Senior Financial Analyst

Company: 2K
Location: Novato
Posted on: June 14, 2022

Job Description:

Who We Are

2K has been a major console and PC game developer and publisher for several console generations and is known for bringing amazing IP to the market, including some of today's most well-known and critically acclaimed franchises like: NBA 2K, WWE 2K, Mafia, Bioshock, Borderlands, XCOM and Sid Meier's Civilization.

What We Need

As a Sr Finance Analyst, you will serve as a key interface between Finance and the rest of the business. This role will pair closely with our Commercial and Analytics teams.

This is a highly transparent role where you will be providing financial and operational analyses and reporting to key stakeholders that will influence business decisions. In addition to outstanding technical prowess, a candidate for this role must exhibit outstanding attention to detail and commercial awareness.

Job Responsibilities Will Include

• Partner with the business team to handle revenue and contra-revenue related to all sales activities for retail and digital sales and provide transparency to divisional and finance leadership; maintain in-depth a full P&L forecasting and reporting, track actuals and predict future financial performance
• Provide timely, relevant and accurate weekly & monthly reporting & analysis of results against historical, budgeted and forecast data for commercial areas to facilitate and influence decision-making
• Partner with Commercial and Sales teams to handle monthly forecast process and to identify and analyze opportunities and risks to P/L goals. Help to ensure that business performance is clear and the drivers of performance are understood, including sales trends, promotional calendars and external competitor analysis
• Handle forecast data loads and validation to ensure plan data accuracy
• Analyze retailer weekly sales and promotion performance including retailer rebate and price protection programs
• Build and maintain dashboards that tie back to business and product goals
• Maintain release schedule and related metadata
• Collaborate closely with internal 2K finance teams on all commercial revenue related areas
• Distilling large amounts of data into practical insights, using financial and operational database systems
• Conduct ad hoc analysis and provide an insightful use of financial analysis techniques, tools, concepts and models, for business partners to support decision making
• Assist in month-end closing working in partnership with centralized accounting teams
• Develop a proficiency in and a business understanding of all of 2K's financial systems and data sources and an understanding and working knowledge of 2K financial processes, accounting principles and internal controls
  Who We Think Will Be A Great Fit
  
  • Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance or a Business related field
  • Minimum of 4-6 years of FP&A, Corporate Finance, or Sales Planning
  • Experience with large data sets and sophisticated models,
  • Must have very strong MS Excel skills
  • Strong experience with planning systems (Hyperion/Essbase preferred)
  • Exposure to business planning and intelligence tools including Anaplan, Tableau and OBI
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills
  • Strong organizational skills and attention to detail with flexibility to work across different tasks
  • Strong work ethic; can-do attitude and a high sense of urgency; ability to learn and deliver results in tight timeline
  • Proven financial or analytical experience with strong forecasting, budgeting, and variance analysis acumen
    Please note that 2K Games and its studios never uses instant messaging apps or personal email accounts to contact prospective employees or conduct interviews and when emailing, only use 2K.com accounts.

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