Finance Business Partner, Roblox
Trust & Safety
$191.1-231.9k
+ Equity
More information about location
3-5 days a week in office (San Mateo, CA)
Online gaming & entertainment platform
Open for applications
Online gaming & entertainment platform
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$191.1-231.9k
+ Equity
More information about location
3-5 days a week in office (San Mateo, CA)
1001+ employees
Company mission
To connect a billion people with optimism and civility.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor's degree with major in economics or quantitative field (finance/accounting, math, science) or equivalent experience
- 5 or more years of experience in a finance-related or similar business role
- Prior experience in a public company is helpful
- Advanced skills for using Excel (can maintain complex spreadsheets) to analyze data
- Experience creating financial and operational models
- Proficient in using PowerPoint to communicate recommendations to team members and partners
- Experienced with SQL, Anaplan, Tableau or other BI tools
What the job involves
- Roblox is looking for a Finance Business Partner, Trust & Safety to join our Finance team, reporting to the Senior Manager, FP&A
- You will be leading finance support to the Trust and Safety team
- This cross functional role involves collaboration with Safety, Legal, and Infrastructure teams
- You will be supporting a variety of FP&A functions including short-term planning management, business partnering, financial modeling, and finance operations
- You will communicate, use analytical skills, and organize with several teams on multiple deliverables
- Support monthly financial cycles, including collaboration with Accounting at month-end and quarter-end, consolidation of budgets and reporting packages
- Review important financial metrics with senior leadership
- Provide leadership in identifying ad hoc or opportunistic discussions around our financial trends
- Leading many cross functional projects with Safety ops team on cost efficiencies and new product introductions by identifying opportunities/gaps, providing insights and solutions
- Consistently support various business decisions across the organization by surfacing spending trends, developing ROI analysis for new strategic initiatives and reporting financial and operational KPIs
- Develop a long range model (5 years) for customer support and moderation teams. Leverage this model tribute for quarterly and annual financial planning processes
- Collaborate with the safety data science team to develop key operational metrics around ticket backlog, agent utilization, automation etc. as well safety metrics like recall, abuse reports etc
- Partner with the Finance Data team to promote process efficiency and automation using Analytics tools and data management skills
- Manage projects across the FP&A team; work with Infra and other analysts to create several deliverables for finance and safety leadership
- Collaborate with other groups on company related systems and tools that affect the FP&A, Accounting, HR, Legal, and other G&A teams
Our take
Online gaming may be a well-established space, but Roblox has distinguished itself as a leader by empowering its community to build, share, and profit from their own creations - turning game development into an accessible, rewarding ecosystem for millions of users.
In addition to standard games, the platform offers virtual worlds and other experiences to explore and interact with. Its platform provides an online ecosystem for millions to create, socialize, chat, and explore immersive experiences with friends. In fact, in the US its used by two-thirds of children aged 9 to 12.
The platform has faced scrutiny over user safety, but responded by strengthen parental controls and launching initiatives like its "Parents Council". This move to address these issues, atop its strong financial performance and record payouts to developers, showcase Roblox's trajectory as one of innovation and impressive growth.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
25% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 9 rounds)
Jan 2021
$520m
SERIES H
Feb 2020
$150m
SERIES G
Total funding: $922.8m
Company HQ
South San Mateo, San Mateo, CA
Leadership
David Baszucki
(Founder & CEO)Studied Electrical Engineering at Stanford before founding Knowledge Revolution in 1990, where they spent 9 years as CEO. They worked as VP of MSC.Software for 2 years, and started Roblox in 2005.
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