Electronic Arts

The Finance organization at EA is evolving to become more strategic, insight-driven, and tech-enabled. As part of our multi-year transformation, we are investing in modern platforms, scalable automation, and digital tools that empower our teams and improve how we work. We are looking for a leader to help simplify complex finance systems and data landscapes into clear Finance Technology capabilities that allow transformation at scale. Operate finance technology as a product business and be an integrator of financial systems. Implement process improvements that lead to automation and accelerated decision-making. Executive storytelling for Finance & Technology leadership; turn platform, data, and AI outcomes into clear business narratives. Reporting to the VP, Finance Transformation, you will be responsible for:

• Finance Technology Platform

• Data & Insights integration and reporting

• Finance AI Strategy

Workplace guidance: Onsite at EA location minimum three days a week. Locations include EA regional offices.

Responsibilities & Outcomes

Finance Technology & Platform Leadership

• You will lead the design, enhancement, and integration of core finance systems and tools in partnership with CTO and partners.

• You will advocate for simplifying financed systems and create automations that allow real-time decision-making.

• You will improve user adoption across finance and the enterprise on employee facing finance systems.

Finance Technology & AI Strategy

• Lead the product vision and roadmap—prioritize IBP-critical finance data, curate the enterprise catalog and standards, and steers backlog, budget, and OKRs while engineering teams build and run.

• Develop AI-driven scenario planning with finance data and insights team members

• Integrate AI automation, advanced analytics and systems modernization across the Finance team.

• Develop strategy plan for integration and modernization of current finance systems.

• Promote the development and scaling of AI-powered and automation-first solutions that reduce manual effort and improve efficiency across finance processes (e.g., forecasting, close and reporting).

Data & Insights Integration and reporting

• Lead data, system enhancements, and AI-powered scenario planning

• Develop requirements and understand impacts across global finance to create integration tools, dashboards and insights for finance leaders and business operations teams.

Team & People Management

• Lead team of finance technical experts that support data and insights, solutions architecture, platform support for finance systems. Resources are located globally (North America and Hyderabad).

Collaboration & Governance partnership

• Operate Finance Technology as a product business with a multi-horizon roadmap, clear milestones, and value metrics, delivering measurable benefits while managing capacity, risks, and ensuring business continuity.

• Be the strategic connector between Finance, CTO, HR, and EA-wide digital transformation functions.

• Establish governance to prioritize work, measure return on investment, and maintain agreement on EA's technology architecture and security principles.

• Partner with CTO business applications team to ensure delivery excellence across internal and external partners.

Required Qualifications

• 12+ years of progressive leadership experience in finance systems, digital transformation, or enterprise platforms, with understanding of Finance operations.

• Experience leading technology projects across complex organizations.

• Experience with cloud ERP, EPM, BI, and AI platforms (e.g., Oracle, SAP, Anaplan, Power BI, Python/ML/GenAI frameworks).

• Experience managing teams

• Experience writing complex macros for Excel