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Job Title: Senior Director, Finance

Department: Blizzard Finance

Location: Irvine, CA

As the Finance Lead, this individual will serve as a key leader on a Franchise and/or FP&A team, guiding the business and driving value creation while addressing a broad range of financial and operational topics for the organization. The individual will be highly adept at leading multiple collaborators, while partnering closely with the other members of the Finance/ Franchise Leadership team. The role is accountable for developing financial plans with leadership agreement and ensuring successful execution against business objectives. The individual will drive growth initiatives and establish meticulous investment team, while being mindful of the needs of our players and our organization.

Your Mission

• 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.
• Provide leadership and direction to ensure the development of strategies and plans to significantly 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.
• Build a strong, effective team. Purposefully develop and mentor internal talent to meet the organization’s current and future needs. Sustain a healthy and inclusive team culture.

This role is anticipated to be a hybrid work position, with some work on-site and some work-from-home. The home studio for this role is Irvine, CA

What you bring to the table

The Finance Senior Director must have the shown ability to partner with leaders to deliver on committed business targets; consistently contribute to the leadership process and business operations; and maintain the highest standards in financial management.

The successful candidate will have the validated ability to have positively influenced operating results at current and previous companies based on a combination of factors including development and monitoring of key, highly relevant performance metrics and dashboards; partnering with other senior leaders to meet their objectives; and optimally leading resource and investment planning.

Additionally, the ideal candidate will possess a passion for players, a deep competency in strategic finance and is a capable leader who excels at building talent and driving collaboration across all aspects of the organization.

Minimum Requirements

• Experienced financial leader with at least 10 years of dynamic leadership positions in a diverse set of business roles within finance.
• 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. Experience in evolving financial tools and technologies to meet the ongoing flexible needs of a fast-moving and evolving industry.
• Validated results of making strong data-driven business decisions that improve return on investment, allocating resources or capital, evaluating the market potential of creative products. Strong examples of successful financial and business strategies and initiatives personally implemented or through teams, demonstrating revenue growth, cost control, margin expansion, investment management etc.
• 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.
• The experience and maturity to lead organizations through growth. Communicating a passion for the role and for the business by operating at a high level of intensity and acting with a sense of urgency without sacrificing excellence.
• Proven track record of identifying and prioritizing vital improvements in organizations, personnel, processes and systems, developing achievable plans and successfully completing those plans including effectively leading cost and resource prioritization within a matrixed, shared-resource organization.
• Validated 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. Successfully able to influence without authority and involve all vital levels of leadership in making the appropriate decisions. 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 teamwork.

Education

Undergraduate degree or equivalent experience is required.

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.

Your Platform

Best known for iconic video game universes including Warcraft®, Overwatch®, Diablo®, and StarCraft®, Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. (www.blizzard.com), a division of Activision Blizzard, which was acquired by Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), is a best-in-class developer and publisher of entertainment experiences. Blizzard Entertainment has created some of the industry’s most critically acclaimed and genre-defining games over the last 30 years, with a track record that includes multiple Game of the Year awards. Blizzard Entertainment engages tens of millions of players around the world with titles available on PC via Battle.net®, Xbox, PlayStation, Nintendo Switch, iOS, and Android.

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 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 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.

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/ .