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Finance Manager, Platform Strategy & Partnerships

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Your Mission

The Platform Partnerships and Strategy function oversees a significant annual P+L and is tasked with leveraging Activision Blizzard’s (A|B) content, vision and scale to maximize value creation through platform partnerships and other commercial opportunities.

In this role, you will provide financial insights on the performance of A|B content across all major platforms and develop fiscal year forecasts and maintain long range financial plans across the enterprise specific to ATVI Publishing and Blizzard. You will work with senior leaders across Finance, Marketing, Sales, and Development Studios to ensure partnership agreement terms are met and tracked accurately for A|B and our partners.

The ideal candidate will have a strong financial background, but drive to grow and influence strategic decision making. In this role, you’ll have unique exposure across key stakeholders within the various business verticals, gather metrics and data to help inform opportunities, and drive operational excellence to deliver incremental value to A|B via external partners such as Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo.

Role Specifics

Planning and Reporting:

• Work with cross functional stakeholders to develop platform specific financials (P&L’s and partnership value tracking)
• Partner with Finance/Accounting to ensure key platform specific agreement terms/inputs are accurately planned and realized for Corporate Forecast and Quarter End Close
• Develop and maintain platform Dashboard/Reporting packages that provide key data trends and insights (e.g. HW projections, Games Sales, User Base Stats, KPI tracking, etc.) and assist Sr. Director of Platform Partnerships with regular business updates to ATVI leadership teams

Partnership Execution and Governance

• Drive alignment with internal stakeholders and external platform partners via regular check-ins/milestones to help ensure joint priorities are tracked and met
• Help drive agenda items, capture major takeaways and work with all stakeholders to monitor progress/achievement of next steps
• Track, analyze and communicate key partnership metrics (KPI’s) to highlight key learnings and trends across the business

Project Management:

• Act as chief financial custodian of platform agreements and maintain financial repository of all terms and agreements with platform holders
• Maintain tools/databases to track platform level KPI’s and work with data warehouse teams to create automated reports to be shared with stakeholders
• Other Ad-hoc projects as needed

Player Profile

• Minimum 3-5 years in Finance
• Strong financial analysis skills and experience in building and analyzing P+L reports and ability to understand complex commercial terms
• Ability to work and engage cross-functionally and build strong relationships with internal and external senior level partners – excellent communication skills both written and verbal and great interpersonal skills both over the phone and face to face
• Strong team player with “can do attitude” who can thrive under the pressure of meeting tight deadlines while handling multiple business priorities simultaneously
• Excellent business and financial acumen and ability to work with large data sets
• Strong attention to detail and accuracy
• Highly proficient in Excel and PowerPoint
• Video game industry or New Media experience highly desirable