Finance Manager, FP&A

Location: Philippines

Working Hours: Permanent night shift – 12:00am to 9:00am Manila time

The Divisional Finance organization at Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) provides business support and partnership across finance related matters.  The team ensures strong financial discipline, high-quality analysis and clear insights are in place to support decision making across each division and SPE in achieving its goals and objectives.

The opportunity

We are looking for a well-rounded finance professional with a strong foundation in both FP&A and accounting, and greater depth in budgeting, forecasting, financial modelling and business partnering.

Reporting to the Senior Manager, Finance, you will support financial planning, investment analysis, and strategic decision making across corporate operations, including facilities and related capital initiatives.

To be successful in this role, you will have hands-on experience and a strong track record in financial reporting and analysis, scalable financial modelling, process improvement, and partnership with senior operational and finance leaders. You will also demonstrate excellent critical thinking, analytical, collaboration, presentation, & communication skills. 

What you’ll do

• Build scalable financial models, consolidation tools and templates that enable departmental and consolidated P&L reporting and deeper financial analyses to influence executive decision making
• Support the development of global P&L annual budgets, quarterly forecasts, and monthly results analysis at departmental and divisional levels, including operating and capital expenditure
• Develop the annual rent allocation budget for SPE’s owned and leased properties.  Own the monthly chargeback process and related adjustments or requests for detailed analysis
• Analyse monthly results, explain actual-to-forecast and actual-to-budget variances,  and prepare narratives on the key business drivers
• Prepare report packages with supporting details for department leads, executives, and corporate submissions
• Provide financial analysis to business and finance leaders to enable timely decision making, including cost-benefit analysis, scenario modelling what-if analysis
• Assess and optimize key processes across financial planning, management reporting, consolidation, capital project governance, and results analysis, with a focus on controls, automation and scalability

What you need

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics or a related discipline
• At least 4 years relevant experience in real estate, entertainment, or technology companies, with at least 2 years in a managerial role
• Experience leading annual budgeting, forecasting, and month-end financial analysis processes
• Demonstrated experience in building scalable financial models, templates and consolidation solutions for departmental and enterprise-level reporting
• Experience working with large and complex datasets, including validating, consolidating and translating data into clear financial insights
• Experience partnering with business leaders to support planning, forecasting, and strategic decision making
• Strong understanding of financial reporting, accounting principles and how they translate into planning, forecasting and business decision making
• Advanced user of Excel and PowerPoint, including complex formulas, data validation, pivot tables and clear presentation of financial insights
• Good understanding of income statements, balance sheet and cash flow statements, and how they connect
• Good understanding of IFRS
• Experience with enterprise planning systems, such as SAP or Hyperion, and business intelligence tools, such as SAP BW, Power BI, Tableau or Essbase
• A proactive self-starter who can work independently, manage competing priorities and communicate effectively with stakeholders across different locations and time zones
• Ability to communicate financial concepts across all levels of the organization
• Skilled in data visualization and the creation of clear, impactful presentations & deliverables
• Experience presenting financial analyses and recommendations to management
• Attention to detail and accuracy

Preferred qualifications and experience

• Familiarity with using AI and automation to improve financial processes, controls and reporting efficiency
• Experience or familiarity with real estate finance
• Experience consolidating data across multiple departments, entities or cost centres
• Experience or familiarity with project management concepts and tools
• Experience leading process optimization and change initiatives

Working hours

This role requires working a permanent night shift to support U.S. business hours (12am to 9am Manila time). Candidates must be comfortable and able to work this schedule on an ongoing basis.

Right to work

This role is based in the Philippines. To enable us to meet our statutory and regulatory obligations, you must have the appropriate immigration permission to work and reside in the Philippines for the duration of your employment.

Sony Pictures Entertainment is committed to equal opportunity in all its employment practices, policies and procedures. No worker or potential worker will therefore receive less favourable treatment due to any characteristic which is protected by applicable law, for example including their race, age, creed, sexual orientation, colour, nationality, ethnic origin, disability, religion, gender, marital status or Trade Union membership (if applicable).

If you require any reasonable adjustments with any part of the recruitment process, including the application or interview process, please contact us at [email protected]. Please put Reasonable Adjustment Request in the subject line of the email.

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