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You will be reporting to the Automation Engineer, Financial Analytics.
The challenge ahead: Come act with the curiosity and courage it takes to experiment and lead. Partner with finance and IT teams at EA not just as an important support resource, but also as a “trusted advisor” and a “strategic”. We use and are developing progressive tools to help our Finance teams to analyse and visualise data, telling the story of financial drivers, performance, risks, and opportunities. We value attributes like collaboration and learning.
Role Overview:
Finance plays an important role managing our financial performance. The Financial Systems & Analytics (FS&A) team guides the tools, data and culture for the Finance team to help EA achieve its strategic goals through efficient planning, analysis, decision support and performance management.
This position is for a passionate systems senior analyst to support the develop and support/maintenance of financial systems that are used across the finance organization
Responsibilities:
- Be a SME for our principal financial forecasting and reporting systems (Anaplan and Power BI) and provide user support, training and knowledge sharing to multiple finance teams.
- You will Lead efforts in driving system enhancement and issue resolution for our financial reporting systems from brainstorming through implementation and stabilization.
- You will foster collaboration and lead process and system improvements in partnership with the Financial Systems and Analytics team, and partners across the Finance and IT teams.
- Develop training material for EA’s Financial reporting systems.
- Manage processes surrounding the facilitation of EA’s quarterly financial forecasts to ensure compliance with policies, procedures, and controls.
- Work as part of a small team to lead the data validation process and participate in the approval process on Total EA forecast scenarios lock.
- Collaborate with teams to assist strategizing the long-term roadmap of EA’s finance tech ecosystem.
- Collaborate on Proof-of-Concept activities managed through the Financial Systems and Analytics team to build the future toolset for our Finance teams
- Display a passion for data quality and consistency, and work with business and IT teams to help to organize and standardize this data, and with Finance teams to build a data culture within these groups
EA's next great Senior Financial Systems Analyst needs to have:
- Bachelor's degree with a preference for Data Analytics, Management Information Systems, Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Finance, or Accounting
- 5+ years' experience in finance, accounting or business analytics supporting a technology organization.
Technical
- Experience with Business Intelligence and visualization tools such as Power BI or Tableau, VBA, SQL.
- Expertise in Excel (can write advanced macros)
- Experience with Oracle and Anaplan
- Data modelling and analytics
Experience with the following:
- Visual Basic for Applications (VBA)
- Structured Query Language (SQL)
- Python or R