What A Revenue Management And Analytics Manager At A Fortune 100 Entertainment Company Wishes They Had Known Before Entering The Entertainment Industry
Wing, a Manager of Revenue Management & Analytics at a Fortune 100 entertainment company, learned that "there's no right or wrong way to do a job," emphasizing the importance of creative thinking and finding optimal methods for visualizing and communicating financial data, rather than strictly adhering to pre-existing models. This approach to problem-solving has clearly been key to their success in finance roles.
Data Analysis, Communication, Problem-Solving, Creative thinking, Adaptability
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Wing Lee
Manager, Revenue Mgmt. & Analytics
Fortune 100 Entertainment Company
University of Southern California (USC), 2013
UCLA MBA, 2023
Business Management & Admin
Arts, Entertainment & Media
Finance
Honors Student, Scholarship Recipient, Pell Grant Recipient, Immigrant, Worked 20+ Hours in School, First Generation College Student
Video Highlights
1. There's no single "right" way to perform a job; be open to finding better methods and visualization techniques.
2. Finance roles often have pre-existing tools and models, but improvement is always possible; think outside the box.
3. Communicating numerical data effectively to partners is crucial; consider various visualization methods to enhance understanding.
Transcript
What have you learned about this role that you wish someone would have told you before you entered the industry?
Someone told me before I entered the entertainment industry that there's no right or wrong way to do a job. When I worked on this, I realized every role has a person that was in it before. Or maybe you're in a new role, but in finance, typically we already have a finance team.
There's no set way in doing that job, right? There could be forecast models already built. There could be things in Excel that already exist, but that does not mean that there's not a better way to do it.
So, I think going into a finance role, it's always good to think outside of the box. But it's also good to pull in different methods of visualization. How do you want to communicate numbers to your partners?
So I think the biggest thing I learned is there's no right or wrong way, and there's no cookie-cutter way either. So when you go into a role, kind of make your own way.