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Director Finance, Financial Planning & Analysis
3 years ago
Who We Are:
2K develops and publishes interactive entertainment globally for console systems, handheld gaming devices and personal computers, including smartphones and tablets. 2K is a leading publisher of today’s most popular gaming genres and most well-known for critically acclaimed game franchises like NBA 2K, WWE 2K, Bioshock, Borderlands, Evolve, XCOM and the beloved Sid Meier’s Civilization.
What We Need:
An individual to formulate the Annual Operation Budget by reviewing, analyzing, and making recommendations on budget requests for various assigned business areas under 2K Games (Studios/Publishing areas). This candidate will be a strategic thinker, highly analytical, creative, and have a demonstrated ability to effectively manage financial responsibilities and decision making in a rapidly evolving business. This role requires a self-starter with strong modeling skills, attention to detail, and ability to manage multiple projects effectively. This role also has regular interaction with senior executives, various business units, and multiple stakeholders across 2K/T2 and requires strong interpersonal and communication skills. The Manager will report to a Sr. Dir/Director Finance.
What You Will Do:
- Work with commercial business leaders to develop budgets and provide reports to help manage respective divisions or assigned business areas for continued profitable growth, prepare annual operating budgets, general administrative and capital expenditure plans
- Coordinate the annual budgeting, monthly/quarterly/weekly forecasts process, facilitate consolidated reporting and creating and communicating the annual budget timeline
- Implement and scale new budgeting and reporting technology systems
- Prepare monthly financial and operational reporting across all departments of the business: Corporate finance, internal executives, and finance leaderships
- Collaborate with the Accounting team to prepare variance to budget and other deep-dives
- Continuously take on additional responsibility to improve processes and procedures
- Regularly present insightful analyses, reports and presentations on relevant operating and financial metrics in an easy-to-understand format to senior executives to influence decision-making
- Analyze business & financial results providing insight and analysis to support the business in making strategic decisions
- Assess and evaluate financial performance of organization with regards to operational strategic goals, targets, budgets and forecasts, collaborating with senior management to set KPIs, identify opportunities, and mitigate risk.
- Communicate the approved budget changes to internal finance colleagues and business owners; partner extensively with Finance, Accounting, Sales, HR, Operations and Technology teams to drive divisional financial process
- Creating process or system to compile data from various sources & developing complete post-mortem analyses to determine areas for optimization and improvement
- Facilitate monthly monitoring and quarterly reviews of actual to budget capital expenditures, provides updated capital expenditures assumptions
- Review monthly international financial submissions from International Finance teams, follow up to resolve questions
- Coordinate and consolidate global budgets and load respective assigned budget details into financial systems
- Streamline global budget process encompassing actual and budget numbers
- Facilitate audit requests and questions with external auditors
- Assist in developing and refining processes and standards for monthly reporting
- Other projects as assigned
Who We Think Will Be a Great Fit:
- Minimum 8-10 years financial planning & analysis experience required (MBA preferred, not required)
- High proficiency with Microsoft Excel & Power Point is required
- Global consolidation experience working with International entities preferred
- Strong analytical, oral and written communication skills required
- Excellent communication skills to interface with a diverse set of stakeholders in a global environment (including Finance team members and functional leaders); ability to summarize analyses and recommendations and present to leadership.
- "Can-do" attitude with a desire to learn
- Must have the ability to organize and schedule work effectively in order to meet deadlines
- Must be proactive with strong follow through skills
- Must have discretion with handling confidential or sensitive information
- Must have the ability to multi-task in order to oversee multiple projects at once
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