Electronic Arts

This is a 12 month full-time temporary role

ROLE OVERVIEW:

EA’s CFO organization comprises a broad group of finance disciplines. Our common goal is partnership with business teams delivering strategies and providing our players with amazing experiences. All our finance teams assist the business in achieving profitable creativity by providing 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.

This Finance Manager 1 will partner with FP&A, Commercial and Studio Leadership (Tracab & F1) teams. The role reports to the Director of FP&A. You will work a hybrid role, requiring three days per week in an EA office.

What You’ll Do:

Business Partnering

• Manage full P&L and overall financial health for Tracab and F1, providing strategic guidance and decision support
• to leadership.
• Effectively develop strong relationships with key leadership to help deliver the long-term strategy
• Drive and assist teams to provide timely and accurate reporting and analysis to assist with decision making and value creation.
• Influence key decisions by understanding the big picture combined with providing underlying deep financial analysis and insights
• Prepare and hold business reviews for Tracab and F1 leadership teams with clear and actionable presentation materials

Financial Forecasting and Reporting

• Develop and collaborate with Studio and Commercial team on long range, annual and quarterly revenue forecasts
• 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
• Guide analysis to highlight variance drivers and identify opportunities to mitigate risk and improve performance
• Responsible for purchase order approvals, budgeted spend tracking, monthly close activities, and headcount management. Set control processes in place to manage spending and headcount within plan.

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
• Ensure compliance with EA’s policies and procedures.

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

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree required. MBA or CPA preferred
• Minimum 6 years of related financial experience
• Demonstrated proficiency in Accounting and general GAAP knowledge
• Comfortable with complex datasets and modeling
• Experience communicating analytical findings for a range of audience
• Advanced MS Excel, PowerPoint or Google Suite, and experience using Anaplan and Power BI.