Senior Investment Analyst - Film Funds

Overview

Parrot Analytics

Senior Investment Analyst

• to lead the development of financial models used to evaluate film and television projects.
• This role sits at the intersection of entertainment economics, investment analysis, and data science, translating audience demand signals, project budgets, and distribution assumptions into structured financial forecasts and investment insights.
• The successful candidate will play a key role in helping investors understand the risk and return profile of content investments before capital is committed.
• Build Investment Models for Film & Television Projects
• Develop sophisticated financial models that evaluate the commercial performance of film and television projects across multiple distribution windows.
• Models will incorporate production budgets and cost structures, financing structures and investor positions, distribution revenue streams across global markets and investor return scenarios and capital recovery timelines.
• Revenue modelling will consider multiple distribution pathways including theatrical, SVOD, AVOD, FAST, Pay TV, and international licensing.
• Leverage Parrot Analytics global dataset on audience demand and content valuation to inform revenue assumptions within financial models.
• Develop structured approaches to translating audience demand signals and valuation into realistic commercial scenarios, benchmarking projects against comparable titles across genres, markets, and platforms.

Quantify Investment Risk

• Evaluate projects through structured scenario modelling that assesses downside risk and capital exposure, break-even performance thresholds and investor return scenarios under different market conditions
• Conduct sensitivity analysis across key variables including budget changes, distribution outcomes, and shifts in audience demand.

Support Investment Decision-Making

• Produce financial analyses used by funds, studios, and investors evaluating content opportunities.
• Translate complex financial models into clear insights that help decision-makers understand the economic implications of project budgets, distribution strategies, and market positioning.

Develop Industry-Leading Modelling Frameworks

• Help design the financial modelling frameworks used to evaluate film and television investments using Parrot Analytics data.
• The goal is to build repeatable analytical tools that allow projects to be evaluated with institutional investment discipline, enabling more structured decision-making across the industry.
• Your experience
• film or television investment funds
• studio finance or content strategy teams
• media-focused investment banking or private equity
• entertainment strategy consulting
• corporate finance roles within media or technology companies
• Direct experience working with film finance structures, production budgets, or distribution economics is required.
• The skills you bring
• Advanced financial modelling - Ability to build complex Excel models from scratch incorporating scenario analysis, sensitivity modelling, and structured investment return frameworks.
• Investment analysis mindset - Strong ability to evaluate opportunities through structured risk and return analysis.
• Data-driven thinking - Comfortable integrating external datasets and quantitative signals into financial forecasts and commercial assumptions.
• Intellectual curiosity - A genuine interest in understanding how film and television projects generate economic value.
• Communication - Ability to translate complex financial analysis into clear insights for non-technical decision-makers.
• Ideally fluent in Arabic to service regional clients.