Business Consulting - R2R and FP&A Workstreams Senior - Open Location

Overview

This role is part of a Finance Consulting practice supporting the Americas Consulting growth agenda, with a strong focus on the Technology, Media & Entertainment (TMT) sectors. The position involves leading the design and delivery of technology-enabled finance transformations, with deep expertise in Record-to-Report (R2R) and/or Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) and Media & Entertainment (M&E) sector fluency.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end R2R workstreams across the full taxonomy, including:
  • Master data
  • Fixed assets
  • Projects
  • Periodic close
  • Intercompany
  • Sub-consolidation and corporate consolidations
  • Financial reporting
• Lead end-to-end FP&A workstreams across the full taxonomy, including:
  • Long-range/strategic planning
  • Revenue planning
  • Cost of sales planning
  • Other SG&A planning
  • Workforce planning
  • EBITDA planning
  • Cashflow planning
  • Driver-based planning
  • Budgeting, forecasting, and scenario management
• Assess and redesign Record-to-Report and FP&A operating models, processes, and organizational structures; deliver transformation initiatives to improve:
  • Close and reporting effectiveness
  • Planning and forecasting capabilities
  • Governance
  • Overall finance function performance
• Own business process design deliverables, including:
  • L3 and L4 process flows
  • Key design decisions and assumptions
  • Functional and reporting requirements
  • KPIs
  • Master and transactional data requirements
• Facilitate design and solutioning workshops with client Global Process Owners (GPO), business unit leads, subject matter resources (SMR), and technology stakeholders; drive decisions and document dispositions.
• Manage day-to-day delivery, including:
  • Workplan
  • RAID log
  • Scope
  • Deliverable quality
  • Engagement economics, including onshore/offshore mix and global delivery leverage
• Translate R2R pain points into quantified value cases, including:
  • Close cycle time
  • Close efficiency
  • Manual journal entries
  • Automated account reconciliations
• Translate FP&A pain points into quantified value cases, including:
  • Forecasting effectiveness
  • Forecast accuracy
  • Budget cycle duration
  • Forecast cycle duration
  • Revenue opportunities identified
  • Working capital improvements identified
  • Cost reduction opportunities realized
• Coach and develop staff and seniors; contribute to proposals, Phase 0 assessments, and sector thought leadership.

Media & Entertainment Sector Focus

• Film and television title accounting, including studio/content finance processes such as:
  • Title cost accounting
  • Ultimate-based amortization and forecast management
  • Participation and residuals (P&R) calculations and settlements
  • Content asset impairment
  • Title profitability reporting
  • Integration of production, rights, distribution, and financial systems supporting the content lifecycle
• Content cost accounting and amortization, including management of film/television/sports programming rights assets:
  • Capitalization policies
  • Impairment considerations
  • Amortization methodologies
  • Reporting under large content portfolios
• Close, consolidation, and reporting complexity, including:
  • Legal entity and business-unit consolidation across studios, networks, streaming platforms, parks, and experiences
  • Intercompany eliminations
  • Multi-currency reporting
  • Carve-outs and acquisitions
  • Management reporting across diverse revenue streams and distribution channels
• Streaming and D2C financial performance, including:
  • Subscriber, ARPU, churn
  • Acquisition cost and lifetime value metrics embedded into forecasting and management reporting
  • Revenue, content cost, and profitability analysis across subscription and advertising-supported business models
• Advertising, distribution, and content forecasting, including:
  • Revenue planning across linear, digital, and programmatic advertising
  • Affiliate and distribution revenues
  • Theatrical releases
  • Content licensing
  • Sports rights
  • Scenario modeling for audience performance, advertising demand, and release schedules
• Performance management and profitability analytics, including:
  • Title-, franchise-, channel-, platform-, and customer-level profitability reporting
  • Variance analysis
  • KPI development
  • Margin performance monitoring
  • Executive dashboards supporting strategic and operating decisions
• Financial planning complexity, including:
  • Annual budgets, rolling forecasts, and long-range plans accounting for seasonality, production schedules, release calendars, advertising market volatility, subscriber growth, and major sporting or entertainment events
• Ecosystem awareness across studios, broadcasters, streaming platforms, distributors, advertisers, agencies, sports leagues, content owners, and production partners, and how business model differences impact forecasting assumptions, financial reporting, and performance management requirements

Technology Experience

Hands-on experience with one or more of the following:

• SAP S/4HANA (Financial Accounting, Controlling, Asset Accounting, Project Systems)
• SAP Group Reporting, OneStream Consolidations, or other consolidation tools
• SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) and/or Anaplan
• Blackline, Trintech, and other enterprise close management solutions
• Fiori Reporting and/or bolt-on reporting systems/tools such as BW, AoE, etc.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field; MBA or CPA a plus.
• 3+ years of progressive experience in finance transformation, R2R or FP&A process design; controllership or FP&A operations; consulting experience strongly preferred.
• Proven Media & Entertainment sector experience.
• Strong executive communication, workshop facilitation, and written deliverable skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• MBA or CPA
• Consulting experience

Compensation & Benefits

Salary range (US locations):

• New York City, Boston, and Washington DC Metro Areas, Washington State, and Southern California offices: $116,700 to $194,500
• Bay Area California offices: $121,600 to $202,600
• All other offices locations in the US, including Sacramento: $97,300 to $178,300

Individual salaries within these ranges are determined through a wide variety of factors including but not limited to education, experience, knowledge, skills, and geography.

Total Rewards package includes:

• Medical and dental coverage
• Pension and 401(k) plans
• Paid time off options

Location

Anywhere in Country