Sr Analyst, Order to Cash Data Analytics

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**Who We Are **

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From brilliant creatives, to technology trailblazers, across the globe, WBD offers career defining opportunities, thoughtfully curated benefits, and the tools to explore and grow into your best selves. Here you are supported, here you are celebrated, here you can thrive.

This position will support the management of the WBD Global Business Services organization through specialized O2C and P2P reporting and analysis. This will require periodic and ad-hoc reports and reporting tools for internal and external customers; This position will support reporting and analysis at the corporate level, as well as divisional level. This position will also assist with high-profile asset financing reports such as AR Securitizations, and AR Factoring.

**The Daily**:

- Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payable Portfolio Reporting
- Researches, analyzes and synthesizes large amount data from multiple sources into business information for Global WBD Order to Cash and Purchase to Pay.
- Create into reports and reporting tools to provide visibility for key AR and AP stakeholders.
- Create reporting to assist stakeholders and leadership in AR Collections, Cash Target, AP Payments, and Cash Disbursement decisioning.
- Provide company-wide as well as division-specific reporting.
- Ensure quality and accuracy of reporting through strong understanding and analysis of data.
- Supports the monthly financial analysis with operations.
- Independently identify and resolve reporting issues. Escalate appropriately.
- Create and maintain periodic and ad-hoc reports using various reporting software like Hyperion Essbase, SAP Business Objects, SQL, MS Suite,
- PowerBI, and Peoplesoft Query.
- Continually assess and implement automation of reporting and portfolio analytics.
- KPIs, Metrics and High-Profile Reporting
- Responsible for sourcing and consolidating data for high-profile company AR reports like AR Securitization, Factoring and Bad Debt Reserves.
- Assist with division-specific reporting and manage consolidated company-wide reporting.
- Manage the various internal and external processes and communications to ensure compliance with all contractual and compliance protocols.
- These include communications with treasury, account payable, accounting, and representatives from the Factoring and Securitization banking institutions
- Create reporting for leadership with Key Performance Indicators, and metrics to assist AR, AP and resource performance evaluation and trending.
- Prepare dashboards and ad-hoc reporting for senior leadership.
- Analyze AR reports, data, and metrics to identify business drivers, opportunities and risks.
- Communicate findings with appropriate stakeholders.
- Communicate trends and potential issues to appropriate stakeholders.
- Continually assess and implement automation of reporting and portfolio analytics.
- Coaching and Training
- Help train and guide more junior level team members
- Acts as a mentor and role model to more junior level team members
- Assists in reviewing work produced by more junior level team members

**The Essentials**:

- Associate or Bachelor degree in business, finance, or accounting
- Experience in reporting from ERPs like SAP, Peoplesoft and/or Oracle required
- Strong understanding of accounts receivables/accounts payables reporting principles & processes
- Strong understanding of general accounting principles preferred
- Ability to use & navigate across various systems & software programs
- Must have strong work ethic & work independently
- Must have ability to manage multiple priorities & competing deadlines
- Advanced analytical skills with the ability to explain & present findings in an easy-to-understand language.
- Advanced verbal & written communication

**Nice to Have**:

- 5+ years in finance/accounting reporting experience, preferred
- Experience working with accounts receivable, preferred
- Experience working with accounts payable, preferred
- Advanced skills reconciling reports for accuracy from datasource, preferred
- Advanced excel skills (pivot tables, lookup formulas, sumfis, index-matchs, if-then formulas, left, right, mid, etc), preferred
- Experience in working with SAP Business Objects, and/or SQL, preferred
- Experience working with various reporting & data visualization tools (Power BI, Tableau, etc), preferred
- Experience working in Media/Entertainment Industry, preferred

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