Manager, Reporting and Financial Data Governance

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Title: Manager, Reporting and Financial Data Governance

Reports to: Senior Director, Accounting

Location: Santa Monica, CA

Your Platform

We’re headquartered in Santa Monica, California, housing multiple teams across many fields of Marketing, PR, Sales, Supply Chain and other corporate functions such as HR, IT, Legal, Facilities and Finance. Santa Monica is the nerve center of our company, where the best ideas combine with unrivaled rigor to create the biggest and best entertainment experiences in the world.

Your Mission

As a Manager, Reporting and Financial Data Governance, you will play a critical role in the Activision Blizzard controllership as well as the worldwide Finance Team.

You will be responsible for maintaining the integrity, consistency and governance of financial data used across accounting, reporting, planning and operational processes. This role partners closely with Accounting, FP&A, IT and Microsoft stakeholders to ensure financial data is structured consistently and supports evolving business and reporting requirements.

The ideal candidate brings a combination of accounting and financial reporting experience, data management skills, a process-oriented mindset, and the ability to partner effectively across Finance and IT teams.

Overall, this role is responsible for financial data governance, reporting structures, issue resolution, and process improvement within assigned areas of responsibility, while ensuring compliance with US GAAP accounting, reporting requirements, company policies, and internal controls.

What you bring to the table

Priorities can often change in a fast-paced environment like ours, so this role includes, but is not limited to, the following responsibilities:    

• Own financial master data and reporting structures, including chart of accounts, entities, cost centers, projects and reporting hierarchies.

• Define and maintain common financial data definitions and reporting attributes to support consistent reporting across financial platforms.

• Review and approve changes to financial master data and reporting structures to ensure consistency across Finance systems and reporting processes.

• Partner with accounting, FP&A, financial reporting, and IT teams to support new reporting requirements, organizational changes, and system initiatives.

• Investigate and resolve data, hierarchy, mapping and reporting issues impacting financial reporting and business processes.

• Support corporate reporting processes, including Transmit, through maintenance and validation of reporting structures, mappings, and underlying financial data.

Minimum Requirements

Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Information Systems or related field

• 8+ years of experience in accounting, financial reporting, finance systems, or related finance functions

• Experience supporting accounting close, financial reporting, management reporting or finance transformation initiatives

• Experience working with financial master data, reporting structures and hierarchies, or finance systems

• CPA preferred but not required

Skills & Attributes 

• Strong understanding of financial reporting, financial data structures, reporting hierarchies, and how financial data is used across reporting, planning and business processes

• Strong analytical, problem-solving and communication skills with the ability to investigate and resolve complex data and reporting issues

• Ability to balance business requirements with standardization, consistency and control objectives.

• Self-motivated with a continuous improvement mindset

• Experience with Oracle, PowerBI, SmartView, or similar tools is a plus

Our World

Activision Blizzard, Inc., is one of the world's largest and most successful interactive entertainment companies and is at the intersection of media, technology and entertainment. We are home to some of the most beloved entertainment franchises including Call of Duty®, World of Warcraft®, Overwatch®, Diablo®, Candy Crush™ and Bubble Witch™. Our combined entertainment network delights hundreds of millions of monthly active users in 196 countries, making us the largest gaming network on the planet!

Our ability to build immersive and innovative worlds is only enhanced by diverse teams working in an inclusive environment. We aspire to have a culture where everyone can thrive in order to connect and engage the world through epic entertainment. We provide a suite of benefits that promote physical, emotional and financial well-being for ‘Every World’ - we’ve got our employees covered!

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.

We love hearing from anyone who is enthusiastic about changing the games industry. Not sure you meet all qualifications? Let us decide! Research shows that women and members of other under-represented groups tend to not apply to jobs when they think they may not meet every qualification, when, in fact, they often do! We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment and strongly encourage you to apply.

We are committed to working with and providing reasonable assistance to individuals with physical and mental disabilities. If you are a disabled individual requiring an accommodation to apply for an open position, please email your request to accommodations@activisionblizzard.com. General employment questions cannot be accepted or processed here. Thank you for your interest.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status, among other characteristics.

Rewards

We provide a suite of benefits that promote physical, emotional and financial well-being for ‘Every World’ - we’ve got our employees covered!  Subject to eligibility requirements, the Company offers comprehensive benefits including:

• Medical, dental, vision, health savings account or health reimbursement account, healthcare spending accounts, dependent care spending accounts, life and AD&D insurance, disability insurance;
• 401(k) with Company match, tuition reimbursement, charitable donation matching;
• Paid holidays and vacation, paid sick time, floating holidays, compassion and bereavement leaves, parental leave;
• Mental health & wellbeing programs, fitness programs, free and discounted games, and a variety of other voluntary benefit programs like supplemental life & disability, legal service, ID protection, rental insurance, and others;
• If the Company requires that you move geographic locations for the job, then you may also be eligible for relocation assistance.

Eligibility to participate in these benefits may vary for part time and temporary full-time employees and interns with the Company.  You can learn more by visiting https://www.benefitsforeveryworld.com/.