Senior Finance Analyst, PlayStation

• Bachelor’s degree
• Minimum 5-6 years of work experience in finance/business analytics role
• Flexible working, or San Mateo office as needed (approx. 2 days per week - STC)

Desirable

• This role is responsible for the accurate financial planning, reporting and analysis of Global Marketing and Overhead expenditures, providing the link between the Business and Accounting functions
• This critical team member will support our monthly/quarterly/annual budget and forecasting processes and coordinate and manage our global month-end accounting and reporting deliverables (teams across UK, US and Japan)
• Key responsibilities will also include guidance on processes, spend classifications and accounting practices to support consistent and robust reporting
• The role reports to the Senior Manager, Financial Planning & Reporting – Global Marketing (San Mateo, CA)
• Since the range of responsibilities is varied in this contract role, this candidate requires the ability to pick up new responsibilities & deliverables quickly, strong communication skills, a willingness to be flexible with changing priorities, and excellent organisation skills to prioritise workload and keep to tight deadlines at month-end
• Responsible for the delivery of monthly, quarterly, and annual Global & Territory Marketing budget, forecast, and financial reviews
• Management of accurate Global Marketing team budget trackers where client team budget and expenses are consistently tracked and reconciled, ensuring data integrity and variance explanations for discrepancies
• Lead monthly meetings with marketing budget owners to ensure forecasts and actuals are accurate ahead of key submission deadlines
• Submit accurate rolling forecasts into various planning tool systems within tight deadlines
• Prepare monthly Global Marketing finance reports, including actuals and commitments versus budget/forecast, along with value-add insights and variance analysis and commentary
• Re-design and optimize FP&R GM workflows and processes to minimize complexities and promote efficient business planning operations
• Provide clear guidelines and explain accounting policies and principles to non-financial teams to drive the correct recognition of costs across product verticals and GL accounts, support consistent and robust reporting, and ensure budgets are accurately represented
• Prepare monthly accruals and recharges for Accounting Team journal entry posts
• Ownership of? / Coordinate month-end deliverables and liaise with Accounting, Vendor Management and Accounts Payable Teams on behalf of Global Marketing Financial Planning & Reporting (FP&R) Team
• Support corporate headcount and operating expense governance/controls policies and procedures
• Prepare detailed ad hoc expense analysis and reporting for FP&R team, leadership team and key partners for strategic decision-making
• Data gathering and preparation of financial data for ad hoc expense analysis and reporting to leadership team and key partners
• Provide ongoing support to select Global Marketing Teams to help troubleshoot accounting, vendor management, payment processing, and financial system-related issues
• Ad hoc set up of internal orders and accounting codes
• Ad-hoc work and projects as required
• This position is for a contract engagement through our staffing partner DZConneX (Yoh Services). The anticipated duration is 12 months