Senior Financial Planning & Analysis Manager

Job Description

Scope of this role

• Nielsen is seeking a highly analytical, strategic, and results-driven Senior Manager, FP&A to join our Global capability center.
• This is a highly visible leadership role responsible for owning the end-to-end revenue forecasting, planning, and predictive
• modeling processes, while simultaneously spearheading enterprise-wide transformation and automation initiatives.
• You will act as a pivotal finance business partner to global commercial and executive leaders, ensuring fiscal discipline and top-
• line growth. Success in this role requires a high-impact individual who blends deep analytical rigor with a proven track record of
• driving process standardization, systems integration, and organizational synergy within a global matrix environment.

Responsibilities:

Revenue Planning & Predictive Modeling

• Strategic Planning: Lead the financial planning cycles (annual budgeting, quarterly forecasts, and monthly outlooks) for global revenue streams, ensuring strict alignment with corporate strategical objectives.
• Variance &  Performance Analysis: Oversee the monthly financial close process. Conduct deep-dive variance analysis of actuals versus forecast (net revenue, gross margin, unit economics), providing qualitative insights and highlighting risks/opportunities to the executive team.
• Revenue Optimization: Analyze complex revenue drivers, pricing strategies, and customer trends to support go-to- market strategies and commercial negotiations.
• KPI Governance: Own the governance of revenue management dashboards, establishing metrics that accurately track business performance and trade efficiency.

Enterprise Transformation & Process Improvement

• Drive Automation: Champion a continuous improvement mindset. Lead the automation of financial reporting and forecasting models at the corporate level to transition the team from manual data gathering to high-value strategic analysis. 
• Standardization: Actively partner with global finance leaders to drive standardization, synergy, and accuracy across all FP&A processes, ensuring adaptability with the latest company priorities.
• Systems Integration: Play a key role in the integration and optimization of Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) systems and BI tools (e.g., SAP Analytics Cloud, Power BI) to enhance the efficiency of the FP&A
• Change Management: Act as a transformation ambassador guiding the FP&A A team through operational shifts and ensuring the successful adoption of new financial systems and best practices.

Business Partnering & Leadership

• Executive Support: Present comprehensive financial performance packages to Senior Management, clearly articulating key performance drivers and structural implications of strategic initiatives.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Foster strong, constructive relationships with Controllership, Commercial, Accounting, and Product teams to align data, ensure accurate accruals, and support complex business decisions.
• Team Leadership: Mentor, develop, and manage a high-performing team of FP&A analysts and managers, cultivating a culture of accountability, precision, and proactive problem-solving.

Qualifications

• MBA (Finance) , CA , CPA or equivalent
• Prior FP&;A experience required (8-10 years minimum); ideally experienced communicating
• directly with senior stakeholders
• Background in advertising-technology and/or information services industry is beneficial; expertise in measuring and reporting software / recurring revenue metrics is preferred
• Experience in financial management, strategic thinking, commercial and business intuition, reporting, accounting, business partnering, communication, and storytelling; knowledge of SAP S4 HANA (required), GAAP & SOX Compliance
• Ability to develop constructive relationships with executives and colleagues across the organization
• Experience with analytics tools such as SAP Analytics Cloud, Power BI, Google Data Studio, and spreadsheet tools (excel, Google Sheets) is required
• Prior experience in the Media, Ad-Tech, or Audience Measurement industry or a highly scaled Technology/Software company is preferred.

Additional Information

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