Financial Analyst for Plus and FanTech

Business Unit Plus and FanTech consists of the services Yandex Afisha, Kinopoisk, Music, Books, and the Yandex Plus subscription. We are looking for a Financial Analyst.

What tasks await you

Cash position assessment and payment control You will be responsible for weekly preparing a cash position report-statement based on actual receipts and expenditures for the past week, disclosing cash balances on accounts by legal entities of the business unit, collecting planned payments and receipts for the next week from FanTech service managers, and daily monitoring all payments based on the cash position statement.

Forecasting and maintaining cash plan for video content You will be responsible for preparing a cash plan for video content expenses in Russia, CIS, and MENA countries together with the licensing team, weekly updating data on future and actual payments based on purchase orders (POs) and deals planned to be concluded (kpdeals) across all management analytics dimensions.

Regular tasks You will need to perform reconciliations of accruals and receipts for all intra-group schemes (Plus loyalty program, Engagement revenue, RevShare, Promocodes, and others); in case of discrepancies or changes, independently identify the causes and resolve them together with related teams; update the register of intra-group contracts with details on payment deadlines and contract essence, with links to tickets and analytics.

We expect you

• Have a higher education in economics or finance
• Have worked in finance in the Cash Flow (CF) area for at least two years, know the principles of cash flow accounting using direct and indirect methods
• Have advanced Excel skills: know pivot tables, complex formulas
• Think analytically, understand financial analysis, can work with large data sets
• Are communicative, able to build effective dialogue with colleagues within the team and in related departments
• Are proactive, able to work independently, attentive to details, while seeing the big picture

Will be a plus

• Have worked with Oracle E-Business Suite (OEBS), BI platforms
• Participated in accounting automation projects