Finance Manager

Job Description

Finance Manager

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 of 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.

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
• You will partner 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 important 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
• Manage Mobile Platform consolidation (Revenue, Opex, Capex, and Headcount)
• Collaborate with Commercial team on long range, annual and quarterly revenue forecasts by title
• Lead financial reviews with budget owners to develop annual plans and subsequent forecast updates
• 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
• Help build and retain our world-class FP&A team.
• Identify and lead initiatives to improve, standardize and automate forecasting and reporting tools and processes

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

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US COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS

The base salary ranges listed below are for the defined geographic market pay zones in these states. If you reside outside of these locations, a recruiter will advise on the base salary range and benefits for your specific location.

EA has listed the base salary ranges it in good faith expects to pay applicants for this role in the locations listed, as of the time of this posting. Salary offered will be determined based on numerous relevant business and candidate factors including, for example, education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, geographic location, and business or organizational needs.

BASE SALARY RANGES
• California (depending on location e.g. Los Angeles vs. Sacramento):

º $95,450 - $141,800
• Washington (depending on location e.g. Seattle vs. Spokane):

º $89,200 - $130,750

Base salary is just one part of the overall compensation at EA. We also offer a package of benefits including paid time off (3 weeks per year to start), 80 hours per year of sick time, 16 paid company holidays per year, 10 weeks paid time off to bond with baby (following 1 year of service), medical/dental/vision insurance, life insurance, disability insurance, and 401(k) to regular full-time employees. Certain roles may also be eligible for bonus and equity.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-gwo052-18-222-111-24-42 in your application.