Manager, Accounting Operations I ABK

3 Weeks ago • 3 Years + • Account Management • Finance

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Job Description

The Manager, Accounting Operations I will oversee timely and accurate accounting close processes and governance through a business process outsourcing model, ensuring compliance. Responsibilities include conducting governance of vendor teams, monitoring KPIs and SLAs, researching accounting standards, fielding business partner inquiries, resolving issues, ensuring statutory financial statement compliance, supporting global statutory reporting, providing financial analysis for tax filings, and working with external auditors. The role also involves process improvement and optimization, leveraging technology to enhance internal processes. This position requires a qualified accountant with 3+ years post-qualification experience in accounting or finance, strong knowledge of IFRS, and excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
Must have:
  • Qualified accountant with 3+ years experience
  • Accounting close/financial reporting experience
  • IFRS accounting standards knowledge
  • Strong collaboration and business partnership skills
  • Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
Good to have:
  • Oracle, Answers OBIEE, Smartview experience
  • Spanish proficiency

Job Title:

Manager, Accounting Operations I ABK

Requisition ID:

R024521

Job Description:

Come join an organization that empowers our stakeholders to achieve more through trusted services that ensure accuracy, timeliness, privacy, and accessibility!

We are seeking a highly driven, innovative, and passionate Finance Manager to join the Accounting Operations team inside Finance Operations. Accounting Operations provides large-scale, global accounting support for financial close, reporting, statutory compliance, and audit for over 300 ABK/Microsoft legal entities and lines of business. We are a global team with staff and delivery centers around the world. Accounting Operations is continuously expanding its scope, evolving operating models with intelligent automation, innovative processes, and offering cost efficient solutions for ABK. We strive to provide end-to-end experiences for our customers with built-in compliance and intelligent insights.

As the Manager, you will oversee timely and accurate accounting close processes and governance through our business process outsourcing model, ensuring business continuity and accounting compliance. You'll provide thought leadership, guiding successful execution of accounting, statutory, and financial reporting processes, engaging with stakeholders across ABK. The ideal candidate brings curiosity, innovative thinking, and a strong background in accounting close, business partnering, process management, and collaboration.

ABK’s mission is to empower every person and every organization to achieve more. With a growth mindset, we innovate, collaborate and uphold values of respect, integrity, and accountability fostering a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive.

In alignment with our ABK values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day.

Our hybrid working model empowers teams across ABK to decide how they want to work together, with a mix of inoffice and home working. This allows us to connect, collaborate, celebrate and work effectively in our teams.

Core Job Responsibilities

Governance and Compliance

  • Conduct governance of vendor teams performing Accounting Operations activities, including preparation and review of financial close journal entries, balance sheet account reconciliations, analytical reviews and other financial reporting in compliance with ABK accounting policies and guidelines.

  • Monitor Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and Service Level Agreement (SLA) metrics for accuracy and compliance.

  • Research, review, and document accounting standards, guidelines, and policies. Field complex questions from business partners in alignment with accounting policies.

  • Conduct P&L and BS analysis and respond to inquiries from business and finance partners regarding actuals.

Issue Resolution and Support

  • Investigate and resolve business partner inquiries, accounting deviations, and other anomalies.

  • Serve as an escalation point of contact to resolve complex issues when governing vendors in a shared services environment. Facilitate issue resolution with leadership, business partners, team members, and vendor leadership.

  • Provide escalated support and troubleshooting to users. Investigate and resolve business partner inquiries, accounting deviations, and other data anomalies.

Compliance and Reporting

  • Ensure statutory financial statements and relevant tax filings are completed, filed timely, and in compliance with local laws and regulations across a range of legal entities and countries.

  • Support Global ABK's local statutory reporting and compliance process.

  • Provide detailed financial analysis to support local tax filings and tax planning initiatives in collaboration with local tax team and external advisors.

  • Preparation and review of tax provisions, including current and deferred tax calculations.

  • Act as one of the primary points of contact for external auditors, managing the audit process from planning to completion.

Process Improvement and Optimization

  • Implement and execute standard, global processes for key business activities.

  • Manage continuous process improvement and identify process optimization and/or automation opportunities by evaluating and leveraging technology to enhance internal processes.

Skills & Experience

  • Qualified accountant with 3+ years post qualification work experience in accounting or finance

  • Accounting close/financial reporting experience

  • Knowledge of IFRS accounting standards, tax regulations

  • Influence without authority and drive accountability

  • Strong collaboration and business partnership

  • Strong verbal and written communication

  • Extensive experience and proven ability to work with international teams

  • Problem solving skills and root cause analysis with resolution

  • Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and organizational skills.

  • Experience in Oracle, Answers OBIEE and/or Smartview is a plus

  • Working proficiency in Spanish is a plus

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About The Company

Founded in 1979, Activision continues to disrupt the world of entertainment with its extensive roster of epic blockbuster games -- Pitfall®, Tony Hawk®, Guitar Hero®, Crash Bandicoot™, Skylanders™, Bungie’s Destiny and Call of Duty.®


As the leading worldwide developer, publisher and distributor of interactive entertainment and products on consoles, mobile and PC, our “press start” is simple: delight players around the world with innovative, fun, thrilling, and engaging entertainment experiences.


Activision is headquartered in Santa Monica, and publishes globally in markets including U.S., Canada, Brazil, Mexico, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Ireland, Poland, Sweden, Spain, Denmark, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Australia, Singapore, mainland China, Hong Kong and the region of Taiwan.


At Activision, we strive to connect and engage our global player community through entertainment. Our success comes from the passionate, talented and diverse team of people behind our world-class franchises. Ensuring Activision is an inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive will help us deliver a new era of epic entertainment for our players.

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