Finance Business Partner, Revenue (B2B Distribution)

SkyShowtime is looking for a talented team of builders and believers to join Europe's latest streaming service, and we’re on the hunt for a Finance Business Partner, Revenue (B2B Distribution) to join our team - based in London.

A joint venture of Comcast and Paramount, a Skydance Corporation, SkyShowtime brings together the best of Hollywood and local entertainment in one place. From movies, and original series from the iconic brands of Universal Pictures, Paramount Pictures, Nickelodeon, DreamWorks Animation, Paramount+, SHOWTIME®, Sky Studios, and Peacock to SkyShowtime Original series, SkyShowtime is Europe’s new home for premium entertainment.

Launched across all of its markets in 2023, SkyShowtime is available in: Albania, Andorra, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czechia, Denmark, Finland, Hungary, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Norway, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain and Sweden.

We continue to build a team of values-led people leaders who understand the power of creativity and shared responsibility, a team that is restless and relentless in seeking new ways to improve and win.

The role:

As the Finance Business Partner for B2B distribution, you will be responsible for managing the performance of SkyShowtime’s growing streaming wholesale business across a wide range of MVPDs & non-traditional partners in our 22 markets. With the support of a Senior Finance Analyst, you will also be responsible for overseeing the end-to-end P&L of our Shareholders’ Linear Channels, with household names such as MTV, Comedy Central, E! and Dreamworks.

Key responsibilities:

• Lead Business Cases to support senior decision makers in exploring new distribution opportunities, including analysis of wider business impacts (e.g. our Direct-to-Consumer business) and consideration of wider strategic goals/business risks.
• Support delivery of the company’s long term B2B distribution strategy, working with the commercial team to build the budget, long range plan and in-year forecasts, and produce relevant materials to update the Board.
• Utilise big data tools (e.g. Tableau) to produce valuable insight/analysis to inform data driven decision making.
• Leverage experience and an inquisitive nature to identify and action areas for continual improvement in a start-up environment.
• Provide effective and constructive challenge to the commercial team to help the business meet its wider strategic goals.
• Analyse trends/investigating variances and identifying risks and opportunities to the plan.
• Manage month-end to ensure the B2B distribution P&L/Cashflows are recorded accurately, and performance is reported clearly to Exec stakeholders (CFO/CBO).
• Manage the day-to-day performance and development of a Senior Finance Analyst, coaching them through tasks and helping to manage priorities.
• Support the successful implementation of our new financial reporting/forecasting tool (Workday), to drive greater accuracy and efficiency in some of our core Commercial Finance processes.

What you’ll bring:

• Ideally you will be a qualified finance professional with >2 years of relevant commercial finance experience.
• Strong experience of influencing business decision-making through the build of consolidated business cases.
• Keen interest in the media and entertainment industry, bringing lots of energy and enthusiasm to thrive in a fast paced start up environment.
• Inquisitive mindset with the drive to become a subject matter expert to pro-actively identify risks/opportunities to the plan.
• Strong track record of working in a fast paced and challenging environment, managing multiple priorities and delivering high quality outputs within short timeframes.
• Highly competent with Microsoft Excel modelling to manage budget, forecasts, and prepare insight/analysis. Some experience of working with big data tools (e.g. Tableau) and Reporting/Forecasting tools (Workday) preferred.
• Strong presentation and communication (written and verbal) skills. Experience of presenting to senior stakeholders.
• Some experience of managing and delivering through more junior resource.
• SkyShowtime is a new business which is rapidly growing and constantly evolving. As such our roles and priorities are ever-changing in order to best meet our business’ needs. You will therefore need to be open-minded, flexible and adaptable to change.

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