Collaborate to drive the financial integration process:

• Hierarchy Creation – Partner with integration team to develop and implement a hierarchy for Activision in the Microsoft financial systems that will allow clear reporting lines for financial views and headcount management.
• Financial Report Creation – Build a clear process to review and consolidate the financials of a large-scale business to provide financial analysis to meet the rhythm of business deadlines.
• Integration Planning- Partner with the broader Microsoft integration team across all financial areas to drive the successful integration of the Activision business.

Contribute to the finance rhythm of the business (ROB) processes:

• Business Planning- Contribute to the monthly close, quarterly forecasts, annual budgeting, and long-range planning for ABK in alignment with Corporate and EDM timelines.
• Business Partnership and Communication- Influence others via persuasive communication, effective data visualization and storytelling. Partner with ABK finance leaders to accurately reflect generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) financial results and inform leaders of business trends (Non-GAAP reporting & metrics.)
• Reporting- Provide accurate and timely information to business partners including insights and actionable recommendations for investment decisions. Responsible for both written and verbal monthly financial reporting to Gaming finance and business teams.
• Transactional Reliability- Use Microsoft accounting taxonomy and have a detail-oriented approach for managing transactions to make sure information is accurate in our financial systems. Ensure the general ledger is accurate each month.
• Master Data Management- Understand data sources across Microsoft information systems and hierarchies to be able to generate and create analysis multiple products P&Ls.

Guarantee a compliance first mindset:

• General accounting – Understand and use the appropriate GAAP and Microsoft accounting policies and procedures.
• Understand and apply Microsoft Policy- Advise the business on the financial policies by combining business knowledge and understanding of Microsoft policies.

The successful candidate will have:

• A desire to partner with and learn from the game studios
• Analytical and problem-solving skills
• Ability to drive results through partnership and collaboration with others in a team environment
• Experience on successfully influencing at all levels of an organization
• Results driven with organizational skills including ability to multi-task