Financial Planning Partner FP&A – HQ & Reporting

Company Description

Ubisoft is a global leader in gaming with teams across the world creating original and memorable gaming experiences, from Assassin’s Creed, Rainbow Six to Just Dance and more. We believe diverse perspectives help both players and teams thrive. If you’re passionate about innovation and pushing entertainment boundaries, join our journey and help us create the unknown!

This role is part of Ubisoft Vantage Studios, which is is a Ubisoft entity that brings together three of the video game industry’s most iconic franchises, Assassin’s Creed, Far Cry, and Rainbow Six, with the mission of shaping and expanding them. It unites teams across multiple international studios to enhance creative autonomy, agility, and collaboration, while leveraging Ubisoft’s shared expertise, tools, and resources.

Job Description

Within Ubisoft Vantage Studios, working with the associate director FP&A – HQ, Reporting & Consolidation, your role will contribute to structuring and deploying financial reporting on HQ costs and support function (HR, Legal, Sales..). In addition, you’ll help design robust controls on Vantage financial reporting to ensure financial statements reliability.

You’ll be part of HQ vantage finance team (1 VP and 3 leads) and your position will imply close collaboration with Go to market and R&D FP leads as well as HQ teams.

Responsibilities and duties will evolve with Vantage Studios operating model. Position located in Saint-Mandé.

Responsibilities and Duties

1. Implement controls on analytical axes and financial statements through automation & processes:

• Build controls on financial statements in both actual & forecast.
• Build controls on intercompany flows.
• Provide reporting and follow up on major inconsistencies to FP vantage leads (R&D, Go to Market, HQ - Conso).
• Drove improvements in actual and forecast processes by identifying gaps, issuing recommendations, and implementing corrective measures.

2. Develop and implement reporting and budget follow up on HQ departments:

• Partner with Vantage HQ teams (legal, HR, sales, marketing) on their departments to forecast & report HQ costs.
• Build actual vs forecast reports to provide budget visibility to HQ leaders.
• Contribute to HQ budget forecasts in collaboration with your lead.
• Help ensure analytical financial closing accuracy by providing guidance to HQ teams on budget/department to be used.

3. Accompany transversal reporting deployment across Vantage Studios:

• Contribute to transversal reporting implementation (Social management, CAPEX, ect..)
• Build & Scale automatized actual vs forecast reporting.
• Work on ad-hoc analysis in collaboration with your lead.

Qualifications

• Solid practical knowledge of creating and implementing reporting with business intelligence tools.
• Solid analytical mindset, comfortable working with large datasets.
• Proven ability to manage budget follow-up with multiple operational stakeholders.
• Experience developing PowerBI reports is a plus.
• Experience developing automation and programming languages (e.g. Python) is a plus.
• Fluent in English.

Additional Information

Ubisoft's perks

💰 Profit Sharing, yearly company saving plan. 25 paid time off + 12 additional paid days off. 50% of your transportation pass is paid by the company, lunch vouchers (9€/day), healthcare for you and your family, and lots of Ubisoft additional perks.
👶 Maternity leaves of 20 weeks, paternity/co-parental leaves of 7 weeks.
📍 Our office is located in Saint Mandé, (Metro line 1, Saint Mandé station). Gym available in the building.

Recruitment process

[30 minutes] : phone call with a Recruiter,
[60 minutes] : interview with the manager of the role and a HR Business Partner,
[60 minutes] : interview with the VP Finance of Vantage, 

Information about Ubisoft

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