GDS FP&A Senior Finance Director

1 Month ago • 4-8 Years • Finance • $100,000 PA - $300,000 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

Nielsen seeks a Senior Finance Director to lead the Global Data Solutions (GDS) FP&A team. This role involves leading forecasting, planning, and reporting for a ~$500m cost base, partnering with senior leadership to transform the organization, and acting as a trusted advisor on financial impacts. Responsibilities include managing people and non-people costs, capex, risk and opportunities, providing insightful analysis and reporting, optimizing cash and ROI, and embedding product profitability. The ideal candidate will be a collaborative, proactive leader with strong analytical skills, excellent communication, and the ability to influence senior leaders. They must also be adept at managing ambiguity and driving continuous improvement within the FP&A function.
Must have:
  • Lead GDS finance team
  • Financial planning & forecasting
  • Insightful analysis & reporting
  • Strategic advisory to GDS
  • Optimize cash & ROI
  • Collaborate across teams
Perks:
  • Comprehensive benefits package
  • 401k retirement plan with match
  • Generous paid time off
  • Company provided car (eligible)
  • Discretionary incentive/bonus

Job Details

At Nielsen, we are passionate about our work to power a better media future for all people by providing powerful insights that drive client decisions and deliver extraordinary results. Our talented, global workforce is dedicated to capturing audience engagement with content - wherever and whenever it’s consumed. Together, we are proudly rooted in our deep legacy as we stand at the forefront of the media revolution. When you join Nielsen, you will join a dynamic team committed to excellence, perseverance, and the ambition to make an impact together. We champion you, because when you succeed, we do too. We enable your best to power our future.

Scope of This Role

Looking for a strong leader to join the Audience Measurement FP&A team to partner with the Executive Committee member leading Global Data Solutions. The Audience Measurement FP&A team is a fast paced, high performing team that drives outcomes. The role will lead forecasting, planning, and reporting of a cost base of ~$500m and play a key role as a strategic partner in transforming the organization to deliver audience measurement of the future.  This individual must be a collaborative problem-solver who not only understands the numbers, but also the broader business context around to drive business performance. To be successful you will need to communicate effectively and influence senior leaders to make data driven decisions, working across organizational boundaries to effect change.

Responsibilities

    • Lead the GDS finance team to deliver financial planning and forecasting cycles for people cost, non people cost and capex.
    • Monitor and manage risks and opportunities.
    • Provide insightful analysis and reporting against these plans and prior year performance.
    • Act as trusted advisor to the GDS team, providing recommendations to senior leadership on financial impacts.
    • Optimize cash and ROI - manage a scalable cost structure, identify and implement efficiencies Investment appraisal, support appropriate investment decisions based on a clear understanding of ROI and trade offs.
    • Embed product profitability so there is a shared understanding of end to end performance of products.
    • Partner with key stakeholders including IT, Operations, Commercial, Accounting, HR to deliver on objectives.
    • Be a champion of continuous improvement of the FP&A function through the identification of opportunities across people, processes, and technology.

A Little About You

    • A successful Senior Director will be a proactive leader who wants to drive results. A strong analytical mind with the desire to challenge the status quo and identify opportunities while managing downside risk. With a growth mindset they want to be part of building the finance team of the future.
    • Self starter with a curious mind and a sense of urgency.
    • Effective communicator with the ability to influence financial and non financial audiences.
    • Demonstrated ability to prioritize based on impact.
    • Ability to deliver results in an accurate and timely manner while adapting to changes in priorities.
    • Strong business acumen and analytical skills, confidently present insights and recommendations Demonstrated ability manage through ambiguity and deliver results.
    •  Desire to drive continuous improvement of the FP&A function, including implementing best practices, streamlining processes and leveraging technology to enhance efficiency and effectiveness.
Nielsen: Enabling your best to power a better media future. Our comprehensive benefits package (including health & wellness plans, 401(k) retirement coupled with a Nielsen match, a generous paid time off policy, company provided car for those who qualify, and if eligible, a discretionary incentive/bonus) is designed to be inclusive for all employees and families, and we take pride in ensuring that employees are rewarded holistically for the role they are doing and their performance.

A reasonable estimate of salary range for a new employee to be offered this role would be $100,000 - $300,000 which would be adjusted based on each employee's geographic location.  The position of each employee within a compensation range at Nielsen is dependent on several individual circumstances, such as experience, training, certifications and other business requirements/needs.  

Nielsen is committed to hiring and retaining a diverse workforce. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action-Employer, making decisions without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability status, age, marital status, protected veteran status or any other protected class.

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