FP&A Senior Analyst - Consumer Products

Crunchyroll; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary plus performance bonus earnings

Paid annually

Job summary

Crunchyroll is hiring a Senior Financial Analyst, FP&A, to support worldwide Merchandise lines and partner with business leaders in Consumer Products, Home Entertainment, Collectibles and E‑commerce.

You’ll manage budgeting, forecasting, and long‑range planning, and build models to drive revenue growth and profitability. This role values commercial curiosity and collaboration across licensing, retail, and direct‑to‑consumer models. Based in Los Angeles.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in analytical environments (FP&A, Accounting, Consumer Products).
• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business Administration, or related field.
• Experience with budgeting, forecasting, monthly reporting, variance analysis, and financial modeling.
• Experience analyzing revenue, gross margin, operating expenses, and performance drivers.
• Experience within consumer products, licensing, entertainment, retail, physical products, or e-commerce.
• Ability to translate financial results into clear commercial insights.
• Advanced financial modeling skills using Excel and Google Sheets.
• Strong AI tool acumen for insights and modeling.

Responsibilities

• Handle the monthly analysis of actual performance with accounting and business teams.
• Build and maintain financial models for revenue, gross profit, operating expenses, and inventory.
• Develop financial assumptions with business owners, including unit volumes, pricing, royalties, costs, distribution, returns, and timing.
• Support scenario planning and sensitivity analysis for product launches, licensing, and investments.
• Coordinate with Sony Pictures finance, sales, operations, and distribution stakeholders.
• Prepare monthly and quarterly reporting packages and perform variance analysis across key metrics.
• Identify opportunities to automate forecasting and reporting processes.

Skills

Financial analysis

Forecasting

Financial modeling

Variance analysis

FP&A

Excel/Sheets

AI tooling

Enterprise software

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

NetSuite

Adaptive

Board

Job description

About Crunchyroll

Founded by fans, Crunchyroll delivers the art and culture of anime to a passionate community. We super-serve over 100 million anime and manga fans across 200+ countries and territories, and help them connect with the stories and characters they crave. Whether that experience is online or in-person, streaming video, theatrical, games, merchandise, events and more, it's powered by the anime content we all love.

About the role

Crunchyroll is seeking a Senior Financial Analyst, Financial Planning & Analysis, to support its global Merchandise lines of business. Reporting to the Director, FP&A, this role will serve as a key finance partner to business leaders across Consumer Products, Home Entertainment, Collectibles and E-commerce.

The Senior Financial Analyst will support the full FP&A cycle, including budgeting, forecasting, monthly reporting, performance analysis, and long-range planning. The role will help business owners understand financial performance, identify risks and opportunities, and make informed decisions regarding revenue growth, product investment, inventory, profitability, and resource allocation.

The ideal candidate combines strong financial analysis and modeling capabilities with commercial curiosity and the ability to operate across licensing, retail, physical products, and direct-to-consumer business models. Experience with consumer products, entertainment, retail, or e-commerce would be particularly valuable.

We are considering applicants for the location of Los Angeles.

A day in the life of our FP&A Senior Analyst:

You will handle the monthly analysis of actual business performance, working with accounting and business teams to consolidate and interpret financial information. With your excellent interpersonal skills, you will need to build strong relationships across all levels of the company. You will need to produce ad hoc analysis, and help drive efficiency and improvement across Finance and Accounting.

Lead and coordinate budgets, forecasts, and long-range plans for the Merchandise lines of business.

Build and maintain financial models covering revenue, gross profit, operating expenses, and inventory.

Develop financial assumptions in partnership with business owners, including unit volumes, pricing, royalty rates, product costs, distribution costs, returns, markdowns, and product release timing.

Support scenario planning and sensitivity analysis for new product launches, licensing arrangements, retail programs, and strategic investments.

Ensure forecasts appropriately reflect product seasonality, release schedules, customer ordering patterns, and inventory lead times.

Prepare monthly and quarterly reporting packages covering actual performance against budget, forecast, and prior year.

Produce clear variance analysis across revenue, gross profit, operating expenses, inventory, and contribution margin.

Work closely with Accounting to support accurate and timely monthly and quarterly closes.

Coordinate with Sony Pictures finance, sales, operations, and distribution stakeholders where responsibilities are shared across the companies.

Identify opportunities to simplify, automate, and improve forecasting, reporting, and performance management processes.

About You

• 5+ years of experience in highly analytical environments (e.g. FP&A, Accounting, Consumer Products)


• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business Administration, or a related field.


• Experience with FP&A processes, including budgeting, forecasting, monthly reporting, variance analysis, and financial modeling.


• Experience analyzing revenue, gross margin, operating expenses, and business performance drivers.


• Experience within consumer products, intellectual property licensing, entertainment, media, retail, physical products, or e-commerce.


• Ability to interpret financial results and translate them into clear commercial insights.


• Advanced financial modeling skills, ideally with Microsoft Excel and Google Sheets


• Strong AI tool acumen and ability to drive business insight, analysis and modeling


• Experience using NetSuite, Adaptive, Board, or other enterprise software.

Why you will love working at Crunchyroll

In addition to getting to work with fun, passionate and inspired colleagues, you will also enjoy the following benefits and perks:

• Receive a great compensation package including salary plus performance bonus earning potential, paid annually.


• Flexible time off policies allowing you to take the time you need to be your whole self