Financial Analyst
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MGA Entertainment is one of the largest and fastest growing privately held toy and entertainment companies in the world. Headquartered in Los Angeles, and with offices globally, the company creates innovative, proprietary, and licensed consumer products and entertainment properties, including toys, games, dolls, apparel, consumer electronics, home décor, stationery, sporting goods, movies, and television series. The MGA family includes award-winning brands such as L.O.L. Surprise!™, Little Tikes®, Rainbow High™, Shadow High™, Bratz®, MGA’s Miniverse™, Fluffie Stuffiez™ , Na! Na! Na! Surprise™, Micro Games of America™, Baby born® Surprise and Zapf Creation®. For more information, please visit us at www.mgae.com or check us out at LinkedIn, Twitter, Instagram and Facebook.
JOB SUMMARY
This Financial Analyst will be an integral member of the Financial Planning & Analysis team and will have regular interactions with peers and leaders throughout the organization.
ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
• Collaborate with department leads to prepare, validate and trackspends against budgets, forecasts, and long-term plans
• Assist senior analysts and managers with analyses related to product costs, sales and expenses
• Provide inputs to ad-hoc analysis to assist the executive decision-making process
• Monitor and benchmark competition and industry
• Conduct monthly close activities such as variance analysis
• Create back-up materials for Close, Budget and Forecasts
FINANCIAL ANALYST SKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONS
Our ideal candidate is an eager learner who enjoys working in a fast-paced, highly collaborative and creative environment. The position requires excellent interpersonal, communication, and time management skills.
• Excellent communication skills with ability to build relationships
• Ability to prioritize and multi-task under tight deadlines while handling several projects simultaneously
• Ability to remain productive among changing priorities
• Demonstrated “can-do” attitude and solution-driven mentality
• Strong collaboration skills and enjoys working with others
• Understand the importance of accuracy
• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Business, Math, Accounting, or related fields
• 0-2 years of work experience
• Advanced level Excel with some good understanding of data structure
SALARY:
$65,000 – $75,000 /yr