Electronic Arts

Senior Financial Analyst 

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.

 Location: Hyderabad

You will report to Manager II, FP&A

Business Partnering: 

• Provide financial analysis for Marketing & CE business - Opex

• Reviewing forecasts and budgets, suggesting changes, and implementing the changes to ensure smooth forecasting

• Partner with Marketing, CE business partners on Opex spend & HC, discuss on future spend and forecast accordingly

 • Identify and lead projects to continuously improve, standardize and automate forecasting and reporting tools and processes

 • Partner with finance partners, identify challenges on HC loads and suggesting changes – Regular catchups with various finance partners Financial Close, Forecasting, Reporting and Analysis support:

 • Partner with the finance partners to manage close deliverables, timelines, process, and reporting

 • Responsible for month end accruals, headcount, Opex and Capex for various teams across Experience

 • Responsible for handling different budgets within Marketing & CE ( Content, Design, Marketing Innovation, Fan Care, etc)

• Preparation of forecast decks, including commentary for leadership meetings

 • Ad-hoc analysis for senior leadership - Experience group

• Design and implement reporting tools to provide further transparency and visibility to enable flexibility in spend and analysis Drive FP&A Excellence

• Manage and develop 3 direct reports

• Identify and lead projects to continuously improve, standardize and automate forecasting and reporting tools and processes

• Provide timely feedback to the team members on performance

• Identify challenges in all Experience teams, streamline and automate processes that will improve accuracy and reduce time

• Ensure the reporting is consistent across Experience group

Qualifications:

Academic Qualifications - Good to have Master of Business Administration in Finance but not mandatory. Bachelor’s degree required – Finance / Accounting related field preferred.

 • 6-8+ years of related Financial and FP&A experience

• Demonstrated passion for learning and growing.

 • Highly motived with an ability to manage multiple and sometimes competing priorities.

• Comfortable building analysis based off data from multiple sources.

 • Extreme attention to detail with a rigorous process for review of accuracy.

 • Excellent oral / written communication and interpersonal skills that enable clear and concise communication to all levels of the organization.

• Adept in MS Office, with an emphasis on Excel and PowerPoint. • Experience with Anaplan and / Power Bi