As the Head of Finance within the EA SPORTS & Racing business unit, you will lead a portfolio of internal studios and external partners, across all financial elements. EA SPORTS & Racing is the home of our key franchises including FIFA, F1, Need for Speed, Madden, and NHL to name a few and is supported by over 2,300 employees across multiple studio locations worldwide. You will report to the SVP, Portfolio FP&A, Real Estate and Physical Security.
Role Overview
- Strategic finance leader who will lead interaction and partnership on delivering the EA Mobile strategy
- Oversee the future business and financial framework for EA SPORTS & Racing
- Provide strategic advice and partnership to all studios, teams, and executive leadership.
- You will lead all EA SPORTS & Racing financial planning processes, building efficiencies, and streamlining deliverables
- Set goals across all major titles and projects with full P&L ownership
- You will oversee all ad-hoc financial analysis to support the business and partners
Major Functions and Related Activities
- Use tailored diagnostics, to monitor the business, de-risk, and balance priorities to achieve financial goals
- Lead financial modeling and decision support for key license investments across the portfolio
- You will align cross functional P&L partners on the return of investments
- Set and manage budgets across all projects and investments.
- Lead decision support, through accurate analysis and ad-hoc projects to improve performance.
- Manage New IP / Greenlight incubation process
Team Management
- Recruit and mentor a high performing team, both onshore and offshore
- Influence, motivate and collaborate with partners
- Create a center of excellence and implement best practices, processes, and standards
Qualifications
- 15 or more years' experience in senior finance roles
- A people leader invested in the team's success and building an inclusive environment
- You are comfortable operating within a dynamic business environment and can resolve complex business issues
- You can build trust, diverse relationships, and can move beyond reporting to synthesis and insight
- Preference for experience within game development, with in-depth knowledge of Finance
- Experienced in evaluating performance metrics and implementing action plans
- You can coordinate processes to work at scale across a distributed team.
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We realize it takes outstanding people to make world-class games, we offer great compensation packages and a culture that grows from creativity and individuality. We love to celebrate our great perks like comprehensive health and benefit packages, tuition reimbursement, 401k with company match, free video games and more!