Finance Manager - Corporate FP&A

Location: Redwood City, CA, USA

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Requisition Number: 153495

Position Title: Manager II, Finance

External Description:

ENTERTAINING IS OUR PASSION

We’re EA—the world’s largest video game publisher. You’re probably familiar with many of our titles—Madden, FIFA, The Sims, Need for Speed, Battlefield, 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 hard work. That’s why we employ the most creative, passionate people in the industry.

Role Overview

Located at EA’s global headquarters in Redwood Shores, Corporate Functions Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) plays a critical role in providing budgeting, forecasting and analytic support for EA’s corporate cost centers. The Finance Manager II will provide direct business partnership to and influence the CFO/COO (Finance), Chief People Officer (Human Resources), Global Facilities, General Counsel (Legal) and other corporate functions. This role will manage a finance team that provides timely, accurate and insightful reporting and analysis and will be the key leader to drive efficient processes for budgeting and forecasting of expenses, headcount and capital.

Business Partnering
- Effectively develop strong relationships with key leadership to help deliver the long-term strategy
- Influence key decisions by understanding the big picture combined with providing underlying deep financial analysis and insight
- Lead a finance team to partner with corporate functions, understanding specific business objectives for each and actively working as their finance liaison to facilitate their success
- Prepare and hold business reviews for EA’s leadership team with clear and actionable presentation materials

Financial Forecasting and Reporting
- Manage all forecasting and reporting activities related to Opex, Capex, and Headcount according to the Corporate calendar
- Lead financial reviews with budget owners to develop annual plans and subsequent forecast updates.
- Drive insightful analysis to highlight variance drivers and identify opportunities to mitigate risk and improve performance

Monthly and Quarterly Close
- Manage all close activities for assigned departments including identifying and preparing accrual and reclass entries to ensure precise accounting of known activities

Drive FP&A Excellence
- Play a crucial role in building and retaining our world-class FP&A team
- Identify and lead initiatives to continuously improve, standardize and automate forecasting and reporting tools and processes

Technical Skills and Requirements

Bachelor’s degree required. MBA or CPA preferred
Minimum 7 years of related financial experience
Highly motivated, passionate, self-starter; comfortable interacting with and presenting to senior management
Experienced people manager to lead finance team and provide executive management support
A team player able to work collaboratively, within the group and cross-functionally across business units/functions, as a thought leader, project manager, partner, and effective independent team member
Demonstrated increasing levels of responsibility and independence
Ability to recommend, manage and drive projects to successful completion
Demonstrated proficiency in Accounting and general GAAP knowledge
Strong business acumen with understanding of functional linkages and ability to build strong professional relationships with business partners in both operational and financial roles
Ability to effectively prioritize multiple and sometimes competing demands; comfortable with multiple daily responsibilities requiring attention to detail, self-validation and correction of work produced or reviewed
Excellent MS Excel and PowerPoint expertise required, knowledge in Hyperion Essbase and Oracle preferred

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We are a global team of creators, storytellers, technologists, experience originators, innovators and so much more. We believe amazing games and experiences start with teams as diverse as the players and communities we serve. At Electronic Arts, the only limit is your imagination.

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About Electronic Arts

Everything we do is designed to inspire the world to play. Through our cutting-edge games, innovative services, and powerful technologies, we bring worlds with infinite possibilities to millions of players and fans around the globe.

We’re looking for collaborative and inclusive people with diverse perspectives who will enrich our culture and challenge us. We take a holistic approach with our benefits program, focusing on physical, emotional, financial, career, and community wellness to support our people through every chapter of life. We provide comprehensive benefit packages and support for a balanced life with paid time off and new parent leave, plus free games and so much more. Our goal is to provide a safe and respectful workplace that empowers you to thrive in both work and life.

Electronic Arts is an equal opportunity employer. All employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, genetic information, religion, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, marital status, family status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We will also consider employment qualified applicants with criminal records in accordance with applicable law. EA also makes workplace accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities as required by applicable law.

Days Open: 28

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