• Build, maintain, and enhance financial models supporting core planning cycles, including annual budget, rolling forecast, capital investments, and long-range planning. • Deliver clear variance analysis and explain financial results, risks, and opportunities in a concise, decision-oriented manner. • Analyze labor productivity and staffing trends, identifying opportunities to improve efficiency and resource allocation. • Build, maintain, and deliver labor plans, including headcount planning, FTE allocation, and labor cost forecasting. • Own and oversee all studio operating expense (OpEx) planning, budgeting, forecasting, and performance management. • Lead studio-level cost control efforts, identifying risks and opportunities across controllable and non-controllable expense categories. • Oversee capital planning for studios, including development of annual capital budgets, ROI analysis, project prioritization, and ongoing tracking of capital spend. • Partner cross-functionally with Operations, Real Estate, and Facilities to evaluate capital investments, refresh cycles, and new studio builds or relocations. • Provide governance and oversight to ensure disciplined spend management across both operating and capital expenditures. • Partner with the VP Finance and FP&A Manager to support cross-functional initiatives such as growth planning, pricing decisions, and cost optimization. • Develop ad hoc analyses and business cases to inform executive decision-making. • Ensure data accuracy, consistency, and integrity across financial models, reports, and dashboards. • Prepare executive-ready presentations and materials that translate data into insights. • Contribute to continuous improvement of FP&A processes, tools, and analytical frameworks.