Sr. Financial Analyst

Senior Financial Analyst

Austin, TX (Collab/Hybrid)

As a part of Sony Interactive Entertainment, PlayStation is leading the cloud gaming revolution, putting console-quality video games on any device.

As a Senior Financial Analyst, you are capable of handling the review, analysis, and approval of costs for the Software Technology & Operations Group. You enjoy facing new challenges and the sense of accomplishment from tackling them. Never a dull day, a healthy mix of various projects ensures that the work is both challenging and fast paced.

Responsibilities:

• Cost modeling and accounting:

• Lead in managing, improving, and expanding our network cost models, including but not limited to:

• Compute cost models

• Storage cost models

• Colocation cost models & Datacenter cost allocations

• Network cost models & allocations

• Integrating these models for various services and network assets, into our financial models & forecasts.

• Expanding upon models/data to determine cost per instance hour/concurrent users/viewers or other metrics as may be required by finance & management.

• Update the network forecast model to reflect new or changed services, costs, renewal terms etc.

• Reconcile project-based models and cost segregations against various teams’ capex budgets and ongoing spend.

• Assist in providing ad-hoc summaries or breakdowns of various projects or subdivisions of budget and YTD spend, provide to management and assist them with any inquries and review.

• Budget controls:

• Review, mark, and track spend via our procurement process to make sure purchase requests are aligned with budget items, or if unbudgeted, routed for approval and accounted for.

• Assist in the planning & forecasting of such spend, as necessary.

• For items requiring additional tiers of approvals, obtain information required to present and request spend to management committee.

• Assist with preparing quarterly reviews of opex/capex spend by department and region, for presentation in quarterly business reviews and/or cross-functional team reviews.

• Any other ad-hoc requests or cost modeling or cost accounting related tasks as required.

FP&A:

• Manage, improve, and expand our budget cost models.

• Analyze each regions’ monthly expenses to identify variances to forecast. Use this data to update dashboards for management review.

• Assist in tracking down causes of variances to determine if budget or cost model requires updating, or if action is required with our regional partners & vendors.

• Identify errors and communicate necessary journal entries to accounting department.

• Review monthly assets-in-progress and fixed asset files, to group and mark assets according to project, usable life, and correct in service timing.

• Reconcile against capex budget to always have the most up-to-date spend vs budget figures for sharing and review with our functional and cross-functional teams.

• Review amortization schedule for license and support agreements, to confirm treatment and values match appropriately.

• Provide ad-hoc summaries or breakdowns of various projects or subdivisions of budget and YTD spend, provide to management and assist them with any questions and review.

• Liaise with regional Corporate Planning partners, to assist each other with the review and analysis of their respective regions’ incurred costs and variances.

• Any other ad-hoc requests or FP&A related tasks as required.

Skills and Knowledge:

• BA/BS or equivalent with at least 5 years of relevant experience in accounting and/or finance roles.

• Experience in: financial modeling, cost accounting, forecasting, consolidation, is preferred.

• Experience in public accounting, is preferred.

• Experience in managing vendor relationships, performance, is a plus.

• Must be extremely detail oriented, analytical and results focused.

• Strong excel skills, are required.

• Prior experience in networking, cloud industry or related field is welcomed but not necessary.

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The estimated base pay range for this role is listed below.

$134,200 — $201,400 USD