Senior Manager, North America Accounting Ops

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Activision Blizzard plays a centralized role in the creation of epic entertainment by supporting our interactive gaming brands and studios with a diverse range of career opportunities across corporate functions such as Marketing, Communications, Legal, Human Resources, Finance and Supply Chain. Located in our global headquarters in Playa Vista, we encompass equal parts agility, creativity and rigor to enhance the employee and player experience. To learn more, check us out at www.activisionblizzard.com or on Twitter at @ATVI_AB.

Your Mission

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 Senior Manager, Accounting Operations 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 Senior Manager, you  will oversee the accounting close processes, compliance, and governance through a business process outsourcing (BPO) model. This role ensures business continuity, accurate financial reporting, and adherence to Company policies, while providing thought leadership and help support alignment of team priorities with organizational strategy. Engaging with stakeholders across the organization, you will drive and/or support efforts on continuous improvement, enhance operational efficiency, and support business goals with strategic insights.
 
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.

Responsibilities include (but are not limited to the following):

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.

• Lead business operation team, partnering with ABK P2P teams to support business stakeholders effectively.

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

• Perform in-depth P&L and BS analysis and respond to inquiries from business and finance partners regarding actual financial performance.

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

• Collaborate with the Technical Accounting team to ensure consistent accounting practices across different regions.

Compliance and Reporting

• Partner with the IA and SOX teams to ensure robust controls are in place for all accounting processes.

• Take a leading role in SOX compliance for global accounting operations, overseeing and reviewing team adherence to controls.

Process Improvement and Optimization

• Lead the implementation and management of global standardized processes for key business activities, driving continuous process improvements.

• Identify opportunities for optimization and automation of accounting processes and lead global initiatives to improve efficiency and accuracy.

• Champion data-driven process improvement projects, recommending and implementing best practices to enhance operational performance.

• Act as a system administrator for critical accounting systems, offering guidance and support to both internal teams and external vendors.

• Act as a trusted advisor, sharing expertise across functions and contributing to continuous improvement initiatives.

Player Profile

• Bachelor’s degree in business, Accounting /Finance, or related field AND minimum 7 years accounting or finance experience.

• Extensive experience in accounting close and financial reporting.

• Proficiency in Oracle, Answers OBIEE, and/or SmartView is a plus.

• Experience working with international teams and a strong background in technical accounting is highly desirable.

• Consistent track record managing  external shared services providers, ensuring compliance with SLAs and quality service delivery.

We love hearing from anyone who is enthusiastic about changing the games industry. Not sure you meet all qualifications? Let us decide! Research shows that women and members of other under-represented groups tend to not apply to jobs when they think they may not meet every qualification, when, in fact, they often do! We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment and strongly encourage you to apply.

We are committed to working with and providing reasonable assistance to individuals with physical and mental disabilities. If you are a disabled individual requiring an accommodation to apply for an open position, please email your request to accommodationrequests@activisionblizzard.com General employment questions cannot be accepted or processed here. Thank you for your interest.

Our World

Activision Blizzard, Inc., is one of the world's largest and most successful interactive entertainment companies and is at the intersection of media, technology and entertainment. We are home to some of the most beloved entertainment franchises including Call of Duty®, World of Warcraft®, Overwatch®, Diablo®, Candy Crush™ and Bubble Witch™. Our combined entertainment network delights hundreds of millions of monthly active users in 196 countries, making us the largest gaming network on the planet!

Our ability to build immersive and innovative worlds is only enhanced by diverse teams working in an inclusive environment.  We aspire to have a culture where everyone can thrive in order to connect and engage the world through epic entertainment. We provide a suite of benefits that promote physical, emotional and financial well-being for ‘Every World’ - we’ve got our employees covered!

The videogame industry and therefore our business is fast-paced and will continue to evolve. As such, the duties and responsibilities of this role may be changed as directed by the Company at any time to promote and support our business and relationships with industry partners.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status, among other characteristics.

Rewards

We provide a suite of benefits that promote physical, emotional and financial well-being for ‘Every World’ - we’ve got our employees covered!  Subject to eligibility requirements, the Company offers comprehensive benefits including:

• Medical, dental, vision, health savings account or health reimbursement account, healthcare spending accounts, dependent care spending accounts, life and AD&D insurance, disability insurance;
• 401(k) with Company match, tuition reimbursement, charitable donation matching;
• Paid holidays and vacation, paid sick time, floating holidays, compassion and bereavement leaves, parental leave;
• Mental health & wellbeing programs, fitness programs, free and discounted games, and a variety of other voluntary benefit programs like supplemental life & disability, legal service, ID protection, rental insurance, and others;
• If the Company requires that you move geographic locations for the job, then you may also be eligible for relocation assistance.

Eligibility to participate in these benefits may vary for part time and temporary full-time employees and interns with the Company.  You can learn more by visiting https://www.benefitsforeveryworld.com/.