Associate Data Engineer, Activision Blizzard Financial Reporting

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Job Title: Associate Data Engineer, Activision Blizzard Revenue Reporting

Department: Accounting / Finance

Location: Remote

Your Mission

Blizzard is looking for an Associate Data Engineer to join our revenue reporting team. This engineer will work under the guidance of senior data engineers on monthly global revenue close and reconciliation reporting tasks, as well as process improvement, automation, building up the knowledge base, and ad hoc data requests. The ideal candidate has a strong understanding of ETL process development with very large transactional financial data sets. The team is primarily responsible to maintain data integrity for accounting and financial reporting purposes and reports to the controllership group.

This role is anticipated to be a hybrid work position, with some work on-site and some work-from-home. The potential home studio for this role is Irvine, CA. However, we understand each person’s circumstances may be unique and will work with you to explore other possible options, including remote work arrangements.

Responsibilities include (but are not limited to) the following:

• Prepare, run, and supervise the systems and processes used in the monthly global revenue close process.
• Compile, transform, and distribute data from various sources to local and international teams.
• Build up and maintain knowledge base in Confluence by interacting with teams like Battle.net, Accounting, Tax, and Internal Audit.
• Maintain change logs, review QA documentation, submit and verify monthly code Change Requests.
• Gather data to assist internal and external auditors with Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) audit requests.
• Maintain, streamline, and improve existing processes.
• Participation in ad hoc projects as needed.

Player Profile

• 2+ years of experience in ETL development, process design, and administration.
• 2+ years of experience working with relational databases (preferably Oracle.)
• 2+ years of experience working with object-oriented programming languages (preferably Python.)
• Familiarity with enterprise ETL tools.
• Technical understanding of data modeling, design, architecture principles, and techniques
• Strong verbal and written communication skills to interpret and present data to various audiences with non-IT/programming backgrounds
• Champion Blizzard’s core values, especially “Commit to Quality”

We love hearing from anyone who is enthusiastic about changing the games industry. Not sure you meet all qualifications? Let us decide! Research shows that women and members of other under-represented groups tend to not apply to jobs when they think they may not meet every qualification, when, in fact, they often do! We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment and strongly encourage you to apply.

We are committed to working with and providing reasonable assistance to individuals with physical and mental disabilities. If you are a disabled individual requiring an accommodation to apply for an open position, please email your request to accommodationrequests@activisionblizzard.com. General employment questions cannot be accepted or processed here. Thank you for your interest.

Our World

At Blizzard Entertainment, we pour our hearts and souls into everything we create. Best known for iconic video game universes including Warcraft, Overwatch, Diablo, and StarCraft, we’ve been creating genre-defining games for millions of players around the world for more than 30 years. We’re on a quest: bring our dreams to life and craft the most epic entertainment experiences…ever. Hard work, iteration and polish go into the Blizzard “secret recipe,” but the most important ingredients come from talented people who share our vision. If that sounds like you, join us.

The videogame industry and therefore our business is fast-paced and will continue to evolve. As such, the duties and responsibilities of this role may be changed as directed by the Company at any time to promote and support our business and relationships with industry partners.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status, among other characteristics.

Rewards

We provide a suite of benefits that promote physical, emotional and financial well-being for ‘Every World’ - we’ve got our employees covered! Subject to eligibility requirements, the Company offers comprehensive benefits including:

• Medical, dental, vision, health savings account or health reimbursement account, healthcare spending accounts, dependent care spending accounts, life and AD&D insurance, disability insurance;
• 401(k) with Company match, tuition reimbursement, charitable donation matching;
• Paid holidays and vacation, paid sick time, floating holidays, compassion and bereavement leaves, parental leave;
• Mental health & wellbeing programs, fitness programs, free and discounted games, and a variety of other voluntary benefit programs like supplemental life & disability, legal service, ID protection, rental insurance, and others;
• If the Company requires that you move geographic locations for the job, then you may also be eligible for relocation assistance.

Eligibility to participate in these benefits may vary for part time and temporary full-time employees and interns with the Company. You can learn more by visiting https://www.benefitsforeveryworld.com/ .