Financial Analyst

Work Schedule: Onsite, Monday through Friday, 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM Eastern Summary The Financial Analyst will play a key role in tracking, analyzing, and reporting on financial data to support business planning and decision-making. This role is part of the Global Pluto TV Financial Planning & Analysis team. Our team is collaborative, passionate and aims to drive business decisions on all levels through high quality, accurate, timely, relevant data, analysis, and insights. This position will primarily support all areas, with a focus on SG&A and Marketing costs and help with KPI metrics pacing reporting. The ideal candidate will be an effective communicator and have a solid background with PO requests, cash payments, and data ingestion. Responsibilities Include Purchase Orders: Creating and managing purchase orders, ensuring accuracy and proper coding, while tracking status through approval and fulfillment. Cash Payments: Supporting OTC to ensure aging balances are accurate and vendors are paid in a timely manner. Systems: Maintaining data integrity within financial systems (e.g., Longview, SAP, Google Sheets, Tableau, Claude) used for pacing, forecasting, and reporting. Forecasting: Assist the team with reporting cycles, including monthly forecasts, annual budgets, and long-range plans globally. Month-End Close Support: Assist the team with monthly journal entries, accruals, and reconciliations. Reporting: Assist in the preparation of weekly pacing reports highlights business performance. Financial Operations: Leverage Claude / Claude code to help the team build automated reporting. Ad Hoc Analysis: Sourcing, consolidating, and organizing financial data to create clear and actionable analysis for internal review and rapid decision-making. Basic Qualifications 1+ years of work experience in finance, accounting, or similar quantitative role; media, entertainment, and/or technology with AI (Claude) experience a plus. Advanced Google Workspace suite skills, particularly Sheets and Slides. Strong financial modeling, forecasting, and analytical skills. A willingness and quick ability to learn new software. Excellent communication and presentation skills - be able to handle and synthesize large datasets to deliver critical insights in an easy-to-digest format for management and external partners. Ability to work independently in a fast-paced environment. #J-18808-Ljbffr