Senior Financial Analyst

Job Description

Job Title: Senior Financial Analyst

Location – Hyderabad

We are a global team of creators, storytellers, technologists, experienced originators and so much more. We believe amazing games and experiences start with teams as diverse as the players and communities we serve. At Electronic Arts, the only limit is your imagination.

About EA India - Electronic Arts India, a technology company and video game developer in India, brings together experienced individuals from diverse backgrounds with a shared experience inspiring the world to play.

We are EA. We entertain millions of people across the globe with the most amazing and immersive interactive software in the industry. But making games is tough. That's why we employ the most creative, passionate people in the industry.

The CFO organisation 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.

You will report to Manager, FP&A

Main Responsibilities, includes:

Business Partnering:
• Provide deep financial analysis focused on a variety of areas such as P&L, Headcount, R&D, COGS and M&S
• Reviewing & building forecasts and budgets, suggesting changes, and implementing the changes to ensure smooth forecasting
• You will work with Studio partners to track revenue, opex and headcount monthly and act as a financial advisory to maximise OC
• You will work with the Game PMs to understand the weekly drivers of revenue and present it to the business for important titles
• Approve headcount and opex requisitions based on evidence and budget
• Help us to identify and lead projects to improve, standardise and automate forecasting and reporting tools
• Work with Studios finance partners to consolidate total Mobile Financials on a basis

Financial Close, Forecasting and reporting support:
• Work with the finance partners to manage close timelines, process, and reporting
• You will be responsible for month end accruals, headcount, Opex and Revenue for BUs in India
• You will be responsible for month end opex reviews with all finance partners in Studios to track them spends
• Prepare forecast decks, including commentary for leadership meetings
• Ad-hoc analysis for senior leadership on variety of areas such as P&L as a whole and also individual areas of Revenue, R&D, M&S and Headcount
• Design and implement reporting tools to provide further transparency and visibility to enable spend and analysis

Promote FP&A Excellence
• Help peers and interns onboard with sound knowledge on systems, business and process flows to equip them to be independent.
• Receive/provide feedback to grow and help grow fellow peers in their roles
• Streamline and automate processes that will improve accuracy and reduce time in EA Studios
• Ensure the reporting is consistent across all the studios
• Eliminate large datasets in Power BI and prepare summarised 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.
• 8+ years of related Financial and FP&A experience
• Demonstrated passion for learning.
• Comfortable building analysis based off data from multiple sources.
• Experience with Anaplan and / Power Bi

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-r0xe81-18-221-174-248-42 in your application.