Ubisoft’s 21,000 team members, working across more than 40 locations around the world, are bound by a common mission to enrich players’ lives with original and memorable gaming experiences. Their dedication and talent has 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.
Job Description
Ubisoft, a global leader in the video games and entertainment software industry, is currently seeking a full-time Senior Manager Financial Planning, Marketing (M/W/NB) to lead a team responsible for the annual plan and budgeting process of marketing investments across Ubisoft’s Publishing organization. This individual will be located in Paris and report to the Senior Director Financial Planning.
Responsibilities:
Budgeting and Forecasting of Marketing Expenses
Lead Publishing’s global tracking, forecasting and annual plan of key franchise marketing budgets
Coordinate with other teams to ensure timely completion of business plan deliverables
Collaborate with Transversal Marketing and Finance Analytics teams to understand and validate marketing business assumptions. Support marketing executives to create investment prioritization.
Analyze historical benchmarks to recommend marketing investment and the allocation to local markets
Reporting
Perform consolidation and reconciliation of company-wide Marketing expenses and financial KPIs for a comprehensive spend view
Develop monthly reporting and variance analysis for business partners and executive team
Act as liaison with Corporate Finance team regarding financial performance, communicate key drivers, risks and opportunities as well as underlying planning assumptions
Development and Maintenance of Marketing System Landscape, Methods and Processes
Drive continual process improvement leveraging best practices, standardization, and automation to improve the effectiveness of financial planning and forecasting activities
Develop analytical tools, automated reporting systems, dashboards, and models to help track, assess, and optimize financial performance
Build, maintain and improve financial systems in collaboration with IT
Work closely with worldwide marketing and finance teams to harmonize and streamline finance processes and data structures across the Publishing business entities
Serve as business champion on finance-related global projects
Manage intercompany rebills for Marketing spend according to transfer pricing guidance
Team Management
Lead a team of three members. Provide development coaching to direct reports to improve quality and standard of general work products. Drive execution within tight time constraints
Qualifications
First management experience
Advanced proficiency in financial analysis & financial modeling
Advanced Excel skills and data manipulation of large, multi-dimensional data sets. Experience in data visualization tools and programming language is a plus.
Action oriented individual with excellent time and project management skills
Strong written and verbal communication capabilities
Able to foster a culture of collaboration, teamwork and strong inter-team and cross function cohesiveness and alignment
Problem solver with hands-on mentality, big picture thinker and keen attention to detail with excellent analytical skills
Fluency in English is a must have
Additional Information
Ubisoft offers the same job opportunities to all, without any distinction of gender, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, social status, disability or age. Ubisoft ensures the development of an inclusive work environment which mirrors the diversity of our players’ community.
Position based in Saint Mandé (Metro Porte de Montreuil - line 9, or St Mandé - line 1)
