Manager, Reporting and Financial Data Governance

Title
:
Manager, Reporting and Financial Data Governance

Reports to
:
Senior Director, Accounting

Location
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Santa Monica, CA

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.

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.

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.

• 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

• 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, Smart View, or similar tools is a plus

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…