Welcome to Warner Bros. Discovery… the stuff dreams are made of.
**Who We Are… **
When we say, “the stuff dreams are made of,” we’re not just referring to the world of wizards, dragons and superheroes, or even to the wonders of Planet Earth. Behind WBD’s vast portfolio of iconic content and beloved brands, are the storytellers bringing our characters to life, the_ creators_ bringing them to your living rooms and the dreamers creating what’s next…
From brilliant creatives, to technology trailblazers, across the globe, WBD offers career defining opportunities, thoughtfully curated benefits, and the tools to explore and grow into your best selves. Here you are supported, here you are celebrated, here you can thrive.
Your New Role...
The Senior Analyst, Financial Contract Solutions is the technical owner of several applications supported by the Talent and Deal Management team. The Sr. Analyst will assist the overall team, as well as key stakeholders across various tasks related to the applications and business processes, including improving business processes and aligning key metrics for the applications and integrations that are part of the Enterprise Systems and Services, Talent & Deal Management Solutions team.
Your Role Accountabilities...
Operations and Project Management
- Work directly with personnel from multiple business units including Rights, Business Affairs and Production finance teams to fully understand, gather and document business requirements
- As part of the ongoing effort to streamline and standardize WBD processes, represent the technology team in studio-wide process evaluation and redesign sessions
- Provide business analysis support for system migrations, consolidations and ongoing enhancements
- Create Functional Specifications and Design documents
- Communicate complex finance and rights management concepts to offshore technical team
- Review proposed technical designs for feasibility and assurance that they meet end-user requirements
- Perform Functional Acceptance and System Integration testing
- Coordinate User Acceptance testing/ obtain user sign-off on fixes/enhancements
- Assist in establishing and coordinating the project plan for migration of the project into production
- Assist with developing and defining new and improved workflow and initiatives
- Provide training materials and end-user training for new processes
- Assist management with special assignments, such as evaluating vendors, gathering/evaluating consultant proposals, or other responsibilities as requested
- Assist with implementing innovative IT solutions to drive business transformation
- Provide expert technical and functional advice and assistance for multiple projects
- Assist management with the selection of technology solutions that are aligned with enterprise-wide architecture/technology
- Participate in process improvement/re-engineering efforts and work with Advisory Developers/Architects to ensure that application/technology solutions align with enterprise-wide direction
- Build diagrams representing as-is (current state) architecture and target architecture (future state)
Strategy
- Collaborate with key stakeholders to understand business requirements and dependencies to better align business processes
- Assist in developing and executing a methodology to evaluate, prioritize and monitor the success of the business processes
- Assist with creating comprehensive and meaningful presentations for business users
- Create dashboards for use in ongoing business planning and goal measurement through KPIs
- Evaluate technology strategy, organization, and business applications
- Help formulate the overall solution strategies and roadmaps
Analytics
- Develop comprehensive performance analysis of business processes and review ways of improvement
- Actively participate in stakeholder meetings with the goal of understanding all major projects and initiatives
- Map business capabilities based on EA best practices and discover applications related to each business capability
- When moving from old systems to new ones, create roadmaps with all dependencies
- Accurately and clearly articulate business requirements and provide relevant, logical options for solving them
- Assist with creating the lifecycle roadmaps of IT landscapes: Assess applications by business criticality and functional & technical fit
Qualifications & Experiences...
- 5+ years of prior experience in a related field (media, entertainment, business development)
- At least 2 years of experience as a Business Analyst in the ERP Finance and Rights Management
- A bachelor’s or master’s degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Information Technology, Management Information Systems, Electronics, Management, or a related technical field
- Knowledge of best practices for driving business transformation is preferable
- Experience developing data models using Visio, Lucid Charts and/or Miro
- Working knowledge of one or more financial systems (ERP- SAP, Oracle ERP Cloud, PeopleSoft Financials, and Workday Financials), Ariba platforms
- Experience working with SaaS, PaaS, Custom and 3rd Party applications
- Superior analytical and problem-solving skills
- Excellent written and verbal communication
- Superb relationship building skills
- Work collaboratively w/small teams
- Ability to handle multiple assignments concurrently
- Expert user of Microsoft Office (Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Visio) to prepare all documents, presentations, graphs, briefings, and worksheets
Not Required but preferred experience:
- Experience working in a global company
- Experience working with distributed team in multiple geographical locations
- Some visualization tool knowledge would be helpful (i.e. Tableau, Power BI)
- Comfortable in working in highly iterative and somewhat unstructured environment
- Experience with SAP ECC/CRM, Salesforce, Workday, Informatica, ServiceNow, Beeline
How We Get Things Done…
This last bit is probably the most important! Here at WBD, our guiding principles are the core values by which we operate and are central to how we get things done. You can find them at www.wbd.com/guiding-principles/ along with some insights from the team on what they mean and how they show up in their day to day. We hope they resonate with you and look forward to discussing them during your interview.
Championing Inclusion at WBD
Warner Bros. Discovery embraces the opportunity to build a workforce that reflects a wide array of perspectives, backgrounds and experiences. Being an equal opportunity employer means that we take seriously our responsibility to consider qualified candidates on the basis of merit, without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, mental or physical disability, and genetic information, marital status, citizenship status, military status, protected veteran status or any other category protected by law.
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