Finance Manager

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 for all finance related matters for their group(s) primarily ensuring that strong financial discipline and analysis is in place to support the decision making across each division and SPE towards achieving its goals and objectives.

The opportunity

We are looking for a Finance Manager to join our team in the Philippines.

Reporting to the Senior Finance Manager in this role 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 of financial reporting and analysis process improvement interaction with senior operational and financial management and excellent critical thinking analytical collaboration presentation & communication skills.

What youll do

• Build financial models and templates that enable deeper financial analyses to influence executive decision making

• Support the development of P&L global annual budgets quarterly forecasts and monthly results analysis at the departmental and divisional level. Includes operating and capital expenses

• Develop the annual rent allocation budget for SPEs owned and leased properties. Own the monthly chargeback process and related adjustments or requests for detailed analysis

• Analyse monthly results variances and prepare narratives around the key drivers of difference

• Prepare report packages with supporting details for department leads executives and corporate submissions

• Provide financial analysis to business and finance leads to enable timely decision making (e.g. cost/benefit analysis what-if scenarios)

• Support the assessment and optimization of key processes around financial planning management reporting capital projects governance and results analysis

What you need

• Bachelors degree in Finance

• At least 4 years relevant work 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

• Experience in building financial models and templates

• Experience partnering with business leaders to support planning forecasting and strategic decision making

• Advanced user of Excel and PowerPoint

• Good understanding of Balance Sheet and Cash Flow statements

• Good understanding of IFRS

• Experience with enterprise planning systems (e.g. SAP Hyperion etc.) and business intelligence tools (e.g. SAP BW Power BI Tableau Essbase etc.)

• Self-starter with strong (proactive) communication and prioritization skills

• Ability to communicate financial concepts across all levels of the organization

• Skilled at data visualization creating impactful presentation & deliverables

• Experience presenting financial analyses and recommendations to management

• Attention to detail and accuracy

Preferred qualifications and experience

• Familiarity with leveraging AI to drive process automation and improvement

• Experience or familiarity with real estate finance

• Prior consolidation experience

• Experience or familiarity with project management concepts and tools

• Experience leading process optimization 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).

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Required Experience:

Manager

Employment Type : Full-Time
Experience: years
Vacancy: 1