The posting
About Crunchyroll
Founded by fans, Crunchyroll delivers the art and culture of anime to a passionate community. We super-serve over 100 million anime and manga fans across 200+ countries and territories, and help them connect with the stories and characters they crave. Whether that experience is online or in-person, streaming video, theatrical, games, merchandise, events and more, it’s powered by the anime content we all love.
Join our team, and help us shape the future of anime!
About the role
Crunchyroll is seeking a Senior Financial Analyst, Financial Planning & Analysis, to support its global Merchandise lines of business. Reporting to the Director, FP&A, this role will serve as a key finance partner to business leaders across Consumer Products, Home Entertainment, Collectibles and E-commerce.
The Senior Financial Analyst will support the full FP&A cycle, including budgeting, forecasting, monthly reporting, performance analysis, and long-range planning. The role will help business owners understand financial performance, identify risks and opportunities, and make informed decisions regarding revenue growth, product investment, inventory, profitability, and resource allocation.
The ideal candidate combines strong financial analysis and modeling capabilities with commercial curiosity and the ability to operate across licensing, retail, physical products, and direct-to-consumer business models. Experience with consumer products, entertainment, retail, or e-commerce would be particularly valuable.
We are considering applicants for the location of Los Angeles.
A day in the life of our FP&A Senior Analyst:
You will handle the monthly analysis of actual business performance, working with accounting and business teams to consolidate and interpret financial information. With your excellent interpersonal skills, you will need to build strong relationships across all levels of the company. You will need to produce ad hoc analysis, and help drive efficiency and improvement across Finance and Accounting.
- Lead and coordinate budgets, forecasts, and long-range plans for the Merchandise lines of business.
- Build and maintain financial models covering revenue, gross profit, operating expenses, and inventory.
- Develop financial assumptions in partnership with business owners, including unit volumes, pricing, royalty rates, product costs, distribution costs, returns, markdowns, and product release timing.
- Support scenario planning and sensitivity analysis for new product launches, licensing arrangements, retail programs, and strategic investments.
- Ensure forecasts appropriately reflect product seasonality, release schedules, customer ordering patterns, and inventory lead times.
- Prepare monthly and quarterly reporting packages covering actual performance against budget, forecast, and prior year.
- Produce clear variance analysis across revenue, gross profit, operating expenses, inventory, and contribution margin.
- Work closely with Accounting to support accurate and timely monthly and quarterly closes.
- Coordinate with Sony Pictures finance, sales, operations, and distribution stakeholders where responsibilities are shared across the companies.
- Identify opportunities to simplify, automate, and improve forecasting, reporting, and performance management processes.
About You
As our FP&A Senior Analyst you will own the delivery of accurate, timely and insightful performance analysis of Crunchyroll’s Merchandise portfolio. You will be instrumental in putting together the global picture and implementing best practice, working closely with stakeholders across multiple global teams to understand the context behind the numbers and embed consistent reporting and process.
- 5+ years of experience in highly analytical environments (e.g. FP&A, Accounting, Consumer Products)
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business Administration, or a related field.
- Experience with FP&A processes, including budgeting, forecasting, monthly reporting, variance analysis, and financial modeling.
- Experience analyzing revenue, gross margin, operating expenses, and business performance drivers.
- Experience within consumer products, intellectual property licensing, entertainment, media, retail, physical products, or e-commerce.
- Ability to interpret financial results and translate them into clear commercial insights.
- Advanced financial modeling skills, ideally with Microsoft Excel and Google Sheets
- Strong AI tool acumen and ability to drive business insight, analysis and modeling
- Experience using NetSuite, Adaptive, Board, or other enterprise software.
Why you will love working at Crunchyroll
In addition to getting to work with fun, passionate and inspired colleagues, you will also enjoy the following benefits and perks:
- Receive a great compensation package including salary plus performance bonus earning potential, paid annually.
- Flexible time off policies allowing you to take the time you need to be your whole self.
- Generous medical, dental, vision, STD, LTD, and life insurance
- Health Saving Account HSA program
- Health care and dependent care FSA
- 401(k) plan, with employer match
- Employer paid commuter benefit
- Support program for new parents
- Pet insurance
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The Pay Range for this position is listed. Actual pay will vary based on factors including, but not limited to location, experience, and performance. The range listed is just one component of Crunchyroll’s Total Rewards offerings for employees. Other rewards may include performance bonuses, employer matched retirement savings, time-off programs, and progressive health benefits and perks.
Pay Transparency - Los Angeles, CA
$94,000—$117,000 USD
About our Values
We want to be everything for someone rather than something for everyone and we do this by living and modeling our values in all that we do. We value
- Courage. We believe that when we overcome fear, we enable our best selves.
- Curiosity. We are curious, which is the gateway to empathy, inclusion, and understanding.
- Kaizen. We have a growth mindset committed to constant forward progress.
- Service. We serve our community with humility, enabling joy and belonging for others.
Our commitment to diversity and inclusion
Our mission of helping people belong reflects our commitment to diversity & inclusion. It's just the way we do business.
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at Crunchyroll. Pursuant to applicable law, we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
Crunchyroll, LLC is an independently operated joint venture between US-based Sony Pictures Entertainment, and Japan's Aniplex, a subsidiary of Sony Music Entertainment (Japan) Inc., both subsidiaries of Tokyo-based Sony Group Corporation.
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