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Senior Financial Analyst
1 year ago
Who We Are
Founded in 2005, 2K Games is a global video game company, publishing titles developed by some of the most influential game development studios in the world. Our studios responsible for developing 2K’s portfolio of world-class games across multiple platforms, include Visual Concepts, Firaxis, Hangar 13, CatDaddy, Cloud Chamber, and HB Studios. Our portfolio of titles is expanding due to our global strategic plan, building and acquiring exciting studios whose content continues to inspire all of us! 2K publishes titles in today’s most popular gaming genres, including sports, shooters, action, role-playing, strategy, casual, and family entertainment.
Our team of engineers, marketers, artists, writers, data scientists, producers, thinkers and doers, are the professional publishing stewards of our growing library of critically-acclaimed franchises such as NBA 2K, Battleborn, BioShock, Borderlands, The Darkness, Mafia, Sid Meier’s Civilization, WWE 2K, and XCOM.
At 2K, we pride ourselves on creating an inclusive work environment, which means encouraging our teams to Come as You Are and do your best work! We are dedicated to diversity and inclusion, and want our community of candidates to reflect this commitment. We encourage all qualified applicants to explore our global positions. 2K is headquartered in Novato, California and is a wholly owned label of Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: TTWO).
What We Need
As a Sr Finance Analyst, you will serve as a key interface between Finance and the rest of the business, primarily marketing. This is a highly visible role where you will be providing financial and operational analyses and reporting to key partners 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.
What You Will Do
- Partner with global marketing teams to handle annual operating budgets, track results, 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
- Support and work closely with global Marketing teams to ensure that business performance is clear and the drivers of performance are understood, including promotion trends, brand/ customer profitability and external competitor analysis.
- Develop financial analysis that challenges & evaluates all marketing investment decisions and contribute to product roll out strategies.
- Provide timely, relevant and accurate monthly reporting & analysis of results against historical, budgeted and forecast data for Marketing to facilitate and influence decision-making
- Distilling large amounts of data into useful insights, using 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 operational 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
- Run forecast data loads and validation to ensure plan data accuracy
- Reconcile and review open POs related to relevant business areas, including researching and following up on variances and timing issues.
- Develop 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
- Prepares ad-hoc reports, special projects, and presentations for various internal stakeholders
Who We Think Will Be A Great Fit
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance or a Business related field
- Minimum of 4+ years of FP&A or relevant experience
- Must have expert-level 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 conclusion
We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.
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