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Senior Financial Analyst - FP&A (Americas Publishing)
4 years ago
Senior Financial Analyst - FP&A (Americas Publishing)
ENTERTAINING IS OUR PASSION
We’re EA—the world’s leading video game publisher. You’re probably familiar with many of our titles—Madden, FIFA, The Sims, Apex Legends, Battlefield, Need for Speed, and Star Wars, to name but a few. We entertain millions of people across the globe with the most amazing and immersive interactive software in the industry. But making games is not easy. That’s why we employ the most creative, passionate people in the industry.
Role Overview:
Our Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) team plays an essential role in providing strategic partnership to leaders across EA. We achieve this through engaging with our partners to understand our broad strategy, analyzing data, and delivering insights to help guide EA’s our performance.
The APO Senior Financial Analyst role is based in Redwood City, California, supporting Americas Publishing Organization (APO). The SFA will be directly responsible for finance support (budget, forecasts, reporting, and other financial modeling) on retail and digital revenue and margin, revenue reductions and reserves, and royalties in the U.S. and Canada. To provide these responsibilities, the SFA will partner with many cross departments including APO partners, Accounting, and Corporate FP&A. You will report to the APO & Mobile Sr. Finance Manager based in Redwood City.
What You’ll Do:
- Business Partnering
- Build relationships with partners and actively collaborate to work towards meeting financial and our goals
- Prepare, hold, and present business reviews for leaders focused on the story (not just data) with clear insights and relevant presentation material
- Drive results by partnering on business-related projects such as modeling business scenarios and tracking performance metrics
- Financial Close, Forecasting, Reporting and Analysis
- Build the full game revenue forecast and provide analysis to highlight variance drivers and identify opportunities to mitigate risk / improve performance
- Provide deep financial analysis focused on a variety of areas such as optimizing revenue and/or profitability and evaluating ROI of promotions
- Partner with the Accounting group to manage Close deliverables, timelines, process and reporting
- Design and implement reporting tools
- Promote FP&A Excellence
- Identify and lead programs to continuously improve, standardize and automate forecasting and reporting tools and processes
- Challenge status quo and provide alternative solutions
Who You Are:
- ,Ability to handle multiple and competing priorities, meet tight deadlines, and to thrive in a fast-paced environment with high degree of change
- Ability to work with ambiguity and independence
- A team player able to work collaboratively, within the group across departments/functions as an expert and partner
Preferred Experience and Technical Skills
- Bachelor’s degree required; MBA or CPA a plus
- Minimum 4 years of related financial experience, revenue knowledge a plus
- 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, Tableau and Oracle preferred
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