Manager, FP&A

Job Description

The CFO organization comprises a broad group of finance disciplines, with the common goal of partnering with business teams delivering strategies and providing our players with amazing experiences. Our finance teams assist the business in achieving profitable creativity by proving 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.

Location: Hyderabad

You will report to Manager II, FP&A

Business Partnering:
• Provide deep financial analysis focused on a variety of areas such as P&L, Headcount, R&D, COGS and M&S
• Reviewing forecasts and budgets, suggesting changes, and implementing the changes to ensure smooth forecasting
• Collaborate with Commercial team on long range, annual and quarterly revenue forecasts by title
• Own and manage the COGS forecasting. Work closely with Finance and Business stakeholders every Estimates
• Provide analysis to highlight variance drivers and identify opportunities to mitigate risk and improve performance
• Identify and lead global projects to continuously improve, standardize and automate forecasting and reporting tools and processes
• Partner with finance partners, identify challenges on Revenue loads and suggesting changes – Regular catchups with various finance partners
• Work closely with Finance Partners in order to manage risk and opportunities to maintain financial goals

Financial Close, Forecasting, Reporting and Analysis support:
• Partner with the finance partners to manage close deliverables, timelines, process, and reporting
• Responsible for month end Close reporting for various teams across Commercial FP&A
• Preparation of forecast decks, including commentary for leadership meetings
• Ad-hoc analysis for senior leadership on variety of areas such as P&Ls & R&D
• Design and implement reporting tools to provide further transparency and visibility to enable flexibility in spend and analysis
• Provide daily update on HD Live Services revenue to the Senior Leadership of the organization

Drive FP&A Excellence
• Manage and develop 4 direct reports
• Identify and lead projects to continuously improve, standardize and automate forecasting and reporting tools and processes
• Provide timely feedback to the team members on performance
• Identify challenges across commercial FP&A teams, streamline and automate processes that will improve accuracy and reduce time
• Ensure the reporting is consistent across commercial FP&A teams
• Eliminate large data sets in Power BI and prepare summarized columns and make the files faster – wherever needed

Qualifications:
• Academic Qualifications - Good to have Master of Business Administration in Finance but not mandatory. Bachelor's degree required – Finance / Accounting related field preferred.
• 10+ years of related Financial and FP&A experience
• 5+ years of experience in People Management
• Demonstrated passion for learning and growing.
• Highly motived with an ability to manage multiple and sometimes competing priorities.
• Comfortable building analysis based off data from multiple sources.
• Extreme attention to detail with a rigorous process for review of accuracy.
• Excellent oral / written communication and interpersonal skills that enable clear and concise communication to all levels of the organization.
• Adept in MS Office, with an emphasis on Excel and PowerPoint.
• Experience with Anaplan and / Power Bi

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-rb367e-18-220-154-41-42 in your application.