The CFO organization comprises a broad group of finance disciplines, with the common goal of partnering with business teams delivering strategies and providing our players with amazing experiences. Our finance teams assist the business in achieving profitable creativity by proving 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 diversity and inclusion by creating a place where you can come to work and be yourself.
Location: Hyderabad
You will report to Director, FP&A
Business Partnering & Systems
Provide deep financial analysis focused on a variety of areas such as P&L, R&D, COGS, M&S & Live Services
Reviewing forecasts and budgets, suggesting changes, and implementing the changes to ensure smooth forecasting
Collaborate with Commercial team on long range, annual and quarterly revenue forecasts
Own and manage the Total Company reporting. Work closely with Finance and Business stakeholders every Estimates
Provide analysis to highlight variance drivers and identify opportunities to mitigate risk and improve performance
Identify and lead global projects to continuously improve, standardize and automate forecasting and reporting tools and processes
Partner with finance partners, identify challenges on Revenue loads and suggesting changes – Regular catchups with various finance partners
Work closely with Finance Partners in order to manage risk and opportunities to maintain financial goals
Lead efforts in driving system enhancement and issue resolution for our financial reporting systems from ideation through implementation and stabilization.
Foster collaboration and drive process and system improvements in partnership with the Financial Systems and Analytics team, and partners across the Finance and IT teams.
Financial Close, Forecasting, Reporting and Analysis support:
Partner with the finance partners to manage close deliverables, timelines, process, and reporting
Responsible for Total Company Close and Estimate reporting
Preparation of forecast decks, including commentary for leadership meetings
Ad-hoc analysis for senior leadership on variety of areas such as Revenue, P&Ls & R&D
Design and implement reporting tools to provide further transparency and visibility to enable flexibility in spend and analysis Drive FP&A Excellence
Manage and develop 4 direct reports (Supervisors)
Identify and lead projects to continuously improve, standardize and automate forecasting and reporting tools and processes
Provide timely feedback to the team members on performance
Identify challenges across Enterprise FP&A teams, streamline and automate processes that will improve accuracy and reduce time
Report Standardization - Ensure the reporting is consistent across FP&A teams
Qualifications:
Academic Qualifications - Good to have Master of Business Administration in Finance but not mandatory. Bachelor’s degree required – Finance / Accounting related field preferred.
12+ years of related Financial and FP&A experience
7+ years of experience in People Management
Experience in delivering large projects working with multiple teams outside finance
Demonstrated passion for learning and growing
. • Highly motived with an ability to manage multiple and sometimes competing priorities.
Comfortable building analysis based off data from multiple sources.
Extreme attention to detail with a rigorous process for review of accuracy. Excellent oral / written communication and interpersonal skills that enable clear and concise communication to all levels of the organization.
Adept in MS Office, with an emphasis on PowerPoint.
Experience with Anaplan and / Power Bi is a plus
About Electronic Arts
Everything we do is designed to inspire the world to play. Through our cutting-edge games, innovative services, and powerful technologies, we bring worlds with infinite possibilities to millions of players and fans around the globe.
We’re looking for collaborative and inclusive people with diverse perspectives who will enrich our culture and challenge us. We take a holistic approach with our benefits program, focusing on physical, emotional, financial, career, and community wellness to support our people through every chapter of life. Our goal is to provide a safe and respectful workplace that empowers you to thrive in both work and life.
Electronic Arts is an equal opportunity employer. All employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, genetic information, religion, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, marital status, family status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We will also consider employment qualified applicants with criminal records in accordance with applicable law. EA also makes workplace accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities as required by applicable law.