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Senior Financial Analyst

Who We Are:

2K has been a major console and PC game developer and publisher for several console generations and is known for bringing amazing IP to the market, including some of today’s most well-known and critically acclaimed franchises like: NBA 2K, WWE 2K, Mafia, Bioshock, Borderlands, XCOM and Sid Meier’s Civilization.

What We Need:

As a Sr Finance Analyst, you will serve as a key interface between Finance and the rest of the business. This is a highly visible role where you will be providing financial and operational analyses and reporting to key stakeholders that will influence business decisions. This is a unique opportunity to become the FP&A lead in supporting executives and to take ownership of crucial and operational processes for assigned business areas.

Job Responsibilities Will Include:

• Partner with the business team to manage annual operating budgets, track results, expenses, headcounts, and provide visibility to divisional and finance leadership; maintain in-depth a full P&L forecasting and reporting, track actuals and predict future financial performance for your assigned business areas (Internal studios and Publishing)
• Prepare external spend forecast/estimates as relate to production expense, product development and general administrative expenses in support of all planning cycles: annual budget, forecasts, and monthly planning
• Gather production expense planning assumptions and timing updates in coordination and consolidation with various business partners, internal finance teams, legal and operations
• Support business partners and finance management in development of what-if scenarios planning as requested
• Provide timely, relevant and accurate monthly reporting & analysis of results against historical, budgeted and forecast data for assigned business areas to facilitate and influence decision-making, including operating expenses, headcount forecasts and development costs.
• Distilling large amounts of data into actionable insights, leveraging financial and operational database systems
• Conduct ad hoc analysis and provide an insightful use of financial analysis techniques, tools, concepts and models, for business partners to support decision making
• Research and resolve Business Unit(s) inquiries for assigned functional/business areas.
• Identify areas for and implement process improvement and automation
• Assist in month-end closing working in partnership with centralized accounting teams, prepare and advise month end accruals, recommend reclassification of expense as needed resulting from detailed transactional analyses against various plans
• Manage forecast data loads and validation to ensure plan data accuracy
• Responsible for Oracle ERP system maintenance, research and resolve systematic issues related to inventory and cost of sales, development headcount planning, production/product development external costs as related to assigned P&L functional/business areas
• Develop a proficiency in and a business understanding of all of 2K’s financial systems and data sources and an understanding and working knowledge of 2K financial processes, accounting principles and internal controls

Who We Think Will Be A Great Fit:

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance or a Business related field
• Minimum of 4-6 years of FP&A or relevant experience
• Must have extremely strong MS Excel skills
• Strong experience with planning systems (Hyperion/Essbase preferred)
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail with flexibility to work across different tasks
• Strong work ethic with a positive, can-do attitude
• Demonstrated financial or analytical experience with strong forecasting, budgeting, and variance analysis acumen
• Exceptional command of database tools and IT systems, with the ability to extract meaningful conclusions from large quantities of data