Senior Financial Planning Analyst

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Company Profile

Ubisoft's 20,000 team members, working across more than 40 locations around the world, are bound by a common mission to enrich players' lives with original and memorable gaming experiences. Their dedication and talent have brought to life many acclaimed franchises such as Assassin's Creed, Far Cry, Watch Dogs, Just Dance, Rainbow Six, and many more to come. Ubisoft is an equal opportunity employer that believes diverse backgrounds and perspectives are key to creating worlds where both players and teams can thrive and express themselves. If you are excited about solving game-changing challenges, cutting edge technologies, and pushing the boundaries of entertainment, we invite you to join our journey and help us create the unknown.

Since opening its doors in 2008, Ubisoft Singapore has become the biggest AAA game development studio in Southeast Asia. The 500-strong studio is home to 35+ different nationalities focused on delivering ambitious gaming experiences to our players. Ubisoft Singapore has been contributing to all the Assassin's Creed® titles since Assassin's Creed® II. It innovated within the franchise as the studio behind the naval battle gameplay and water technology in Assassin's Creed® III, Assassin's Creed® IV Black Flag® and most recently in Assassin's Creed® Valhalla. Its expertise in AAA and live operations, combined with a passion for naval gameplay, pushed the team to lead the development of Skull and Bones™ revealed at E3 in 2017.

Job Description

Your Purpose

Be a trusted business partner with production (project team) to provide financial assistance for decision making and collaborating effectively and efficiently with all stakeholders.

The Senior Financial Planning Analyst enables senior management and Production teams to make data driven choices and critical decisions through financial insights and analysis. This will be achieved through regular budget preparation, reporting, analysis, and most importantly tailored business support.

The individual will be facilitating effective collaboration with all stakeholders at projects, studio, collaboration studios and HQ.

Your Daily Adventure
• This role will report to the Lead, Financial Planning for the Singapore studio.
• Projects Budgeting and Reporting
• Prepare initial project budgets and monthly forecast update
• Consolidate and analyze financial data (staffing, activity costs, actuals, forecast)
• Monitor and challenge projects' budgets and ensure the projects' spending are within the budget
• Build and maintain dashboards on financial status and risks
• Provide analysis and recommendations to optimize costs and improve financial performance
• Manage and maintain staffing tools
• Consolidate and prepare projects' P&L
• Prepare finance dashboard for Production's major updates to HQ.
• Projects Business Partner
• Demonstrated initiative to engage with business stakeholders in making recommendations for financial/business process and tool improvement
• Conduct regular meetings with producers and executives to communicate finance vision
• Conduct business studies on historical performance, conduct benchmarking, develop financial models, identify trends, conduct ad hoc studies
• Raise flags when need be to address quickly any potential domain issue
• Analyze current tools and practices, assess about efficiency and drive change if need be

Qualifications

What You Bring
• Passion for Financial Planning
• Bachelor's degree (preferably in finance or accounting)
• At least 8 years of relevant FP&A experience in project controlling and management
• Self-driven contributor who takes on a hands-on and inquisitive approach in data analytics and recommendations for financial/business process and tool improvement
• Resilient and able to adapt quickly to address changes and issues with minimal supervision
• Good communication skills (spoken and written), presentation skill and good interpersonal skills to influence and business partner effectively with the key stakeholders
• Ability to work in an unstructured environment, navigate ambiguity, manage multiple assignments simultaneously, and cut through complexity
• Ability to drive, motivate and have team spirit, passion for gaming is a plus
• Fluency in English
• Proficient in Microsoft suite (Excel, Powerpoint, Power BI, Query), exposure to Data Visualization tools, and demonstrated record in learning/deploying IT tools.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-gxxqbq-18-119-136-235-42 in your application.