Senior Financial Planning and Analysis Analyst, Crunchyroll
Content
$88-110k
Streaming service for anime and manga
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Streaming service for anime and manga
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$88-110k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To create experiences for anime and manga fans, and to enable them to connect through the content they love.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of experience in Accounting, Finance, Strategic Planning, Investment Banking or Consulting
- Advanced financial modeling skills, with Microsoft Excel and Google Sheets
- Comfortable with managing large volumes of data and summarizing into insightful executive information with understanding of content licensing and acquisition
- Experience using NetSuite, Adaptive, or other enterprise software
- Experience presenting to a non-finance audience
- Experience distilling financial analyses for leadership teams, with the ability to work well across different levels of an organization
- Prior experience at a media/entertainment/tech company
- Anime Fan a plus!
What the job involves
- Crunchyroll's Finance Organization consists of Financial Planning & Analysis, Accounting, and Business Intelligence team members based across multiple global locations
- The FP&A team is looking for a high-visibility Senior Analyst who will help provide data-driven analysis to help define Crunchyroll's long-range plans as it relates to its content acquisition costs
- You will operate at the heart of our organization, leading the budgeting, forecasting, and actual analysis for our content slate
- You will handle the monthly analysis of actual performance, working with accounting and business intelligence to consolidate and interpret financial information
- You will need to produce ad hoc analysis, and help improve efficiency and improvement across Finance and Accounting
- Perform in-depth analysis bringing together licensing, financial, and viewership data attributes to form data-driven conclusions on content cost performance
- Develop frameworks for content cost sensitivity analysis based on relative licensing dynamics including viewership, minimum guarantees and cost per episode
- Maintain long-term company financial models to inform strategy and capital allocation for our content acquisition organization
- Build relationships with content acquisition leaders to perform financial deal analysis for licensed content, co-productions, catalog and renewals
- Support content acquisition pipeline and summarize data into clear, and informative materials for senior executives
- Design, implement, and improve processes related to budgeting, forecasting, financial reporting in our high-growth business
- Perform actuals to budget variance analysis and collaborate with Accounting team to ensure integrity of financial reporting
- Collaborate with data and engineering teams to create systems that provide insights for areas of optimization or improvement
- Assist teams with ad hoc projects relating to our content slate and its aligned goals
- As the Senior Analyst, Financial Planning & Analysis – Content you will report to the Senior Manager, FP&A
- For this role we are considering candidates in the Los Angelas area
- As our FP&A Senior Analyst, Content you will lead the delivery of accurate, and insightful performance analysis of Crunchyroll's content pipeline
- You will put together the global picture and implementing best practice, working with stakeholders across multiple global teams to understand the context behind the numbers and embed consistent reporting and process
Our take
In recent decades, anime - encompassing Japanese, Korean, and Chinese animation 0 has transitioned from a niche interest to a formidable industry, boasting a global market worth approximately $30B. Despite this growth, distribution has historically posed challenges, with series and films often reaching overseas audiences through disparate channels, if at all. Crunchyroll emerged to address this issue by consolidating the largest collection of anime into a single streaming service.
Sony's acquisition of Crunchyroll in 2021 for $1.75B expanded the platform's reach, integrating Sony's extensive animation library into its offerings. this move also positioned Crunchyroll for heightened competition against streaming giant Netflix, known for its substantial investments in anime production and acquisition. Currently, Crunchyroll maintains an unrivaled library of anime content, boasting over 44,000 episodes that have attracted over 0M paying subscribers.
While Crunchyroll initially offered a free, ad-supported tier to its vast community, it appears poised to phase out this option, transitioning to a subscription-based model for all new series. Despite this shift, the platform has implemented a global reduction in fees to stimulate subscription uptake. The success of this strategy remains to be seen, but past experiences with companies like Hulu suggest that it may drive subscription growth and mitigate piracy
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Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Mar 2010
$0.8m
EARLY VC
Feb 2008
$4.1m
SERIES A
Total funding: $4.9m
Company benefits
- Receive a great compensation package including salary plus performance bonus earning potential, paid annually
- Flexible time off policies allowing you to take the time you need to be your whole self
- Generous medical, dental, vision, STD, LTD, and life insurance
- Health Saving Account HSA program
- Health care and dependent care FSA
- 401(k) plan, with employer match
- Employer paid commuter benefit
- Support program for new parents
- Pet insurance and some of our offices are pet friendly!
Company HQ
Lucerne - Higuera, Culver City, CA
Leadership
Kun Gao
(Co-Founder)Co-founded Crunchyroll in 2006 and served as CEO/General Manager/Board Member until 2018. Previously the founder and CTO of Frappr.com as well as a Product Engineer at HOT or NOT.
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