Associate Director, Finance

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Blizzard Entertainment is seeking a strategic and experienced Associate Director, Finance to serve as a key leader on Franchise and/or FP&A team, guiding the business and driving value creation, while addressing broad range of financial and operational topics. In addition, this role is accountable for developing financial plans with leadership agreement and ensuring successful execution against business objectives, while driving growth initiatives and establishing meticulous investment discipline.

The ideal candidate is an independent, self-motivated leader with a consistent record of proactively contributing to business development initiatives, assessing market opportunities, identifying process efficiencies, anticipating business needs, and implementing solutions across the organization. The position will directly report to the Senior Finance Director

Responsibilities:

• Partner closely with the key leaders at Blizzard to drive sustainable growth and profitability, taking ownership for business performance.
• Establish appropriate metrics to measure and empower business performance with a focus on continuous improvement.
• Lead and drive the performance of the business by bringing a premier analytical skill and financial perspective to all critical decisions. Challenge the status quo and actively participate in helping drive the business to evolve its thinking and actions as it continues to evolve and mature.
• Provide leadership and direction to ensure the development of strategies and plans to substantially move the business forward. Thoughtfully enable strategic investments to fuel profitable growth.
• Lead and inspire change in the organization by analyzing, articulating and driving improvements to strategies, business plans, processes, investments, and financial team.
• Lead long range planning, annual operating plan / budgeting, forecasts, monthly and quarterly business reviews. Work closely with headquarters to ensure proper financial controls, reporting, processes, and visibility.
• Champion Blizzard values from within as our financial steward.

Player Profile:

• A minimum of 7 years of experience in Finance
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in finance, Accounting, or other related areas
• Operationally oriented, deeply “hands-on” and a true business partner and collaborator. Shown success at providing data-driven insights to help the business make the right decisions.
• Validated results of making strong data-driven business decisions that increase return on investment, allocating resources or capital, evaluating the market potential of creative products.
• Ability to view the business from a broader perspective, integrating finance and business issues to develop insight and solutions that contribute to a senior management team. Understanding key operational business drivers with experience designing cross-functional systems in partnership with other department heads to support company growth objectives. Hands on experience scrutinizing operations and implementing internal controls.
• Proven track record to identify and prioritize vital improvements in organizations, personnel, processes and systems, developing achievable plans and optimally completing those plans including effectively leading cost and resource prioritization within a matrixed, shared-resource organization.
• Proven competency in consumer market revenue planning, especially subscription and/or micro-transaction models.
• Exceptional collaborator and communicator who has a shown success rate in influencing creative and operational leadership. Hands-on, ambitious style, as well as a strong bias for action and results: the ability to work effectively in a highly innovative, unstructured environment; collaborative and without ego.
• Personally sets a standard for their team and the organization focused on integrity, results, work ethic, transparency, and partnership.
• High standards of accuracy and precision

Pluses:

• Knowledge of the gaming industry
• Accounting experience with Hyperion and Oracle

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 dedicated people who share our vision. If that sounds like you, join us.

The video game 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 advised 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/ .