Electronic Arts

Responsibilities:

• Forecasting, Planning, and Reporting – Complete Ownership of the overall function

• Ensure accurate and timely completion of reporting deliverables in advance of Quarterly Business Reviews, MBRs, etc.

• Review the plan and forecast numbers, and then load in the system after consulting with the business leaders. Ensure alignment with the business goals on Opex.

• Responsible for reporting Actuals, comparing them with plan/latest forecast and providing commentary for major variances.

• Should be able to give heads up to the leaders with respect to any unforeseen expenses, Risks & Opportunities.

• Should have keen eye to details especially in situations where cost reduction is necessary and make recommendations to the leadership.

• Work directly with global business partners and help them with the daily finance adhocs

• Creation of new reports whenever there is a business team request for new report/ info.

• Regular interaction with various business and finance partners who are operating from different locations across globe.

• High data accuracy & keenness on number matching is a must.

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

• Help peers and interns onboard with sound knowledge on systems, business and process flows to equip them to be independent.

• Receive/provide timely feedback to grow and help grow fellow peers in their roles 

• Streamline and automate processes that will improve accuracy and generate efficiency

• Ensure the reporting is consistent across all the CDP Functions
 

Qualifications: 

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

• 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 is a plus