Senior Finance Business Partner - PlayStation Store

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Role overview:

This role serves as the key Finance business partner for the PlayStation Store (PS Store) team globally working with them to ensure that performance is challenged and understood. This role provides the commercial analytical support to enable the business to measure against financial target KPIs. It plays an important role providing support and advice for new propositions/games and promotions.

Reporting to the Store Senior Finance Manager, this role provides high-impact financial support and analysis across a large range of stakeholders. It plays a key role in sizing, evaluating and supporting PS Store revenue growth initiatives.

What you'll be doing:

Planning & Forecasting

• Forecasting, sizing, tracking and reporting PS Store revenue growth initiatives across a variety of projects and teams
• Build the financial forecast for Store promotions; modelling and data lead challenges/ support to business proposals
• Contribute to the budgeting, forecasting and Mid-Range Plan processes in close collaboration with PS Store Planning team
• Provides timely reports and drives standardisation of outputs across Digital Finance

Business Partnering

• Return on investment for all promotion activities with recommendations for process and commercial improvements
• Drive consistency in measurement approach across key growth initiatives including Payments, Customer Lifetime Value Optimisation and Personalisation
• Works closely with the business on Experimentation programmes
• Lead on business casing for new business activity within the Store, ensuring they follow the appropriate governance and review

Main duties and responsibilities:

• Provide business partnering support to PS Store Commercial team to drive value and growth
• Perform store-specific analysis, e.g., business cases and consumer investment analysis
• Drive analysis on promo investment and price optimisation/elasticity for new releases, new and back catalogue
• Drive business results through performing what-if / scenario planning through margin
• Consulted and challenges budget, forecasts, and mid-range plan
• Ensure alignment between Store and Services

What we're looking for:

• Qualified Accountant or MBA with at least 5 years relevant PQE in a finance function
• Senior level business partner experience ideally at board or global level
• Strong financial background with ability to evaluate financial impact of business decisions
• Advanced knowledge of Excel
• Familiarity with business intelligence and reporting tools such as SAP, Workday Adaptive, Domo and Tableau
• Experience of working in a regional /global environment
• Experience of digital products or subscription services (i.e. online services & entertainment business (Games/ Film / Music))

Preferred Qualities:

• Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to maintain effective working relationships
• Strong written & verbal communication skills, including the ability to present detailed analyses
• Organised self-starter, with drive and ambition who thrives under pressure, and is capable of confidently working alongside the most senior stakeholders across the wider business
• Attention to detail, commitment to accuracy & adherence to deadlines
• Able to identify and develop opportunities to improve, innovate and/or pioneer new ways of working through continuous process improvement practices

Benefits:

• Discretionary bonus opportunity
• Hybrid Working (within Flexmodes)
• Private Medical Insurance
• Dental Scheme
• 25 days holiday per year
• On Site Gym
• Subsidised Café
• Free soft drinks
• On site bar
• Access to cycle garage and showers

Equal Opportunity Statement:

Sony is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All persons will receive consideration for employment without regard to gender (including gender identity, gender expression and gender reassignment), race (including colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin), religion or belief, marital or civil partnership status, disability, age, sexual orientation, pregnancy, maternity or parental status, trade union membership or membership in any other legally protected category.

We strive to create an inclusive environment, empower employees and embrace diversity. We encourage everyone to respond.

PlayStation is a Fair Chance employer and qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records will be considered for employment.