad serving, reporting, analytics, technology, services, advisory services, business operations, programmatic advertising, advertising marketplace, and linear, and online advertising.

Comcast Careers

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Learn more about Comcast
Size
31,000 employees
Market Cap
$149.9 billion
Industry
Net Income
$10.5 billion
Founded
1963
5 Year Trend
+7.6%
Revenue
$103.5 billion
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