Finance Analyst jobs in United States

Job title : Senior Finance Analyst : Movies and Series

Job Location : Gauteng, Randburg Deadline : October 14, 2025

Key Performance Objectives

Business Partnering

• Design, maintain and improve upon robust budgeting model (record trends, understand drivers, correlation, sensitivities, dependencies)
• Prioritise and manage business demands and business partner expectations.
• Facilitation of channel cluster budget and forecast planning cycles.
• Perform analysis and provide commentary on month-end variances against budgets, forecasts and prior years.
• Preparation and analysis of monthly rolling forecasts for Group submission
• Cash flow management through preparation of 24-month treasury forecasts and tracking that actual outcomes align to forecasts.
• Extract, combine and summarise data to analyse the financial impact of new initiatives and effectively communicating key findings to senior leadership to influence and support tactical and strategic business decisions.
• Developing metrics and reports to provide monitoring for new initiatives.
• Proactively partner with business to identify and evaluate opportunities to improve bottom line business performance and ensure that change initiatives are implemented.
• Policy compliance custodian for the channel clusters.
• Tracking business & content financial objectives, as well as projecting and monitoring run rates to ensure that set targets are met.
• Provide support for ad hoc analysis and requests pertaining to outlooks and projects

Financial Reporting & Analysis

• Prepare month end reporting packs for analysis.
• Adhere to Group reporting deadlines including month end; forecasts; budgets; half-year and year-end.
• Review / prepare schedules and reports for statutory reporting packs for half-year and year-end reporting periods.
• Preparation and review of periodic content related journals and accounting entries
• Participate in business unit meetings to provide feedback on results and impact of business plans.
• Prepare key content & content related Balance sheet reconciliations.
• Consult with the Shared Services and auditors to prepare and assist with internal and statutory audits.
• Tracking and management of the procurement process and related key stats
• Content inventory assessment and management (past due and expiring content, system costing and loading errors, content aging, allocation assessments).
• Supporting the continuous development and maintenance of the Synergy Content system in response to changes in content strategy.
• Continuous assessment of the content system and processes in maintain and supplement internal controls.
• Compliance : Regulatory and studio reporting in line with legislation and contractual obligations.

Qualifications

• Must be a CA(SA)

Experience / Skills

• A minimum 5 – 8 years in a Finance Analyst role
• Detailed commercial and financial acumen, balanced with creative flair
• Hands-on experience with financial analysis, modelling and report building
• Exposure to a multi-currency environment, including African currencies
• Sound knowledge of IFRS and Taxation rules
• Industry understanding and experience would be advantageous
• Strong communication and relationship building skills
• Accounting / Financial Services jobs