Company Description
At Nielsen, we are passionate about our work to power a better media future for all people by providing powerful insights that drive client decisions and deliver extraordinary results. Our talented, global workforce is dedicated to capturing audience engagement with content - wherever and whenever it’s consumed. Together, we are proudly rooted in our deep legacy as we stand at the forefront of the media revolution. When you join Nielsen, you will join a dynamic team committed to excellence, perseverance, and the ambition to make an impact together. We champion you, because when you succeed, we do too. We enable your best to power our future
Job Description
The Finance Analyst role is a member of the Audience Measurement FP&A team, specifically supporting a portion of this $3B+ segment revenue. In this role, the Finance Analyst will play an integral part in the forecasting, planning, and reporting of revenue across a sales vertical and is the primary finance partner for the Sales Team and Client Business Partners. Additionally, the Finance Analyst will play an integral part in reporting and forecasting the performance of one of Nielsen’s key growth products (Nielsen One Ads). The Audience Measurement FP&A team is a fast paced, high performing team that executes financial planning and analysis. Cross-functional partnership is required across the entire Nielsen organization to develop and improve reporting packages, planning processes, financial models and analytics. This role will also provide ad-hoc analysis as needed to support and influence senior leadership. Strong financial acumen including experience with forecasting, budgeting, and variance analysis is a requirement.
Responsibilities
- Ownership of forecasting and reporting for revenue across particular sales vertical(s).
- Finance partner for Sales Team and Client Business Partners
- Align on weekly forecast and forecast updates with Sales Team to facilitate communication with CRO.
- Ownership of forecasting and reporting of Nielsen One Ads product. This includes KPI tracking, story-telling, and reconciling data sets to confirm accuracy.
- Ensure effective revenue transition onto S4 (O2C) and SAP Analytics Cloud (planning & reporting).
- Lead month close process - ensure required journal entries are submitted and oversee variance analysis to ensure accurate and insightful reporting.
- Continually assess and improve revenue reporting, metrics and analyses).
- Provide financial mentorship to sales team to ensure compliance with Nielsen’s financial policies and procedures.
- Preparation and consolidation as part of the financial cycle including monthly/quarterly budgeting & forecasting, annual plan setting, variance to plan and forecast analysis, etc.
- Support for the Board of Directors and other Senior Leadership presentation preparation.
- Assist in reporting, inputs, and alignment for Sales Incentive Plan.
- Collaborate with Sales Team and Legal on contract terms and fees included in agreements
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance
- 1-2 years’ experience in Accounting or Finance Role
- Must have a strong work ethic, self-motivated work style and a good attention to detail and enjoy a dynamic environment with new challenges and changing work priorities
- Individual contributor and team player with great communication and interpersonal skills
- Strong organizational skills, close attention to detail and ability to meet deadlines
- Ability to adapt quickly and learn new tasks independently
- Strong quantitative and analytical competency
- Experience manipulating large data sets and turning them into usable information
- Comfortable working cross-functionally and with senior leadership
- Proficiency in Excel, Word, PowerPoint and Google Suite
- Previous Operations Finance experience is a plus
- SAP Financial systems and Hyperion Financial Management (HFM) experience strongly preferred
Additional Information
Enabling your best to power a better media future. Our comprehensive benefits package (including health & wellness plans, 401(k) retirement coupled with a Nielsen match, a generous paid time off policy, company provided car for those who qualify, and if eligible, a discretionary incentive/bonus) is designed to be inclusive for all employees and families, and we take pride in ensuring that employees are rewarded holistically for the role they are doing and their performance.
A reasonable estimated salary range for a new employee has been provided. It would be adjusted based on each employee's geographic location. The position of each employee within a compensation range at Nielsen is dependent on several individual circumstances, such as experience, training, certifications and other business requirements/needs.
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