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Senior Finance Director – Marketing, Commercial, Positive Play Group, Corporate Functions & WW Customer Experience

The CFO organization comprises a broad group of finance disciplines, with the common goal of partnering with business teams delivering strategies and providing our players with amazing experiences. Our finance teams assist the business in achieving profitable creativity by proving financial insight, reporting and guidance.

We use progressive tools to analyze and visualize data, telling the story of financial drivers, performance, risks and opportunities. We value attributes like collaboration and learning. We celebrate diversity and inclusion by creating a place where you can come to work and be yourself.

Role Overview:

Our Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) team provides strategic and financial partnership to EA’s Leadership team. We achieve this through engaging with our partners to understand our broad strategy, analyzing data, and delivering insights to guide EA’s performance.

This Senior Finance Director (FP&A) will lead business support for our Marketing, Positive Play, Corporate Functions, Worldwide Customer Experience (WWCE) and Music teams. Our Marketing teams include Relationship Marketing (Media & Community), Creative (Strategy and Content Production), Marketing and Consumer Insights, Brand, and Global Communications. Supported by a global team of 25, you will report to the Vice President of Finance, Real Estate and Physical Security.

What You’ll Do:

• Business Partnering
• You will partner closely with the Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) and leadership teams for HR, Legal, Finance, WWCE and team to improve business and finance outcomes through the allocation of resources and data-driven insights
• Demonstrate professional maturity to challenge business partners’ views and decisions and understand the impact across the company
• Influence senior leaders on significant matters. Manage conflicts, influence, persuade and negotiate
• Major Functions & Related Activities
• Lead all finance related activities including planning, forecasting, variance analysis and management reporting and insights
• Bring regular financial visibility to performance, risks & opportunities (Profitability, Spend, Cost-per-View, Marketing Equivalent Value)
• Review, approval and oversight of licensing/sponsorship contracts and their commitments
• Anticipate risks and partner with the business to identify trade-offs and mitigation plans
• Direct operating expense target setting process and partner with the business to operationalize targets
• Collaborate with finance partners (e.g. Corporate FP&A, Commercial FP&A, Studios) to ensure holistic and accurate financial overview for consolidated marketing and commercial view, Corporate Functions and WWCE
• Develop and maintain an organization focused on value creation and maintaining the highest standards of financial control.
• Lead a team
• Set a clear team vision and objectives; then hold each team member accountable
• Train, coach, motivate and challenge team members in their development and career path
• Lead and foster a culture of inclusion where diversity is celebrated
• Resource management: identify gaps and proposed solutions
• Reinforce the value of collaboration to achieve an objective
• Implement best practices, processes and standards

Who You Are:

• Experience leading, motivating, and coaching a global team
• Able to manage through ambiguity with a bias for solutions and action
• Ability to handle multiple and competing priorities, meet tight deadlines, and to thrive in a fast-paced environment with high degree of change
• Able to work collaboratively, within the group across teams/functions as an expert and partner

Preferred Experience and Technical Skills

• Bachelor’s degree required
• At least 12 years of related financial experience
• Extensive experience with P&L management, budgeting, forecasting, reporting and analysis
• Proficiency in Accounting and general GAAP knowledge
• Excellent MS Excel and PowerPoint expertise required, knowledge in Hyperion Essbase and Oracle preferred