Senior Manager, Corporate Accounting

Requisition Number: 153476

Position Title: Senior Manager, Accounting

External Description:

Key responsibilities

The Senior Manager, Corporate Accounting will have a broad range of responsibilities involving the monthly close, quarterly earnings preparation and developing process efficiencies.  As an individual who will promote excellence throughout EA, this role involves a number of important responsibilities as follows:

Management/Development

• Manage 4 full time accounting professionals
• Hire, coach, retain and evaluate talented individuals. Assess performance and provide quarterly feedback to staff
• Lead in the identification and development of future leaders

 Close Process

• Oversee the U.S. accounting close process including financial statement review and analysis from both U.S. GAAP and management reporting perspectives
• Provide accounting business partner support; act as primary liaison to selected business groups across finance (i.e., FPA, SEC Reporting, Revenue, AR, etc.) and HR.
• Lead the coordination of accounting responsibilities between onshore and offshore accounting teams
• Manage accounting for FX revaluation, translation and business acquisitions
• Review the preparation of a number of monthly reconciliations and journal entries
• Manage the recording and settlement of inter-company transactions between the company and its international subsidiaries

Global Consolidation & Reporting

• Lead in providing a high level of customer service within finance and to other business partners
• Manage the accounting consolidation of the company and its international subsidiaries
• Review, understand and challenge the internally prepared monthly fluctuation analyses prepared by local teams and business units.
• Manage the preparation of the monthly consolidated financial statements with commentary on fluctuations from prior periods and company estimates. Present at the monthly close meetings
• Assist in the quarterly earnings release process

 Technical Accounting

• Prepare memos/whitepapers on accounting issues
• Evaluate the impact of emerging technical accounting issues, manage adoption and implementation
• Review and provide accounting conclusions on EA’s vendor agreements

 Audits and Projects

• Manage the coordination of U.S. financial statement audit and reviews, including the preparation of audit schedules
• Spend a portion of time on projects (e.g., globally aligning EA’s accounting practices, improving documentation, building more robust analytical reporting)
• A portion of the role will include leading other special projects as assigned
• Develop and maintain SOX documentation as they relate to Close to Consolidation, Finance and Investing controls

 Technical skills and experience

• BS or MS in Accounting or equivalent
• Certified Public Accountant
• > 9 years relevant financial accounting experience, including team management experience. Industry experience is preferred
• Strong knowledge of U.S. GAAP (incl. foreign exchange, derivatives, business combinations, expense recognition)
• Working knowledge of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002
• Effective time management, work prioritization and delegation skills
• Strong leadership, communication and interpersonal skills
• Experience with Oracle and Hyperion Financial Management a plus

Capabilities

• Analytical and creative problem solving skills; solution oriented individual
• Disciplined self-starter with strong attention to detail
• Strong business acumen
• Passion for data integrity, process definition and organizational alignment
• Embrace technical accounting concepts and apply knowledge in EA’s workpapers
• Strives for excellence
• Excellent oral and written communication skills; polished professional; communicates with impact
• Able to handle multiple and sometimes competing priorities; strong organizational framework
• Rapid learner

Talents

• Ability to adapt quickly and be effective in new situations
• Possesses passion, energy, enthusiasm to drive results; action oriented
• Thinks outside of the box; willing to challenge existing processes to drive efficiency
• Is a team player, adept at building relationships within Finance and across organizations
• Ability to build networks

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Company Profile:

Electronic Arts Inc. es una empresa de software de entretenimiento interactivo líder a nivel mundial. EA distribuye juegos, contenido y servicios en línea para consolas, ordenadores personales, teléfonos móviles y tabletas conectados a Internet.

EEOText: EA ofrece igualdad de oportunidades. Nuestras decisiones de empleo se hacen independientemente de raza, color, nacionalidad, ascendencia, sexo, género, identidad o expresión de género, orientación sexual, edad, información genética, religión, discapacidad, condición médica, embarazo o estado civil, familiar o de veterano, o de cualquier otra característica protegida por ley. También consideramos candidatos cualificados con antecedentes penales, de acuerdo a la ley aplicable. EA también lleva a cabo ajustes de espacios de trabajo para individuos cualificados con discapacidades, de acuerdo con la ley aplicable.

Days Open: 65

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EEO Employer Verbiage:

EA ofrece igualdad de oportunidades. Nuestras decisiones de empleo se hacen independientemente de raza, color, nacionalidad, ascendencia, sexo, género, identidad o expresión de género, orientación sexual, edad, información genética, religión, discapacidad, condición médica, embarazo o estado civil, familiar o de veterano. EA también lleva a cabo ajustes de espacios de trabajo para individuos cualificados con discapacidades, de acuerdo con la ley aplicable.