Senior Financial Analyst - Marketing FP&A
- 6 Month Contract (please apply with your CV in English)
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Role Overview:
Our Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) team plays a critical role in providing strategic partnership to leaders across EA. We achieve this through effectively engaging with our partners to understand our broad strategy, analyzing data, and delivering insights to help drive EA’s current and future performance. This Senior Financial Analyst will support Marketing, specifically our Global Marketing Media team.
What You’ll Do:
· Business Partnering
o Build relationships with partners and actively collaborate to work toward a goal.
o Responsible for purchase order approvals, budgeted spend tracking, monthly close activities, and headcount management. Set control processes in place to manage spending and headcount within plan.
o Provide reporting focused on a variety of areas such as maximizing profitability or resource allocation.
o Prepare, hold, and present business reviews for leaders focused on the story (not just data) with clear insights and actionable presentation material.
o Drive results by partnering on business-related projects such as modeling business scenarios and tracking performance metrics.
· Drive FP&A Excellence
- o Identify areas for continuous improvement, standardization and automation of forecasting and reporting.
- o Challenge status quo and provide alternative solutions.
Who You Are:
· Highly motivated, passionate self-starter
· 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 and cross-functionally across business units/functions as a thought leader and partner.
Preferred Experience and Technical Skills
· Bachelor’s degree in Finance/Accounting
· Familiarity with P&L management, budgeting, forecasting, reporting and analysis.
· Familiarity with Marketing Media planning and analysis.
· Demonstrated proficiency in Accounting and general GAAP knowledge
· Excellent MS Excel and PowerPoint expertise required, familiarity with Anaplan, Power BI and Oracle is preferred.