Finance Games Placement

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About Warner Bros

Warner Bros. released its’ first motion picture more than 75 years ago and is now a recognized leader in the creation, production, distribution, licensing and marketing of theatrical motion pictures, television programming, video/DVD and related products around the world.

Our internships cover all areas across our business including; Sales & Marketing, Publicity, Retail Distribution, Gaming, Anti-Piracy, IT, Finance and Human Resources. These internships offer you the opportunity to take on real responsibility within a supportive and encouraging business environment, where you will be a key and integral member of the team. Coupled with this you will be enrolled on to our formal intern training programme which will provide you with essential skills and knowledge to help you succeed in your placement and it will enable you to take these newly acquired skills to your next job.

Division introduction

Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, a division of Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Group, is a premier publisher, licensor and a developer of entertainment content for the interactive space across all current and future gaming platforms, including consoles, PC-based and online gaming.
Providing full administration and support to the International Finance Manager and working closely along-side the International Sales Analysis Manager on a number of projects relating to both WBIE videogames and games distributed under third party agreements.

Essential job functions

• General administration support to WBIE International Finance.
• Work with International Games Finance Manager to review physical and digital games forecast models to ensure their integrity regarding release dates, pricing assumption, volumes forecasts and so on.
• Provide monthly analysis of monthly physical and digital games actual/latest forecast for balance of year versus prior forecast or budget.
• Use, maintain and improve the complex reporting files used for month end. Be responsible for updating the Excel-Essbase macros that automate report running.
• Perform rigorous checks by territory, title, platform, month, and GL code to ensure systems are error-free and territory forecasts align with the assumptions issued by the Finance Director.
• Support the Vice President of Marketing and Vice President of Digital Games EMEA and their teams for ad hoc requests for by-title and general market data.
• Develop reporting on digital games and the link between physical and digital.
• Work with the EMEA Sales Games Intern to provide by-territory results on titles and provide actuals vs forecast analysis for physical and digital games.
• Summarise and report back on key findings and trends covering:
  • Platform trends
  • Pricing analysis
  • Product launches
• Investigate and summarise key platform changes, technology innovations and devices that impact upon the interactive marketplace.
• Provide general ad-hoc day-to-day support as and when required.

Skills/abilities required

• Excellent working knowledge of Excel would be preferred.
• Ability to analyse large, complex, multi-dimensional data sets, then extract/visualise the key insights succinctly.
• Degree of quantitative discipline or knowledge of statistics.
• Ability to communicate advanced analysis to all levels of an organization-including explaining and defending conclusions.
• Distinctive problem solving and analysis skills; hypothesis creation and testing mindset.
• Well organised and disciplined, with the ability to plan and prioritise work.
• Business Studies undergraduate preferred.
• Excellent GCSE and A-Level (or equivalent) results.
• Must be self-motivated, focused and be able to work with limited supervision. A focus on results is desired.
• Must be able to communicate with people at all levels in a professional and mature manner.
• Must be analytical and pay close attention to detail.
• A keen interest in gaming and ability to participate in playing games is very much preferred.

How to apply

To apply, please complete the application form below.

Application deadline: 25th January 2015

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