Sr Financial Analyst
Sr Financial Analyst
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Why PlayStation
PlayStation isnt just the Best Place to Play its also the Best Place to Work. Today were recognized as a global leader in entertainment producing The PlayStation family of products and services including PlayStation5 PlayStation4 PlayStationVR PlayStationPlus acclaimed PlayStation software titles from PlayStation Studios and more.
PlayStation also strives to create an inclusive environment that empowers employees and embraces diversity. We welcome and encourage everyone who has a passion and curiosity for innovation technology and play to explore our open positions and join our growing global team.
The PlayStation brand falls under Sony Interactive Entertainment a whollyowned subsidiary of Sony Group Corporation.
Senior Financial Analyst
Austin TX (Collab/Hybrid)
As a part of Sony Interactive Entertainment PlayStation is leading the cloud gaming revolution putting consolequality video games on any device.
As a Senior Financial Analyst you are capable of handling the review analysis and approval of costs for the Software Technology & Operations Group. You enjoy facing new challenges and the sense of accomplishment from tackling them. Never a dull day a healthy mix of various projects ensures that the work is both challenging and fast paced.
Responsibilities:
Cost modeling and accounting:
Lead in managing improving and expanding our network cost models including but not limited to:
Compute cost models
Storage cost models
Colocation cost models & Datacenter cost allocations
Network cost models & allocations
Integrating these models for various services and network assets into our financial models & forecasts.
Expanding upon models/data to determine cost per instance hour/concurrent users/viewers or other metrics as may be required by finance & management.
Update the network forecast model to reflect new or changed services costs renewal terms etc.
Reconcile projectbased models and cost segregations against various teams capex budgets and ongoing spend.
Assist in providing adhoc summaries or breakdowns of various projects or subdivisions of budget and YTD spend provide to management and assist them with any inquries and review.
Budget controls:
Review mark and track spend via our procurement process to make sure purchase requests are aligned with budget items or if unbudgeted routed for approval and accounted for.
Assist in the planning & forecasting of such spend as necessary.
For items requiring additional tiers of approvals obtain information required to present and request spend to management committee.
Assist with preparing quarterly reviews of opex/capex spend by department and region for presentation in quarterly business reviews and/or crossfunctional team reviews.
Any other adhoc requests or cost modeling or cost accounting related tasks as required.
FP&A:
Manage improve and expand our budget cost models.
Analyze each regions monthly expenses to identify variances to forecast. Use this data to update dashboards for management review.
Assist in tracking down causes of variances to determine if budget or cost model requires updating or if action is required with our regional partners & vendors.
Identify errors and communicate necessary journal entries to accounting department.
Review monthly assetsinprogress and fixed asset files to group and mark assets according to project usable life and correct in service timing.
Reconcile against capex budget to always have the most uptodate spend vs budget figures for sharing and review with our functional and crossfunctional teams.
Review amortization schedule for license and support agreements to confirm treatment and values match appropriately.
Provide adhoc summaries or breakdowns of various projects or subdivisions of budget and YTD spend provide to management and assist them with any questions and review.
Liaise with regional Corporate Planning partners to assist each other with the review and analysis of their respective regions incurred costs and variances.
Any other adhoc requests or FP&A related tasks as required.
Skills and Knowledge:
BA/BS or equivalent with at least 5 years of relevant experience in accounting and/or finance roles.
Experience in: financial modeling cost accounting forecasting consolidation is preferred.
Experience in public accounting is preferred.
Experience in managing vendor relationships performance is a plus.
Must be extremely detail oriented analytical and results focused.
Strong excel skills are required.
Prior experience in networking cloud industry or related field is welcomed but not necessary.
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At SIE we consider several factors when setting each roles base pay range including the competitive benchmarking data for the market and geographic location.
Please note that the base pay range may vary in line with our hybrid working policy and individual base pay will be determined based on jobrelated factors which may include knowledge skills experience and location.
In addition this role is eligible for SIEs toptier benefits package that includes medical dental vision matching 401(k) paid time off wellness program and coveted employee discounts for Sony products. This role also may be eligible for a bonus package. Clickhere to learn more.
The estimated base pay range for this role is listed below.
$134200 $201400 USD
Equal Opportunity Statement:
Sony is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All persons will receive consideration for employment without regard to gender (including gender identity gender expression and gender reassignment) race (including colour nationality ethnic or national origin) religion or belief marital or civil partnership status disability age sexual orientation pregnancy maternity or parental status trade union membership or membership in any other legally protected category.
We strive to create an inclusive environment empower employees and embrace diversity. We encourage everyone to respond.
PlayStation is a Fair Chance employer and qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records will be considered for employment.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Employment Type
Full Time
