Financial Planning Analyst - Projects

8 Months ago • 8 Years + • Finance

Job Summary

Job Description

Financial Planning Analyst with 8+ years experience in project controlling and management, strong analytical skills, and proven experience working closely with production teams.
Must have:
  • Financial Planning
  • Project Controlling
  • Production Teams
  • Data Analytics
Good to have:
  • Power BI
  • Data Visualization
  • Financial Modeling
  • Business Partnering
Perks:
  • Life at Ubi
  • Game Industry

Job Details

Company Description

Ubisoft’s 19,000 team members, working across more than 30 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.

Southeast Asia’s largest AAA game development studio with 450 talented team members representing 30+ nationalities. Opening its doors on the sunny shores of Singapore in 2008, Ubisoft Singapore set off on a vision to be a world class video game studio, and in its subsequent years played an essential role in several gaming blockbusters, including just about every Assassin's Creed® game since Assassin's Creed® II, Immortals Fenyx Rising™, and Ghost Recon Online. Its expertise in AAA and live operations, combined with a passion for naval battle gameplay and water technology, pushed the team to lead the development of a brand-new AAA game franchise – Skull and Bones™

Job Description

Your Purpose

Be a trusted business partner with production (project teams) to provide financial assistance for decision making and ensure effective and efficient collaboration with all stakeholders throughout the project lifecycle.

The Financial Planning Analyst enables senior management and production teams to make data-driven choices and critical decisions through financial insights and analysis. This role focuses on fostering strong relationships with project teams, through tailored business support and conducting regular budget preparation, reporting, and analysis.

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
    • Demonstrate 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
    • Provide additional analysis and forecast, looking for correlations between finance and production data
    • 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 

  • Bachelor's degree (preferably in finance or accounting)
  • At least 8 years of relevant FP&A experience, particularly in project controlling and management
  • Proven track record of working closely with production teams throughout the project cycle
  • 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

Additional Information

We are working to enrich players’ lives through unique and memorable gaming experiences and by improving the positive impacts of our games. To get there, we are creating a safer, more inclusive work environment, we are giving back to the communities where Ubisoft operates by working with local non-profit partners and by working to reduce the environmental impact of our business. We are an equal-opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation, age or disability status.

Come on board and experience #LifeAtUbi for yourself, we are always on the lookout for talents who thrive in bringing their A-game to work. If this sounds like you, shoot us your resume, portfolio, and anything else to show that you’re serious about fun!

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About The Company

Ubisoft’s 21,000 team members, working across more than 30 countries around the world, are bound by a common mission to enrich players’ lives with original and memorable gaming experiences.


Their commitment 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.

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