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Senior Financial Analyst

The CFO organization comprises a broad group of finance disciplines, with the common goal of partnering with business teams delivering strategies and providing our players with amazing experiences. Our finance teams assist the business in achieving profitable creativity by proving financial insight, reporting and guidance.

We use progressive tools to analyze and visualize data, telling the story of financial drivers, performance, risks and opportunities. We value attributes like collaboration and learning. We celebrate diversity and inclusion by creating a place where you can come to work and be yourself.

Role Overview

Our Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) team plays an important 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 current and future performance. This Senior Financial Analyst will support Marketing, specifically our Global Growth Marketing team. You will report to a Finance Manager.

Responsibilities

Business Partnering

• You will build relationships with partners and collaborate to work toward a goal
• 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
• Provide reporting focused on a variety of areas such as maximising profitability or resource allocation
• Prepare, hold, and present business reviews for leaders focused on the story (not just data) with clear insights and presentation material
• Achieve results by partnering on business-related projects such as modeling business scenarios and tracking performance metrics

Financial Close, Forecasting, Reporting and Analysis

• Oversee the financial forecast for Global Media and provide analysis to highlight variance drivers and identify opportunities to mitigate risk / improve performance
• You will partner with the Accounting group to manage close deliverables, process and reporting
• Design and implement reporting tools
• Promote FP&A Excellence
• Identify areas for continuous improvement, standardization and automation of forecasting and reporting
• Challenge status quo and provide alternative solutions

Requirements

• 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