Interim Director of FP&A

Our Client, a well-capitalized global entertainment company in an aggressive growth phase, is seeking an Interim Director, FP&A to build out its U.S. financial planning and analysis function.

Location: Century City, Los Angeles (Onsite 3 days/week)

Duration: 3 months to start, with potential to convert to a permanent role

Start Date: ASAP

About the Role

The U.S. finance team is currently lean and accounting-focused. As the company executes a major growth strategy, leadership needs to build a strong FP&A function from the ground up. This is a builder role, not a maintainer role, reporting directly to the CFO in a lean, high-ownership environment.

What You'll Do

• Build and own the FP&A function for the U.S. operation, starting with foundational deliverables (13-week cash flow forecast, operating model) before expanding into commercial deal management and M&A support
• Operationalize the company's Long-Range Plan and strategic plan, translating high-level targets into a detailed U.S. operating layer with assumptions, drivers, and accountability metrics
• Develop and maintain commercial underwriting models for the company's core business investments, covering deal economics, return profiles, and recoupment dynamics as the company scales
• Partner directly with the CFO on M&A financial analysis and modeling across an active acquisition pipeline, working from existing templates and building deal-specific models as needed
• Build the 13-week cash flow forecast from the ground up and establish it as an ongoing, repeatable process
• Extract, structure, and model data across Excel and a set of evolving internal systems — sourcing and cleaning data independently rather than working from pre-packaged reports
• Work closely with the CFO and senior leadership in a lean, high-ownership environment requiring broad scope, initiative, and adaptability from day one

Required Qualifications

• Entertainment industry background — including film/TV/streaming, media, events, or an adjacent commercial entertainment business model
• Broad, well-rounded FP&A skill set with comfort across operating models, commercial deal analysis, and M&A financial modeling simultaneously
• Strong financial modeling capabilities, including the ability to build models from scratch rather than maintain existing ones
• Comfort with data querying and bringing raw data to model-ready stage independently
• Resourceful and self-directed — comfortable operating without established playbooks or significant hand-holding, in an environment where systems and infrastructure are still evolving

Preferred Qualifications

• M&A financial analysis experience, including direct work on deal modeling and pipeline analysis
• Private equity or investment banking background
• Experience with Microsoft Business Central and/or NetSuite
• Data querying skills (SQL or similar)