Sr. Financial Analyst, PlayStation
$134.2-201.4k
Gaming and digital entertainment provider
Open for applications
Gaming and digital entertainment provider
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$134.2-201.4k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To create a gaming experience without barriers that fits the needs of players of all abilities.
Role
Who you are
- BA/BS or equivalent with at least 5 years of relevant experience in accounting and/or finance roles
- Experience in: financial modeling, cost accounting, forecasting, consolidation, is preferred
- Experience in public accounting, is preferred
- Experience in managing vendor relationships, performance, is a plus
- Must be extremely detail oriented, analytical and results focused
- Strong excel skills, are required
- Prior experience in networking, cloud industry or related field is welcomed but not necessary
What the job involves
- As a part of Sony Interactive Entertainment, PlayStation is leading the cloud gaming revolution, putting console-quality video games on any device
- As a Senior Financial Analyst, you are capable of handling the review, analysis, and approval of costs for the Software Technology & Operations Group. You enjoy facing new challenges and the sense of accomplishment from tackling them. Never a dull day, a healthy mix of various projects ensures that the work is both challenging and fast paced
- Lead in managing, improving, and expanding our network cost models, including but not limited to:
- Compute cost models
- Storage cost models
- Colocation cost models & Datacenter cost allocations
- Network cost models & allocations
- Integrating these models for various services and network assets, into our financial models & forecasts
- Expanding upon models/data to determine cost per instance hour/concurrent users/viewers or other metrics as may be required by finance & management
- Update the network forecast model to reflect new or changed services, costs, renewal terms etc
- Reconcile project-based models and cost segregations against various teams’ capex budgets and ongoing spend
- Assist in providing ad-hoc summaries or breakdowns of various projects or subdivisions of budget and YTD spend, provide to management and assist them with any inquries and review
- Review, mark, and track spend via our procurement process to make sure purchase requests are aligned with budget items, or if unbudgeted, routed for approval and accounted for
- Assist in the planning & forecasting of such spend, as necessary
- For items requiring additional tiers of approvals, obtain information required to present and request spend to management committee
- Assist with preparing quarterly reviews of opex/capex spend by department and region, for presentation in quarterly business reviews and/or cross-functional team reviews
- Any other ad-hoc requests or cost modeling or cost accounting related tasks as required
- Manage, improve, and expand our budget cost models
- Analyze each regions’ monthly expenses to identify variances to forecast. Use this data to update dashboards for management review
- Assist in tracking down causes of variances to determine if budget or cost model requires updating, or if action is required with our regional partners & vendors
- Identify errors and communicate necessary journal entries to accounting department
- Review monthly assets-in-progress and fixed asset files, to group and mark assets according to project, usable life, and correct in service timing
- Reconcile against capex budget to always have the most up-to-date spend vs budget figures for sharing and review with our functional and cross-functional teams
- Review amortization schedule for license and support agreements, to confirm treatment and values match appropriately
- Provide ad-hoc summaries or breakdowns of various projects or subdivisions of budget and YTD spend, provide to management and assist them with any questions and review
- Liaise with regional Corporate Planning partners, to assist each other with the review and analysis of their respective regions’ incurred costs and variances
- Any other ad-hoc requests or FP&A related tasks as required
Our take
Since the release of the PS1 in 1994, PlayStation has been a consistent leader in the video gaming market. Its consoles are iconic in the gaming community - Playstation has produced both the top-selling and fastest-selling console of all time - and the company is still pushing boundaries. Its current flagship - the PS5 - promises to revolutionize gaming, featuring new technology that will create improvements across the board.
As well as its consoles, PlayStation has also developed online services, connecting its users and giving them access to diversified media. A PlayStation can be used for a huge range of activities - from Netflix to guided workouts - which has led to the expansion of the company's audience over time and across generations.
PlayStation faces competition in its field from the likes of Microsoft, with its Xbox range, and PC gaming, which has been becoming more popular in recent years. Regardless, PlayStation shows no signs of slowing down. The upcoming implementation of in-game ads in free games looks to significantly increase revenue, and the wider PlayStation gaming experience also appears to be evolving from plans to launch live service games in upcoming years.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
8% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- Private medical insurance
- Private dental insurance
- Flexible working policy (remote working, flexible hours)
- Free fruit every day in our offices
- On-site free gym (London & Liverpool)
- On-site subsidised cafés
- On-site bar (Thursdays & Fridays, London & Liverpool)
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Eye care assistance
- x2 volunteering days each year
- Group pension plan
- Discretionary bonus scheme
- Season ticket loans
- Life assurance
- Income protection
- 25 days holiday, plus Bank Holidays
- Discretionary days off over Christmas and summer
- Free giveaways of select first party products and services
- Discounts on PlayStation products
- Discounts on Sony products
- Access to other corporate discounts
Company HQ
East San Mateo, San Mateo, CA
Leadership
Jim Ryan
(CEO, not founder)Ryan joined Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe (SIEE) in 1994. Taking over as SIEE president in 2011, he later moved on to head of global sales and marketing at SIE in April 2016. Ryan has served as deputy president of SIE since January 2018, before being appointed CEO in February 2019.
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