Senior Financial Analyst, Commercial Opex

EA’s CFO organization comprises a broad group of finance disciplines. Our common goal is partnership with business teams delivering strategies and providing our players with amazing experiences. All of our finance teams assist the business in achieving profitable creativity by providing financial insight, reporting and guidance.

We use progressive tools to analyze and visualize data, telling the story of financial drivers, performance, risks and opportunities. We value attributes like collaboration and learning. We celebrate inclusion by creating a place where you can come to work and be yourself. 

Role Overview:

Our Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) team plays a critical role in providing strategic partnership to leaders across EA. We achieve this through effectively engaging with our partners to understand and evolve our strategy, analyzing data, and delivering insights to help drive EA’s performance.

This Senior Financial Analyst role reports to the Finance Manager II of Financial Planning & Analysis and partners closely with the EA Experience teams across Publishing - Commercial. This role is positioned to oversee Operating Expenses of multiple CXO’s business units and to collaborate closely with the business to forecast and track our cost. 

What You’ll Do:

Business Partnering

1. Build relationships and actively collaborate with key FP&A teams such as Commercial, Marketing, Studios, and Enterprise to work toward delivering.
2. Prepare, hold, and present business reviews for leaders focused on the story (not just data) with clear insights and actionable presentation material.
3. Support strategic decision making by partnering on projects such as modeling financial scenarios.

Financial Close, Forecasting, Reporting and Analysis

1. Monthly Close Meetings with stakeholders in Commercial
2. Own the financial forecast and provide insightful analysis to highlight variance drivers and identify opportunities to mitigate risk / improve performance.
3. Partner with the Accounting group to manage Close deliverables, timelines, process, and reporting.

Drive FP&A Excellence

1. Identify and lead initiatives to continuously improve, standardize and automate forecasting and reporting tools and processes.
2. Work closely with Total Experience FP&A leadership to provide updates, explanations, and inputs for consolidation to deliver clear and concise narrative for Enterprise reporting and business management.
3. Challenge status quo and provide alternative solutions and efficiencies.

Who You Are:

• Highly motivated, passionate self-starter. A strong bias for action and driving results.
• Ability to handle multiple and competing priorities, meet tight deadlines, and to thrive in a fast-paced environment with a high degree of change.
• Strong initiative and desire to drive change and enhance processes. Ability to proactively identify business risks and opportunities.
• Ability to work with ambiguity and independence.
• A team player able to work collaboratively, within the group and cross-functionally across business units/functions as a thought leader and partner.

Preferred Experience and Technical Skills 

• Bachelor’s degree required
• Minimum 5 years of related financial experience
• Strong experience with P&L management, OpEx budgeting, forecasting, reporting and analysis
• Demonstrated proficiency in Accounting and general GAAP knowledge

Excellent MS Excel and PowerPoint expertise required, knowledge in Anaplan, Power BI and Oracle preferred