Senior Accountant

Job Description

About Electronic Arts

Everything we do is designed to inspire the world to play. Through our modern games, services, and powerful technologies, we bring worlds with infinite possibilities to millions of players and fans around the globe.

EA's CFO organisation 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 analyse and visualise 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.

The Challenge ahead

The Global Inventory and PI&E team based in Geneva are responsible for EA's Global inventory held in third-party warehouses located in North America, UK, Czech Republic, Mexico and Hong Kong.

Also, they provide support for EA's North American-based PI&E, EADP and EAIT teams who provide the infrastructure and technical expertise to support EA's digital gaming platform and IT structure. This evolving world is at the forefront of digital gaming. Thus, providing lots of opportunity for career growth and progression.

We're looking for a Senior Accountant to join the Controllership Team. You will participate in the accounting of Worldwide activities including some of the Inventory, Technology, and Infrastructure booking.

Report to: Manager II, Controllership

Role & Responsibilities of the HYD PI&E, EADP, EA IT Senior Accountant
o You will prepare journal entries including among others, monthly accrual's, Re -class journals, Capitalization and amortisation of Prepayments, Lease accounting entries, Intercompany Journal entries.
o You will participation to selected monthly cost review meetings with FP&A and non-finance budget holders using technical solutions and visualisation tools to use our Business Intelligence and to prepare accruals or reclassification entries.

Inventory
o Monitoring inventory transactions
o Working with operations team to resolve negative inventory or costing issues.
o Verifying accurate av. costs.
o Reconciling inventory accounts to the general ledger
o Preparing and uploading monthly journal entries.
o Prepare Cogs reviews, Preparation of GRNI reconciliations.
o Follow up and resolve PO queries.

General
o Prepare Cadency reconciliations.
o Running and downloading the main GL, inventory and transactions reports.
o Maintain process control documents.
o Provide back up to audit queries.
o Ad hoc projects
o Train others or pass on knowledge.

Qualifications and Experience:
o Bachelor/master's degree in commerce (Finance or Accounting)
o 8 years of general ledger accounting experience is required.
o Inventory or Cost accounting experience with an understanding of GAAP concerning inventory.
o Excel skills to Macro level, work with all levels throughout the organisation
o Oracle R12 financial application experience, Cadency experience, Power BI experience

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-rb2256-18-117-183-150-42 in your application.