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The ideal candidate will partner closely with Film Sales leadership to provide financial insights, support business decision-making, and evaluate commercial opportunities, while leading Agency-wide revenue forecasting, budgeting, financial modeling, reporting, and analysis.\nReporting to the Senior Vice President of Finance, this individual will help drive accurate revenue planning, improve financial visibility, and provide meaningful insights that support executive decision-making. The role offers the opportunity to partner closely with senior Finance leadership and Film Sales executives, contributing to both divisional performance and the Agency's overall revenue planning process.\nSuccess in this role requires strong analytical skills, financial modeling expertise, business acumen, and the ability to build trusted relationships across Finance and business teams. The successful candidate will be comfortable operating independently, owning key financial processes, and providing recommendations that support business decisions.\nKey Responsibilities\nStrategic Finance Business Partner\nServe as the primary Finance Business Partner to the Film Sales division, acting as a trusted advisor to department leadership.\nPartner with business leaders to evaluate financial performance, support strategic initiatives, and provide financial guidance on key operational and commercial decisions.\nDevelop a deep understanding of the Film Sales business, including the sales pipeline, deal activity, revenue drivers, client trends, and overall business performance.\nProvide financial modeling, scenario analysis, and actionable insights to support deal evaluations, business planning, and resource allocation.\nPartner with department leadership to develop annual budgets, quarterly forecasts, and long-range financial plans aligned with business objectives.\nMonitor business performance against forecast, identify risks and opportunities, and recommend actions to improve financial results.\nPrepare financial analyses and presentation materials to support business reviews and executive decision-making.\nAgency Revenue Planning & Analysis\nOwn the Agency's end-to-end revenue planning process, including annual budgeting, quarterly forecasting, long-range planning, and monthly forecast updates.\nDevelop and maintain the Agency revenue forecast by partnering with business leaders to evaluate sales pipeline activity, deal flow, booking trends, and key revenue assumptions.\nLead the forecasting process by validating assumptions, challenging forecast inputs, and driving improved forecast accuracy across Agency business units.\nBuild, maintain, and enhance complex financial models supporting forecasting, budgeting, strategic planning, and ad hoc analyses.\nPrepare monthly and quarterly financial reporting packages, executive presentations, variance analyses, and performance reporting.\nAnalyze revenue trends, commissions, forecast variances, and key business drivers to identify risks, opportunities, and actionable insights.\nLead the consolidation and review of revenue forecasts across the Agency, ensuring assumptions are aligned, risks and opportunities are identified, and recommendations are provided to senior Finance leadership.\nRevenue Operations & Cross Functional Partnership\nPartner closely with Accounting to support revenue recognition and ensure alignment between Film Sales division operational activity and financial reporting.\nCollaborate with Business Affairs, Legal, Sales, Operations, and Corporate Finance to support deal modeling, revenue planning, and reporting.\nProvide financial analysis to support commercial opportunities, new business initiatives, and strategic projects.\nEnsure consistency, accuracy, and transparency in Agency revenue reporting and forecasting.\nServe as a key liaison between Finance and business teams to support informed decision-making and operational execution.\nProcess Improvement\nIdentify opportunities to improve forecasting methodologies, financial models, reporting processes, and overall planning effectiveness.\nDevelop scalable reporting tools, dashboards, and KPI reporting that improve visibility into revenue performance.\nDrive continuous improvement initiatives that enhance reporting efficiency, forecasting accuracy, and financial insights.\nRecommend and implement best practices that strengthen the Agency's FP&A processes and capabilities.\nQualifications\nBachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business Administration, or a related field. MBA preferred.\n7+ years of progressive experience in Finance, FP&A, Corporate Finance, or related financial planning roles.\nMust be able to work on-site at our Los Angeles office on a hybrid schedule.\nExperience supporting revenue-focused businesses within the film, television, media, entertainment, or agency industry.\nDemonstrated experience with forecasting, budgeting, financial modeling, waterfall modeling, variance analysis, and management reporting.\nStrong understanding of sales pipeline analysis, deal modeling, revenue drivers, and financial performance measurement.\nAdvanced Microsoft Excel skills, including complex financial modeling, data analysis, and reporting.\nExcellent analytical, organizational, and problem-solving skills with exceptional attention to detail.\nStrong communication and presentation skills with the ability to build relationships and influence business partners across multiple levels of the organization.\nAbility to work independently, manage multiple priorities, and thrive in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment.\nExperience with ERP and financial planning systems such as SAP, Workday, Adaptive Planning, Anaplan, Hyperion, or similar platforms.\nExperience with business intelligence and reporting tools such as Power BI or Tableau.\nCore Competencies\nFinancial Planning & Analysis\nRevenue Forecasting & Planning\nFinancial Modeling and Waterfall Modeling\nStrategic Business Partnership\nSales Pipeline & Deal Analysis\nExecutive Reporting\nCross Functional Collaboration\nBusiness & Financial Acumen\nProcess Improvement\nCommunication & Presentation Skills\nPer local requirements and in the interest of transparency, the rate shown below reflects the prevalent current hiring range for this position. Hiring pay rates are based on a number of factors, including location and may vary depending on job-related qualifications, knowledge, skills and experience. The company strives to provide locally competitive rewards packages, which include base rate along with, as applicable, short- and long-term incentives, growth and developmental opportunities, and robust benefits, such as health care, retirement, vacation and other paid time off, and additional offerings.\nHiring Rate Minimum:\n$120,000 annually (minimum will not fall below the applicable state/local minimum salary thresholds)Hiring Rate Maximum:\n$160,000 annuallyWME is an equal opportunity employer and encourages applications from qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, or religion or belief.","description_format":"text","description_chars":7405,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":7,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":false},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United States","iso":"US","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Media & Entertainment","Content Creation","Digital Media"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-27T22:39:24Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":14,"band":"cold","label":"Long shot","p_open":0.9,"p_active":0.574,"p_room":0.28,"age_days":94,"expected_fill_days":36,"reasons":["conf:50","velocity","win:tail","crowd:"],"computed_at":"2026-10-25T05:49:26Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":120000,"is_top_pay":false},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/wme-senior-manager-finance","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/wme-senior-manager-finance.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-25T08:08:20Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":11601,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-26T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":1780327},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=1780327"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fwme-senior-manager-finance"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fwme-senior-manager-finance"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fwme-senior-manager-finance"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/wme-senior-manager-finance\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fwme-senior-manager-finance"}]}