Financial Analyst, America's Commercial Organization

Requisition Number: 162796

Position Title: Financial Analyst

External Description:

The CFO organization comprises a broad group of finance disciplines, with the common goal of partnering with business teams delivering strategies and providing our players with amazing experiences. Our finance teams assist the business in achieving profitable creativity by proving financial insight, reporting and guidance.

We use progressive tools to analyze and visualize data, telling the story of financial drivers, performance, risks and opportunities. We value attributes like collaboration and learning. We celebrate diversity and inclusion by creating a place where you can come to work and be yourself.

Role Overview:

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 guide EA’s performance.

The Americas Commercial Organization (ACO) Financial Analyst will be responsible for finance support (budget, forecast, reporting, and other financial modeling) on the full ACO P&L (revenue, margin and opex) and HD Commercial Strategic Planning for Maxis titles. To deliver these responsibilities, the FA will partner with business groups including ACO business partners, Commercial Teams, Accounting and Corporate FP&A. You will report to the ACO Finance Manager and will be based in either Vancouver, Austin, or Orlando.

What You’ll Do:

• Business Partnering
• Build relationships with partners and actively collaborate to work towards meeting financial and business objectives and enabling business owners’ success
• Support business reviews with materials focused on the story (not just data) with clear and relevant insights
• Drive results by partnering on business-related projects such as modeling business scenarios and tracking performance metrics 
• Financial Close, Forecasting, Reporting and Analysis
• Manage the operating budgets of ACO and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) teams and provide deep support on revenue forecasting
• Provide financial analysis and recommendations on spend, resourcing, and commercial opportunities
• Partner with the Accounting group to manage Close deliverables, timelines, process and reporting
• Partner with multiple teams to ensure understanding across Finance and Business owners
• Design and implement reporting tools 
• Drive FP&A Excellence
• Identify and lead projects to continuously improve, standardize and automate forecasting and reporting tools and processes
• Challenge status quo and provide alternative solutions

Who You Are:

• Ability to handle multiple and competing priorities, meet tight deadlines, and to thrive in a fast-paced environment with high degree of change
• Ability to work with ambiguity and independence
• Able to work collaboratively, within the group across teams/functions as a specialist and partner 

Preferred Experience and Technical Skills

• Bachelor’s degree
• 2+ years of related financial experience, revenue knowledge a plus
• Experience with P&L management, budgeting, forecasting, reporting and analysis
• Proficiency in Accounting and general GAAP knowledge
• Excellent MS Excel and PowerPoint expertise required, knowledge in Hyperion Essbase, Tableau and Oracle a plus

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Community / Marketing Title: Financial Analyst, America's Commercial Organization

Company Profile:

We are a global team of creators, storytellers, technologists, experience originators, innovators and so much more. We believe amazing games and experiences start with teams as diverse as the players and communities we serve. At Electronic Arts, the only limit is your imagination.

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About Electronic Arts

Everything we do is designed to inspire the world to play. Through our cutting-edge games, innovative services, and powerful technologies, we bring worlds with infinite possibilities to millions of players and fans around the globe.

We’re looking for collaborative and inclusive people with diverse perspectives who will enrich our culture and challenge us. We take a holistic approach with our benefits program, focusing on physical, emotional, financial, career, and community wellness to support our people through every chapter of life. We provide comprehensive benefit packages and support for a balanced life with paid time off and new parent leave, plus free games and so much more. Our goal is to provide a safe and respectful workplace that empowers you to thrive in both work and life.

Electronic Arts is an equal opportunity employer. All employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, genetic information, religion, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, marital status, family status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We will also consider employment qualified applicants with criminal records in accordance with applicable law. EA also makes workplace accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities as required by applicable law.

Days Open: 53

Can this position be remote?:

EEO Employer Verbiage:

About Electronic Arts

Everything we do is designed to inspire the world to play. Through our cutting-edge games, innovative services, and powerful technologies, we bring worlds with infinite possibilities to millions of players and fans around the globe.

We’re looking for collaborative and inclusive people with diverse perspectives who will enrich our culture and challenge us. We take a holistic approach with our benefits program, focusing on physical, emotional, financial, career, and community wellness to support our people through every chapter of life. We provide comprehensive benefit packages and support for a balanced life with paid time off and new parent leave, plus free games and so much more. Our goal is to provide a safe and respectful workplace that empowers you to thrive in both work and life.

Electronic Arts is an equal opportunity employer. All employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, genetic information, religion, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, marital status, family status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We will also consider employment qualified applicants with criminal records in accordance with applicable law. EA also makes workplace accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities as required by applicable law.