Senior Financial Analyst

Job Description

Your Platform
We're headquartered in Santa Monica, California, housing multiple teams across many disciplines of Marketing, PR, Sales, Supply Chain and other corporate functions such as HR, IT, Legal, Facilities and Finance. Santa Monica is the nerve center of our company, where the best ideas combine with unrivalled rigor to create the biggest and best entertainment experiences in the world.
Your Mission
Activision is looking for a highly motivated, energetic and financially minded individual to join the Activision Publishing Finance team. This position will provide global FP&A support to Activision which includes the first-person shooter Call of Duty franchises (which includes the storied Modern Warfare, Black Ops and Warzone franchises!), Tony Hawk, Crash Bandicoot, Spyro and many more!
What you bring to the table
Priorities can often change in a fast-paced environment like ours, so this role includes, but is not limited to, the following responsibilities:
• Lead both long and short range financial planning on a global basis with finance leadership
• Support business planning efforts (annual budget and long-range planning)
• Identify future financial risks and opportunities across the division
• Drive management level reports in support of business reviews and help communicate results with Activision leadership
• Build infrastructure and process for weekly reporting of financial key performance indicators to Activision and Microsoft leadership
• Partner with finance and analytics to identify and implement process efficiencies to improve productivity and quality of forecasts
• Partner with ABK and Microsoft corporate finance in prepping and reviewing quarterly financials for earnings reports
• Support the quarterly forecast with a focus on accurate forecasting and variance analysis to provide business understanding
• Help translate Activision's Non-GAAP financials into MSFT facing GAAP oriented financials
• Assist with other ad-hoc projects that arise in this fast paced, ever-changing industry
Our team is lean, dynamic, and focused - which means you will have real responsibility and the opportunity to have high impact in one of the leading companies in the interactive entertainment space. Strong financial and business acumen, a desire to learn, attention to detail, timely follow through, adaptability, and the ability to effectively manage against multiple priorities are keys to success in this role.
Player Profile
The key qualifications for this role include:
• Strong partnership and collaboration skills
• 3-5+ years of experience plus 4 year degree
• Strong personal presence and communication to work across finance, marketing, development, and executive leadership in pursuit of business goals
• Strong user of Excel, PowerPoint and financial management tools
• Strong finance, business acumen and general analytical skills
• Self-starter with the ability to effectively manage multiple priorities simultaneously
• Bachelor's Degree in a related field (advanced degree or certification a plus)
• Experience with financial systems desired
• High energy; passion for games is a plus
Subject to eligibility requirements, the Company offers comprehensive benefits including:
• Medical, dental, vision, health savings account or health reimbursement account, healthcare spending accounts, dependent care spending accounts, life and AD&D insurance, disability insurance;
• 401(k) with Company match, tuition reimbursement, charitable donation matching;
• Paid holidays and vacation, paid sick time, floating holidays, compassion and bereavement leaves, parental leave;
• Mental health & wellbeing programs, fitness programs, free and discounted games, and a variety of other voluntary benefit programs like supplemental life & disability, legal service, ID protection, rental insurance, and others;
• If the Company requires that you move geographic locations for the job, then you may also be eligible for relocation assistance.
Eligibility to participate in these benefits may vary for part time and temporary full-time employees and interns with the Company. You can learn more by visiting https://www.benefitsforeveryworld.com/.
In the US, the standard base pay range for this role is $72,720.00 - $134,460.00 Annual. These values reflect the expected base pay range of new hires across all US locations. Ultimately, your specific range and offer will be based on several factors, including relevant experience, performance, and work location. Your Talent Professional can share this role's range details for your local geography during the hiring process. In addition to a competitive base pay, employees in this role may be eligible for incentive compensation. Incentive compensation is not guaranteed. While we strive to provide competitive offers to successful candidates, new hire compensation is negotiable.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-o1q8w2-216-73-216-0-42 in your application.