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Senior Finance Manager

WHO WE ARE

NCSOFT is a premiere digital entertainment company and global publisher with worldwide locations and more than 4,000 employees focused on bringing extraordinary games to life for millions of fans around the world. Established in 1997 and headquartered in Seoul, South Korea, we quickly became a key leader in online games. Best known for critically acclaimed franchises including Lineage, Aion, Guild Wars, and Blade & Soul, NCSOFT is also one of the world’s top mobile developers with Lineage 2M occupying the #1 grossing revenue slot on Google Play. Our core goal is making people in this world happier by delivering games that entertain a globally connected audience has remained the same. Our culture is innovative, creative, collaborative and impactful, and we are passionate about creating the best gaming experiences for our players.

NCSOFT West is looking to add a Senior Finance Manager with previous game industry experience to join our Bellevue location supporting our development and technology teams.  The Senior Finance Manager will help improve, build and charter the path for long-term growth within the fast-paced FP&A function. 

WHY JOIN THE FINANCE TEAM?

Make a difference.  As Finance Business partner you will work with a wide variety of teams in not only Development and Technology but also with Publishing, Operations and Corporate teams.  Collaborating with these teams you’ll position yourself to help drive business decisions that will have an impact.

Get creative.   Build and develop models that help analyze, influence and drive product decisions.  It takes a little creativity developing models that your business partners and other team members use.  Your creativity will influence and help drive decision making. 

Work independently .  While you are part of the Finance team and an integral part of NCSOFT, as the key Finance Business partner in our Bellevue, WA studio you’ll work independently with little supervision. You’ll partner with local teams and work as if you ran the business.  Our team is spread across Southern CA, Northern CA, Washington and UK.

WHAT YOU’LL DO:

• Act as the primary Finance business partner for our internal development studios and shared technology organization
• Partner with designated team leads to build budgets / forecasts, review monthly progress, and identify risks & opportunities to the business
• Drive improvements to the forecast & reporting process to increase accuracy and efficiency
• Support roll-out of new Finance / Accounting systems (e.g. financial planning & reporting, expense report management), including participation in requirements gathering, user acceptance testing, local deployment and relevant training
• Produce high impact presentations for business partners, CFO and executive team
• Perform other ad-hoc analysis as needed

WHAT YOU’LL NEED TO BE SUCCESSFUL?

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting or Economics
• 8+ years of related financial experience in gaming, entertainment, digital media and/or other consumer facing industries
• Extensive experience with budgeting, forecasting, reporting and analysis, with demonstrated ability to partner effectively with senior business leaders
• Strong analytical and technical skills, including accounting concepts and systems expertise
• Excellent oral/written communication and interpersonal skills
• Passion for data integrity, process definition, and organizational alignment
• Self-motivated, demonstrates initiative, flexibility, teamwork, perseverance, and ability to manage multiple and sometimes competing priorities in a rapidly changing environment
• Expert in Microsoft Excel

PLUSES:

• MBA or advanced degree
• CPA certification
• Passion for games