Data Analyst, Corporate Strategy, Planning & Analysis

Netflix is the world's leading streaming entertainment service with 223 million paid memberships in over 190 countries enjoying TV series, documentaries, and feature films across a wide variety of genres and languages. Members can watch as much as they want, anytime, anywhere, on any internet-connected screen. 
It’s an amazing time to join Netflix as we continue shaping the future of global entertainment. As Netflix expands globally, we look for the best and brightest talent to scale with and contribute to our growth. That’s where you come in.
We are seeking a highly quantitative, driven, and intellectually curious data analyst to join the Corporate SP&A team. The Corporate SP&A team at Netflix is responsible for company-wide financial planning, forecasting, and strategic analysis. We derive a significant competitive advantage from the highly analytical approach we take to managing the company, and the Corporate SP&A team plays a key role in this area. Senior leadership depends heavily on our SP&A groups to accurately model and forecast the business as well as to lead the strategic analysis that is used to inform important business decisions.
The analyst will serve as a data-guru for the Corporate SP&A team, supporting a wide range of data and analysis requests related to Netflix’s operating expenses and headcount growth. A successful candidate will be naturally data curious, excited about creating sustainable reporting, and not afraid to get in the weeds to understand and improve our financial and headcount forecast modeling/methodologies. 
Ideal candidates enjoy problem-solving, building solutions, delivering actionable and data-driven insights, and working in a fast-paced, dynamic environment. The position is based in our Los Gatos office and will report to our Manager, Corporate SP&A - Data & Systems. 

Responsibilities

• Performing data analysis and developing insightful dashboards, memos & presentations that summarize data
• Collaborating with our Financial Technology team to improve our financial and headcount forecasting methodologies/models
• Developing tools and analysis to support decision-making related to how fast we should be growing our expenses and our investment in our internal workforce across all departments and geographies
• Creating and maintaining data documentation both for an internal, technical audience and for partner user teams
• Acting as the bridge between business teams and technical teams to gather tooling and data requirements

Qualifications

• 3 - 5 years of experience in a highly analytical environment (e.g. management consulting, corporate analytics, strategy and operations, or other roles requiring a blend of analytical, strategic, and cross-functional work)
• Hands-on experience with SQL
• Experience working with Business Insights tools like Tableau
• Expertise with spreadsheet-based tools like Google Sheets or Excel
• Strong analytical skills and an ability to synthesize information across a broad ecosystem to diagnose problems and devise solutions
• Comfortable with ambiguity; able to thrive with minimal oversight and process, while keeping leadership informed on progress against deadlines
• An ability to coordinate cross-functional projects and/or prior project management experience.
• Bachelor’s Degree preferably in Math, Statistics, Economics, Computer Science, Engineering, or other quantitative field

Nice to haves

• Previous experience working with financial and/or headcount related data
• Understanding of financial systems and processes, including Workday, Anaplan, Essbase

At Netflix, we carefully consider a wide range of compensation factors to determine your personal top of market. We rely on market indicators to determine compensation and consider your specific job family, background, skills, and experience to get it right. These considerations can cause your compensation to vary and will also be dependent on your location. 
The overall market range for roles in this area of Netflix is typically $60,000 - $385,000.
This market range is based on total compensation (vs. only base salary), which is in line with our compensation philosophy. Netflix is a unique culture and environment. Learn more here.