I have an interview for this booming media company (turnover is $100mm). Media is not my preferred industry but I need to get experience more than anything - want to break work in banking industry. Ideally, I want to get into FP&A, so I am not sure whether this role is beneficial for getting into FP&A?
Is there any questions that I should ask in the interview to ensure I should get the experience I want? ect. I am planning to ask how much of the role is working on financial end statements/analysis.
Job Description (Junior Financial/Data Analyst)
Trading:
Checking submitted deal sheets for accuracy · Approval of deal sheets · Adding deal sheets to the master sheet and the IP sheet on a daily basis · Reconciling the master sheet and IP sheet on a daily basis · Maintaining accurate “live” statements for media owners, clients and agencies · Reviewing statements for media owners, clients and agencies · Ad hoc requests for statements, analysis and reporting · Weekly reporting of trading numbers to senior staff and trading team · Preparing month end performance analysis · Reconciling master sheet data to the month end management information pack
Finance:
Preparing journals for the month end adjustments Preparing month end statements for agencies, media owners and clients · Reconciling agency, media owner and client statements to source data · Preparing journals for month end agency, media owner and client statements
General
Plan, prioritise and communicate work load, tasks and requests from senior management · Build rapport between finance and trading team · Assist the Senior Analyst in analytical reporting, data collation and cross checking of transactions.
· Evolve functionality and improve efficiency of current processes within the role and team in general.