Scope of this role
- Nielsen is seeking a highly analytical, strategic, and results-driven Senior Manager, FP&A to join our Global capability center.
- This is a highly visible leadership role responsible for owning the end-to-end revenue forecasting, planning, and predictive
- modeling processes, while simultaneously spearheading enterprise-wide transformation and automation initiatives.
- You will act as a pivotal finance business partner to global commercial and executive leaders, ensuring fiscal discipline and top-
- line growth. Success in this role requires a high-impact individual who blends deep analytical rigor with a proven track record of
- driving process standardization, systems integration, and organizational synergy within a global matrix environment.
Responsibilities:
Revenue Planning & Predictive Modeling
- Strategic Planning: Lead the financial planning cycles (annual budgeting, quarterly forecasts, and monthly outlooks) for global revenue streams, ensuring strict alignment with corporate strategical objectives.
- Variance & Performance Analysis: Oversee the monthly financial close process. Conduct deep-dive variance analysis of actuals versus forecast (net revenue, gross margin, unit economics), providing qualitative insights and highlighting risks/opportunities to the executive team.
- Revenue Optimization: Analyze complex revenue drivers, pricing strategies, and customer trends to support go-to- market strategies and commercial negotiations.
- KPI Governance: Own the governance of revenue management dashboards, establishing metrics that accurately track business performance and trade efficiency.
Enterprise Transformation & Process Improvement
- Drive Automation: Champion a continuous improvement mindset. Lead the automation of financial reporting and forecasting models at the corporate level to transition the team from manual data gathering to high-value strategic analysis.
- Standardization: Actively partner with global finance leaders to drive standardization, synergy, and accuracy across all FP&A processes, ensuring adaptability with the latest company priorities.
- Systems Integration: Play a key role in the integration and optimization of Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) systems and BI tools (e.g., SAP Analytics Cloud, Power BI) to enhance the efficiency of the FP&A
- Change Management: Act as a transformation ambassador guiding the FP&A; A team through operational shifts and ensuring the successful adoption of new financial systems and best practices.
Business Partnering & Leadership
- Executive Support: Present comprehensive financial performance packages to Senior Management, clearly articulating key performance drivers and structural implications of strategic initiatives.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Foster strong, constructive relationships with Controllership, Commercial, Accounting, and Product teams to align data, ensure accurate accruals, and support complex business decisions.
- Team Leadership: Mentor, develop, and manage a high-performing team of FP&A analysts and managers, cultivating a culture of accountability, precision, and proactive problem-solving.