Finance Manager, Mobile FP&A

Requisition Number: 168823

Position Title: Manager I, Finance

External Description:

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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 and form our broad strategy, analyzing data, and delivering insights to help improve EA's performance.

This Finance Manager role is a unique opportunity to be a collaborative partner and trusted advisor to the leadership teams responsible for EA Mobile's Casual studios. These studios develop high priority strategic franchises for EA / Glu Mobile, including Design Home and Covet Fashion, and require an experienced partner to help propel these businesses forward. Knowledge of the gaming industry, especially free to play business models, advertising and user acquisition are a significant advantage. You will manage one Financial Analyst and reports to the Director of FP&A.

What You'll Do:

Business Partnering

• Develop symbiotic relationships with studio partners to help achieve the long-term strategy of the game and studio.
• Manage the studio P&L and influence investment and product decisions to maximize the health of the business. This includes partnership with studio leads and other teams on live service revenue forecasts, user acquisition plans, and R&D investment decisions.
• Create P&L modeling and evaluate business opportunities to support new product incubation.
• Prepare and hold business reviews and forecast reviews for studio leadership teams with clear and applicable presentation materials.

Financial Forecasting, Reporting, Analysis and Close

• Manage all quarterly forecasting and monthly reporting activities related to the Studio P&L of assigned studios.
• Guide studio partners on developing R&D forecasts, including headcount planning. Manage risks and opportunities to maintain financial goals.
• Lead long-term business planning and modeling with studio leadership.
• Manage all close activities for assigned studios including identifying and preparing accrual and reclass entries in partnership with direct report to ensure precise accounting of known activities.
• Partner with FP&A teams from acquired mobile companies on process and business integration.
• Analyze the performance of all live games on a weekly and monthly basis. This may include building new reports or new dashboards.
• Design and run complex financial and operational models to develop meaningful insights.

Drive FP&A Excellence

• Create new or improve existing revenue models for team members
• Identify and lead projects to improve forecasting and reporting tools.
• Manage one direct report. Work to enhance their skills and provide any necessary training or guidance
• Work with functional heads to set up quarterly/monthly/annual financial forecast and report out performance against financial targets 

Who You Are:

• Passionate about the gaming and mobile entertainment industry
• Enjoy putting the pieces of the business together like a puzzle, connecting the dots
• Comfort turning ambiguity into clarity
• Curious to understand the business and make recommendations based on insights from historical and current trends, market conditions and game KPIs
• A team player able to work collaboratively, across departments, as a project manager and independent team member
• Experience working with BI tools and large datasets. Passion for data integrity, process definition and organizational agreement
• Experience with performance management, scorecards, and dashboarding

Experience and Technical Skills

• Bachelor's degree
• Minimum 5 years of related financial experience
• Experience with P&L management, forecasting, reporting and analysis
• Expert in Excel (can build complex spreadsheets) - especially when conducting financial modeling and revenue modeling
• Proficiency in Accounting and general GAAP knowledge
• Experience with financial forecasting and reporting tools such as Anaplan and Power BI
• People management experience

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Company Profile:

Electronic Arts Inc.는 세계를 선도하는 인터랙티브 엔터테인먼트 소프트웨어 기업입니다. EA는 인터넷 콘솔, 개인용 컴퓨터, 휴대전화, 태블릿용 게임과 콘텐츠 및 온라인 서비스를 제공합니다.

EEOText: EA는 균등한 기회의 제공을 실천합니다. 모든 채용은 인종, 피부색, 출신 국가, 혈통, 생물학적/사회적 성별, 성 정체성 또는 표현, 성적 성향, 나이, 유전 정보, 종교, 장애 여부, 질병 유무, 임신 여부, 혼인 상태, 가족 상황, 군 복무 여부, 또는 법으로 금지된 기타 요인을 고려하지 않고 결정됩니다. 또한, 해당 직책에 합당한 능력을 갖추고 있다면 범죄 기록이 있는 지원자도 관련 법률을 준수하는 방식으로 채용 여부를 고려합니다. EA는 관련 법률에서 명시하는 대로 업무 공간에 장애가 있는 입사 지원자 또는 예정자를 위한 시설을 마련해두고 있습니다.

Days Open: 67

Can this position be remote?: 0

EEO Employer Verbiage:

EA는 균등한 기회의 제공을 실천합니다. 모든 채용은 인종, 피부색, 출신 국가, 혈통, 생물학적/사회적 성별, 성 정체성 또는 표현, 성적 성향, 나이, 유전 정보, 종교, 장애 여부, 질병 유무, 임신 여부, 혼인 상태, 가족 상황, 군 복무 여부 등의 요인을 고려하지 않고 결정됩니다. EA는 관련 법률에서 명시하는 대로 업무 공간에 장애가 있는 입사 지원자 또는 예정자를 위한 시설을 마련해두고 있습니다.