Finance Manager, Electronic Arts

• Highly-motivated, passionate self-starter
• Excellent interpersonal skills are a requirement for this role
• Strong overall communication, facilitation, and presentation skills
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, high volume, deadline-driven environment
• Creative problem-solving and conflict resolution skills
• Ability to balance multiple and competing priorities, meet tight deadlines, and to thrive in a fast-paced environment
• 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
• Strong business acumen
• Passion or preference for working in game development

Desirable

• 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 our broad strategy, analyzing data, and delivering insights to help drive EA’s current and future performance
• The EA SPORTS Finance Manager will provide business and finance support for our EA Vancouver team supporting our NHL and UFC titles
• This is a year-long assignment reporting to the EA SPORTS Finance Director of Heartbeat Portfolio. This is a hybrid role
• Build relationships with partners and actively collaborate to work towards meeting financial and business objectives
• Prepare, hold, and present business reviews for leaders focused on the story (not just data) with clear insights and actionable presentation material
• Drive results by partnering on business-related projects such as modeling business scenarios and tracking performance metrics
• Own financial planning process including quarterly, annual, and long-range modeling for studios
• Manage the studio P&L to track and maximize the health of the business
• Provide deep financial analysis focused on a variety of areas such as optimizing OC and/or determining appropriate levels of investment
• Proactively identify risks and opportunities
• Provide guidance on financial processes, building efficiencies, and streamlining deliverables
• Design and implement reporting tools
• Identify and lead initiatives to continuously improve, standardize and automate forecasting and reporting tools and processes
• Challenge status quo and provide alternative solutions