Senior Finance Director

Multiple Locations: Vancouver, BC, Canada • Redwood City, CA, USA • Orlando, FL, USA

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Requisition Number: 163107

Position Title: Senior Director, Finance

External Description:

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 provides strategic and financial partnership to EA’s Leadership team. We achieve this through engaging with our partners to understand our broad strategy, analyzing data, and delivering insights to guide EA’s performance.

This Senior Finance Director (FP&A) will lead business support for our Marketing, Positive Play, Corporate Functions, Worldwide Customer Experience (WWCE) and Music teams. Our Marketing teams include Relationship Marketing (Media & Community), Creative (Strategy and Content Production), Marketing and Consumer Insights, Brand, and Global Communications. Supported by a global team of 25, you will report to the Vice President of Finance, Real Estate and Physical Security.

What You’ll Do:

Business Partnering
You will partner closely with the Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) and leadership teams for HR, Legal, Finance, WWCE and team to improve business and finance outcomes through the allocation of resources and data-driven insights
Demonstrate professional maturity to challenge business partners’ views and decisions and understand the impact across the company
Influence senior leaders on significant matters. Manage conflicts, influence, persuade and negotiate
Major Functions & Related Activities
Lead all finance related activities including planning, forecasting, variance analysis and management reporting and insights
Bring regular financial visibility to performance, risks & opportunities (Profitability, Spend, Cost-per-View, Marketing Equivalent Value)
Review, approval and oversight of licensing/sponsorship contracts and their commitments
Anticipate risks and partner with the business to identify trade-offs and mitigation plans
Direct operating expense target setting process and partner with the business to operationalize targets
Collaborate with finance partners (e.g. Corporate FP&A, Commercial FP&A, Studios) to ensure holistic and accurate financial overview for consolidated marketing and commercial view, Corporate Functions and WWCE
Develop and maintain an organization focused on value creation and maintaining the highest standards of financial control.
Lead a team
Set a clear team vision and objectives; then hold each team member accountable
Train, coach, motivate and challenge team members in their development and career path
Lead and foster a culture of inclusion where diversity is celebrated
Resource management: identify gaps and proposed solutions
Reinforce the value of collaboration to achieve an objective
Implement best practices, processes and standards

Who You Are:

Experience leading, motivating, and coaching a global team
Able to manage through ambiguity with a bias for solutions and action
Ability to handle multiple and competing priorities, meet tight deadlines, and to thrive in a fast-paced environment with high degree of change
Able to work collaboratively, within the group across teams/functions as an expert and partner

Preferred Experience and Technical Skills

Bachelor’s degree required
At least 12 years of related financial experience
Extensive experience with P&L management, budgeting, forecasting, reporting and analysis
Proficiency in Accounting and general GAAP knowledge
Excellent MS Excel and PowerPoint expertise required, knowledge in Hyperion Essbase and Oracle preferred

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Company Profile:

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: 111

Can this position be remote?:

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