Financial Analyst (631324) at Planet Professional in CULVER CITY, California

Job Description:

• Excellent organizational skills and rigorous attention to detail.
• Effective communication with internal and external partners.
• Experience performing analysis in Excel and creating spreadsheet models.
• Understanding of GAAP and other accounting principles and/or finance experience with payment processing.
• Experience with SAP or other financial systems to validate payments and balances.
• Able to work as part of a distributed global team.
• Nice to Have Qualifications:Music publishing royalty payment experience.
• Experience defining repeatable processes that reduce and ideally eliminate human error.
• Cross-functional influence; strong personal skills to translate requirements between teams.
• Bachelor's degree or master's degree in business, accounting, finance, or engineering or equivalent industry experience.
• Job Responsibilities:Reconcile invoices and communicate issues both internally and externally.
• Build financial models, including cost estimates and other forecasting.
• Define pricing models and work with Finance to accrue for music publishing related costs.
• Create and manage large spreadsheets, potentially with dozens of tabs and cross-dependencies.
• Reconcile account balances and provide accounting statements to partners.
• Contribute to process improvement; help continuously improve our product.
• Define solutions that can work either regionally or globally; build consensus to help drive adoption.
• Contribute operational requirements to the Legal and Commercial teams.
• Answer external partner invoice related inquiries, onboarding new partners and educating them on self-service tools.
• Work closely with IT to identify and resolve production issues.