FP&A Senior Analyst, EMEA - Fixed term contract

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Job Title: EMEA FP&A Senior Analyst (maternity cover)

Reporting To: EMEA FP&A Director

Department: Finance

Contract Term: Fixed-Term (12 months)

Location: London

Your Mission

This is a great opportunity to be part of a dynamic team working on some of the most iconic franchises in video games. This role contributes to the success of our goals by combining budget management with analysis to drive business decisions.

There are two parts to this role. The first part is to work with the central marketing teams to manage EMEA budgets of over $10m for marketing retainer fees (media, production, social agencies and PR agencies), and to contribute to the finance team managing a total marketing budget across all franchises of over $100m. You will maintain a tracker for the total spend, and will need to work closely with the functional marketing team heads and other members of the FP&A team to deliver reliable cost forecasts and reviews of actuals versus forecast.

The second part of the role is to be the EMEA Finance Lead on the Diablo franchise. You will support the EMEA Diablo team with the financial analysis and reporting that they require. This will involve working with the Business Insights team to produce weekly reporting tailored to the needs of the team, and to present this each week at the cross-functional meeting. You will track sales, reviewing results versus forecast, and identifying reasons for variances. You will support the Diablo team with requests for analysis, e.g. on questions of pricing or performance by territory. Helping the marketing teams to manage the Diablo marketing budget will be another important part of this role.

This role includes, but is not limited to, the following tasks/duties:

• For the Annual Operating Plan for 2023 (work beginning around November): work with the marketing teams to understand their requirements for retainer fees and relay this information to global finance so that it is reflected in the financial system.
• Review forecasts and Annual Operating plan revenue and cost figures loaded by the global team, and challenge them where appropriate. Update the EMEA team on the key features of these forecasts through quarterly presentations and other informal meetings.
• Prepare risks and opportunities versus forecast and identify early opportunities of underspend / reallocation of costs between teams.
• Enhance reporting and forecasting processes and reporting packs to improve accuracy, visibility, understanding and control over costs performance for the EMEA business.
• Manage retainer fee budgets, and the Diablo marketing budget, directly with the various marketing teams. Explain variances and drive forecast accuracy.
• Co-ordinate reviews of marketing spend through the year, making sure that costs are correctly reflected and that all teams have visibility of spend versus budget.
• Deliver Return On Investment analysis on our spends where possible, as well as recommendations on how to optimise our marketing spend.
• Lead and deliver finance process improvement projects. Specifically, this will include improving the quality and provision of cost information to functional teams across EMEA to give greater visibility and control over actual, forecasts and AOP.
• Meet regularly with the global finance team to keep updated about plans for the franchise.
• Month / Quarter end close - preparation and posting of accounting journals for missing retainer fee / Diablo costs and mass allocations of costs across products and territories.
• Work with the media team to manage receipt of media credits (Annual Volume Bonus and credits for unspent media) and address any ad-hoc requests

Player Profile

• Educated to degree level or equivalent experience
• Experience of working with marketing teams to manage budgets
• Highly analytical, precise, detail oriented and well organized
• Ability to deal and liaise with colleagues at all levels within Activision Blizzard
• Ability to work independently under tight deadlines, manage different tasks at the same time and set priorities appropriately
• Excellent system skills (Excel, Oracle, Essbase)
• Excellent written and oral communication in English
• Adherence to deadlines
• Ability to confidently summarise and present.
• Team player, sociable, interacts with co-workers well

Our World

Our mission, to connect and engage the world through epic entertainment has never been more important. Through communities rooted in our video game franchises we enable hundreds of millions of people to experience joy, thrill and achievement. We enable social connections through the lens of fun, and we foster purpose and a sense of accomplishment through healthy competition. Like sport, but with greater accessibility, our players can find purpose and meaning through competitive gaming. Video games, unlike any other social or entertainment media, have the ability to break down the barriers that can inhibit tolerance and understanding. Celebrating differences is at the core of our culture and ensures we can create games for players of diverse backgrounds in the 190 countries our games are played.

As a member of the Fortune 500 and as a component company of the S&P 500, we have an extraordinary track record of delivering superior shareholder returns for over 30 years.

Our enduring franchises are some of the world’s most popular, including Call of Duty®, Crash BandicootTM, World of Warcraft®, Overwatch®, Hearthstone®, Diablo®, StarCraft®, Candy CrushTM, Bubble WitchTM, Pet RescueTM and Farm HeroesTM. Our sustained success has enabled the company to support corporate social responsibility initiatives that are directly tied to our franchises. As an example, our Call of Duty Endowment has helped find employment for over 80,000 veterans.

Learn more information about Activision Blizzard and how we connect and engage the world through epic entertainment on the company's website, www.activisionblizzard.com.

The videogame industry and therefore our business is fast-paced and will continue to evolve. As such, the duties and responsibilities of this role may be changed as directed by the Company at any time to promote and support our business and relationships with industry partners.

Activision is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, protected veteran status, or any other basis protected by applicable law and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.