Marketing and Publicity Finance Administrator, Warner Bros Discovery
Office located in Theobald's Road, London
Entertainment company
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Entertainment company
1001+ employees
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Office located in Theobald's Road, London
1001+ employees
Company mission
To take the world’s greatest possibilities and make them a reality - creating impact, inspiring imagination, and building connections.
Role
Who you are
- This role requires an extremely organised self starter who thrives in a highly pressurised environment
- Work experience in a finance administration role is essential, ideally within film distribution, broadcasting or a media environment
- Advanced skills in Microsoft Excel
- Strong numeracy skills and attention to detail, ensuring accuracy in financial processes
- Strong problem-solving skills, with the ability to address complex issues and implement effective solutions
- Highly organised, with the ability to prioritise tasks and meet tight deadlines
- Excellent communication and multi-tasking skills, with confidence in managing internal and external relationships
- Knowledge of systems including SAP, ICampaign, P-Card, Concur, Apex/SPARC, Beeline/FlexTalent would be advantageous
What the job involves
- The WBUK Marketing and Publicity department strives to create and maintain a best-in-class position within the industry
- As part of the leading film studio in the world, WB UK has steadily become the major destination for WB European tours and premieres
- Also as the leading English speaking territory outside of the US, the UK media stories make headlines worldwide so we are continually under the spotlight from our US colleagues
- The combination of these two factors means WB Publicity UK needs to be a dynamic, forward thinking, and professional department
- The Marketing and Publicity Finance Administrator is a key role within the department providing financial and administrative support for two very busy teams
- Monitor the financials of film marketing campaigns, ensuring accurate tracking and alignment with reconciled media plans
- Investigate and resolve discrepancies between invoices, reconciled plans and POs through effective collaboration with internal teams and external agencies
- Process goods receipts for marketing POs against reconciled media plans and budgets, ensuring alignment within the team and vendor expectations
- Raise and manage all POs for the Publicity department in the UK & Ireland, ensuring they are created in advance of publicity activities and services being provided
- Work with senior leaders and cross-functional teams across the UK, EMEA, and global markets to align project budgets, resolve operational challenges and ensure seamless workflows across finance, publicity, IT, legal and HR
- Partner with the VP and Director of Publicity Film, Games, TV & Streaming UK & Ireland to determine annual publicity budgets for the slate of films, amending and updating where necessary
- Analyse previous campaign budgets to enhance accuracy in future budget planning and inform decision-making
- Coordinate with internal and external stakeholders to manage vendor relationships, focusing on procurement compliance and efficient vendor onboarding
- Collaborate with the events team to set up vendors, arrange upfront payments, and record budgets requiring contributions to ensure project costs are accurately captured
- Reconcile budgets post-event comparing spend vs actuals, breaking down all incurred costs, and associated POs and highlighting over or underspend
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Warner Bros Discovery (WBD) is an entertainment company formed from the 2022 merger of Warner Bros and Discovery. It is a leader in the creation, production, distribution, licensing, and marketing of content, with Warner Bros alone boasting a huge library – more than 100,000 hours of programming – before the companies were joined. WBD’s portfolio includes Discovery Channel, Warner Bros. Entertainment, Discovery+, HBO Max, and franchises like “Batman” and “Harry Potter”.
Both of the company’s previous businesses have operated throughout the digitisation of the media space. David Zaslav, CEO of WBD, headed Discovery during its expansion into digital media, to make it a “content company” over a “cable company”. The recent focus for Warner Bros has been on next-gen distribution efforts, expanding the availability of its content across platforms and devices to reach the modern viewer. The new company has plans to migrate to one tech stack, which will require extensive retooling, as well as exploring cost-saving automation opportunities for its operations.
Since the merger, the new giant that is Warner Bros Discovery has had a shaky start, forcing the company to wind down operations and cut back on content, which included the very public scrapping of the “Batgirl” movie. However, it now seems the company may have been ahead of the curve, as a wider trend of cutbacks has been seen from peers in the space. This early move, combined with a hyper-focus on cash generation, seeks to establish WBD as an outperformer in an industry on the downturn.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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Company
Company values
- Act as One Team: Trust each other, succeed together, and growth together
- Create What's Next: Be curious, innovate, and focus on the future
- Empower Storytelling: Put creators, consumers and partners at the center, and share extraordinary stories
- Champion Inclusion: Empower others, have courage, and pursue equity
- Dream It & Own It: Advocate the mission, ove with speed, and drive results
Company HQ
Midtown Manhattan, New York, NY
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Leadership
David Zaslav
(CEO, not founder)Spent 17 years at NBCUniversal including as President of NBC Cable LLC and NBC Media LLC.
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