Electronic Arts

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.

You will partner with internal Mobile FP&A, Commercial and Mobile Studio Leadership teams and report to the Director of FP&A. Our Mobile team creates engaging and evolving daily entertainment through mobile games people love to play. This is a hybrid role with 3 days in office working from either our Los Angeles, CA, Redwood Shores, CA or Vancouver, Canada office.

Knowledge of the gaming industry, especially free to play business models, advertising and user acquisition are a significant advantage.

What You’ll Do:

Business Partnering

• Manage the holistic health of the two mobile studios, including full P&L responsibility
• Provide strategic advice and partnership to two mobile studios
• 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 insight
• Prepare and hold business reviews for EA’s leadership team 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.

Drive FP&A Excellence

• Play a crucial role in building and retaining our world-class FP&A team. 
• Identify and lead initiatives to continuously improve, standardize and automate forecasting and reporting tools and processes

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

Preferred Experience and Technical Skills 

• Bachelor’s degree required.  MBA or CPA preferred 
• Minimum 6 years of related financial experience
• Demonstrated proficiency in Accounting and general GAAP knowledge
• Excellent MS Excel (can perform complex functions) and PowerPoint expertise required, knowledge in Power BI and Oracle preferred