Senior Financial Analyst

Job Description

Your Platform

Activision Blizzard plays a centralized role in the creation of epic entertainment by supporting our interactive gaming brands and studios with a diverse range of career opportunities across corporate functions such as Marketing, Communications, Legal, Human Resources and Finance.

Your Mission

The Senior Financial Analyst position on the Corporate FP&A team is a critical and highly visible role within the team that performs integrated companywide analysis and consolidation to support the Activision Blizzard King executive leadership team and assists with the companywide planning and forecasting processes. Reporting to the Senior Director of Corporate FP&A, this role will work to analyze, report and support the performance of the Company and specifically demonstrate a strong aptitude for interpreting, analyzing, and communicating sophisticated business issues. Problem solving, prioritization, and attention to detail are essential.

The essential functions of the role include supporting the Quarter Close, Quarterly Forecast and Guidance, Weekly Pacing, and Annual Operating Plan, including independent analysis as well as consolidation of business unit inputs. Key outputs include preparation and analysis of c-suite and board reporting packages, coordinating data-gathering across the organization, and assessing risk and opportunity ranges for initiatives and guidance.

1. Quarterly Forecast (50%) and intra-quarter trending
• Support the coordination of forecast inputs from all functions and business divisions, including process management via ERP and spreadsheet-based data gathering and alignment of key assumptions and drivers
• Prepare various analyses that drive business insight and frame financial risks and opportunities
• Perform variance analysis

2. Annual Operating Plan (25%)
• Work with partners across the business and the regions to plan for performance and expenditures in the year ahead, across the entire P&L
• Create and present executive review materials that consolidate and communicate financial strategy

3. Process improvement (15%)
• Drive standardization and effective evolution of the company's Hyperion-based financial planning system to drive efficiencies and meet business needs
• Create, evolve, and standardize company reporting to align cross-business unit communication
• Help automate standard processes to reduce reporting burden and increase sophistication and capacity for analysis

4. Financial models / ad hoc analysis for key operating decisions (10%)

Principal Working Relationships:
• Manager Corporate FP&A
• Senior Director Corporate FP&A
• VP, Corporate FP&A
• SVP, Corporate FP&A

Player Profile

Minimum Requirements:
• Education: Bachelor's degree (Post MBA candidates are encouraged to apply)
• Prior Experience: Minimum of 2-3 years of experience in Investment Banking, Public Accounting, or corporate FP&A role.
• General Financial Skills:
• Exceptional quantitative and financial modeling
• Ability to thrive and multitask in a constantly evolving environment
• Able to work independently, with limited direction
• Strong communication, writing, and presentation skills
• Excellent interpersonal skills at coordinating and consolidating inputs across multiple functions
• The highest standards of accuracy and attention to detail in a dynamic, multitasking environment
• Outstanding organizational, analytical, and problem-solving skills
• Hyperion/Essbase experience preferred
• Advanced proficiency in Excel and PowerPoint
• Knowledge of general accounting and financial planning

Pluses
• Experience in video game, software, technology or entertainment industries
• Real passion for video games

We love hearing from anyone who is enthusiastic about changing the games industry. Not sure you meet all qualifications? Let us decide! Research shows that women and members of other under-represented groups tend to not apply to jobs when they think they may not meet every qualification, when, in fact, they often do! At Activision Blizzard, we are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment and strongly encourage you to apply.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-ro5bm2-3-14-70-203-42 in your application.