Senior Manager - Accounting Process

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, Finance and Supply Chain. Located in our global headquarters in Santa Monica, we encompass equal parts agility, creativity and rigor to enhance the employee and player experience. To learn more, check us out at www.activisionblizzard.com or on Twitter at @ATVI_AB.

Your Mission

The Senior Manager - Accounting Process will have a leadership role in analyzing current business practices, identifying inefficiencies, and developing improved business and accounting practices with a focus on standardizations and process improvements.

This position requires working at a global level and cross functions with corporate and local accounting teams, business unit finance, and other departments to eliminate inefficiencies in business and accounting transactional processing while strengthening internal controls. This person will be challenged to apply critical thinking and analytical skills along with disciplined project management experience to meet tight deadlines and evolving business needs.

This opportunity will appeal to someone who thrives in a fast paced, growing company. The ability to multi-task and think outside the box is a must for this position. The candidate must be able to work well independently as well as in a highly collaborative team environment.

Responsibilities include (but are not limited to the following):
• Create and maintain documentation of global accounting policies and procedures related to general accounting transactions (i.e. prepaid, fixed assets, manual journal entries, accounts reconciliations etc.)
• Understand and document current accounting processes to identify variability across regions / business units and inefficiencies
• Develop best practices and recommend future state global processes with a focus on standardization
• Maintain an effective global repository of accounting policies, procedures and/or process maps
• Determine and document the accounting process impact of new initiatives or change to business processes. Assist stakeholders to define their ''from/to'' change impacts and develop adoption action plans.
• Assist with documenting and prioritizing Record-to-Report process enhancement requests across business units
• Regularly report and update on progress, timelines, and challenges.
• Develop performance metrics to measure the impact of implemented process changes successes
• Perform audits to ensure compliance with established accounting policies and procedures and ensure audit findings are responded to and necessary corrective actions are completed timely.
• Ad Hoc reporting and financial support as needed
• Other duties and special projects as assigned

Player Profile

Minimum Requirements:
• Bachelor's Degree Required - Accounting, Finance, and/or Information Technology
• 7+ years of experience in accounting, finance, internal controls and/or consultancy
• Financial acumen to include knowledge and understanding of internal controls, US GAAP, and financial shared services processes and procedures
• Roll-up-the-sleeves and self-motivated from proactively identifying areas of improvements, analyzing data, gathering supports, proposing and documenting solutions
• Practical experience designing and documenting business processes and sub-processes.
• Strong process knowledge with the ability to identify root causes and champion solutions
• Acute attention to detail
• Ability to work under pressure, meet deadlines and handle multiple projects simultaneously
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills that could drive alignment of processes and methods across different teams and levels of the organization
• Proficient in Microsoft Office, with emphasis on robust Excel skills

Extra Points:
• Experience with Oracle and/or other ERP systems, Hyperion Essbase, OBIEE Answers, etc. (preferred)

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-d96k5z-18-218-254-122-42 in your application.