Manager, Strategy, Deal Analysis and Financial Planning

Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.$98K — $182K *
Media
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 3-5 years' experience in strategy/operations in TV/media/entertainment
  • Background in financial planning or budgeting
  • Experience in business development or strategy
  • Proficient in financial modeling and Excel
  • Skilled in PowerPoint and presentation creation
  • Ability to prepare complex financial models for strategic initiatives
  • Television/media experience preferred

Responsibilities

  • Lead quarterly slate reporting to identify performance drivers and risks
  • Prepare detailed series financial models for greenlight approvals
  • Conduct market analyses to track competitive dynamics
  • Monitor series development and pipeline health
  • Synthesize financial analysis into executive-ready reports
  • Support operational analyses for business development and strategy
  • Participate in business development exercises for cash flows and asset evaluation

Benefits

  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams and senior leadership
  • Work in a dynamic environment with varied workstreams
  • Opportunity to influence key investment decisions
  • Involvement in both scripted and unscripted TV portfolios
  • Engage with industry-leading market intelligence strategies
Full Job Description

Your New Role…

Sitting at the intersection of Business Planning, Strategy and Deal Analysis, this role will lend critical support across a dynamic variety of workstreams. Partners with cross-functional teams and senior leadership to deliver date-driven insights on series economics, portfolio performance, and market dynamics to inform key investment and greenlight decisions for the Studio’s industry leading scripted and non-scripted TV production portfolio.

Your Role Accountabilities…

  • Slate Analysis: Leads quarterly slate reporting, including preparation, review, and analyses to identify key performance drivers, and upside opportunities/downside risks. Partner with Finance, Content Sales, and Production teams to validate assumptions and improve forecast accuracy.
  • Greenlight Models & Series Economics: Prepares and presents detailed series financial models to facilitate greenlight approval and post-mortems, and supports other strategic business decisions (e.g., evaluating different licensing structures, profit participations, etc.)
  • Market Intelligence & Industry Analysis: Conducts periodic market share analyses and tracks evolving competitive dynamics across scripted and unscripted TV landscapes.
  • Development & Piping Tracking: Monitors series development sales and pipeline health, including deal flow, conversion trends, and time to pickup. Tracks rights availability across WBTV’s streaming library, identifying opportunities for monetization.
  • Strategic Reporting & Executive Support: Synthesizes complex financial analysis into executive-ready materials. Produces bi-weekly briefing materials summarizing relevant internal deals and external market developments, competitive activity, and strategic implications.
  • Ad hoc Strategic & Planning Analysis: Provides critical support across a wide variety of sophisticated operational analyses, including; evaluating potential ROI of new producer overall deals, driving title-level scenario and profitability modeling, liaising with external partners to analyze co-production economics, conducting targeted analyses on licensing economics and fee benchmarking, etc.
  • Business Development: Participates in various business development exercises as needed (e.g., model cash flows for new business opportunities, potential acquisitions/sale of assets, etc.)
  • Performs other duties as assigned.

Qualifications & Experience…

Work Experience

  • 3-5 years’ relevant work experience in strategy and/or operations within a TV and media/entertainment company.
  • Experience in financial planning and/or budgeting.
  • Experience in business development/strategy.
  • Proficient in Excel and Financial modeling.
  • Experience in PowerPoint and deck building.
  • Experience preparing complex financial models for strategic initiatives or new business opportunities.
  • Television and media/entertainment experience preferred.

Education, Professional Training, Technical Training or Certification

  • MBA or finance background preferred but not required.

Knowledge/Skills

  • Strong quantitative & analytical skills and ability to think strategically to oversee creation of dynamic and detailed financial models to evaluate different operating scenarios for TV-related businesses (including cash-flow models and TV ultimates).
  • Advanced financial modeling skills; high proficiency in Excel to create dynamic financial models to evaluate different operating scenarios for TV.
  • Strong communication & interpersonal skills; active participation in meetings.
  • Complex problem solving and critical thinking skills.
  • Professional maturity and executive presence; effective presentation skills.
  • Ability to be proactive to drive projects forward.
  • Effective multi-tasking and time management; strong planning & organization skil.ls
  • PC based information systems knowledge required.
  • MS Word, PowerPoint and Excel required.

Other Requirements

  • Must be detail oriented.
  • Must be able to communicate effectively and tactfully with all levels of personnel (in person, telephone, written).
  • Must be able to organize and schedule work effectively.
  • Must be able to handle multiple tasks under time constraints in a fast-paced environment exhibiting strong follow-up skills.
  • Must be able to prioritize.
  • Must be able to work flexible hours when necessary.
  • Must be able to maintain confidentiality.

Management has the right to add or change duties and job requirements at any time.

About Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.

Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment is an American video game publisher based in Burbank, California, and part of the newly-formed Global Streaming and Interactive Entertainment unit of Warner Bros. Discovery. WBIE was founded on January 14, 2004 under Warner Bros. and transferred to the Home Entertainment division when that company was formed in October 2005. WBIE manages the wholly owned game development studios TT Games, Rocksteady Studios, NetherRealm Studios, Monolith Productions, WB Games Boston, Avalanche Software, and WB Games Montréal, among others.
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