Finance Manager, Global Analytics & Insights (GAI)

Requisition Number: 156878

Position Title: Manager I, Finance

External Description:

We’re EA—the world’s leading video game publisher. You’re probably familiar with many of our titles—Madden, FIFA, The Sims, Apex Legends, Battlefield, Need for Speed, 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:

Our Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) team plays a critical role in providing strategic partnership to leaders across EA. We achieve this through effectively engaging with our partners to understand our broad strategy, analyzing data, and delivering insights to help drive EA’s current and future performance.

This Finance Manager will be responsible for business partnering with our Global Analytics & Insights (GAI) Team which includes Studio and Marketing Analytics, Research, Lifecycle Management, Portfolio Planning and Strategy. This manager will also be supporting the broader Marketing, Publishing and the Analytics (MPA), Corporate Functions, & Worldwide Customer Experience (WWCE) teams. This role reports to the Sr. Finance Director.

What You’ll Do:

• Business Partnering with our Global Analytics and Insights (GAI) Team
  • Build relationships with partners and actively collaborate to work toward a goal
  • Provide deep financial analysis focused on a variety of areas such as maximizing profitability or resource allocation
  • Prepare, hold, and present business reviews for leaders focused on the story (not just data) with clear insights and actionable presentation material
  • Drive results by partnering on business-related projects such as modeling business scenarios and tracking performance metrics
    

• Financial Close, Forecasting, Reporting and Analysis support for our Global Analytics and Insights Team
  • Own the financial forecast and provide insightful analysis to highlight variance drivers and identify opportunities to mitigate risk / improve performance
  • Partner with the Accounting group to manage Close deliverables, timelines, process and reporting
  • Design and implement reporting tools
    

• Operating Expense Central support driving FP&A Excellence

• Identify and lead initiatives to continuously improve, standardize and automate forecasting and reporting tools and processes across MPA, Corporate Functions and WWCE teams
• Challenge status quo, provide alternative solutions and lead the teams through projects
• Consolidation of quarterly Non-Balance Sheet Marketing Commitments
• Driving MPA Close, Forecasting, Reporting timelines and deliverables including R&Os, Close and Forecast Narratives
• Central point of contact for MPA OpEx Central
  

Who You Are:

• Highly-motivated, passionate self-starter
• Ability to handle multiple and competing priorities, meet tight deadlines, and to thrive in a fast-paced environment with high degree of change
• Ability to work with ambiguity and independence
• A team player able to work collaboratively, within the group and cross-functionally across business units/functions as a thought leader and partner
  

Preferred Experience and Technical Skills

• Bachelor’s degree required
• Minimum 5 years of related financial experience
• Experience with P&L management, budgeting, forecasting, reporting and analysis
• Demonstrated proficiency in Accounting and general GAAP knowledge
• Excellent MS Excel and PowerPoint expertise required, knowledge in Hyperion Essbase, Tableau and Oracle preferred

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Company Profile:

Electronic Arts Inc. è un'azienda di software di intrattenimento interattivo leader globale. EA offre giochi, contenuti e servizi online per console collegate ad internet, personal computer, cellulari e tablet.

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Days Open: 76

Can this position be remote?:

EEO Employer Verbiage:

EA promuove le pari opportunità. Qualsiasi decisione di impiego viene fatta senza discriminazione di razza, colore, nazionalità, origini, sesso, genere, identità o espressione di genere, orientamento sessuale, età, informazione genetica, religione, invalidità, condizione medica, gravidanza, stato civile, stato familiare o anzianità. EA rende accessibile il posto di lavoro per gli individui diversamente abili, come indicato dalla legge.