Sr. Financial Analyst

Why PlayStation?

PlayStation isn’t just the Best Place to Play — it’s also the Best Place to Work. Today, we’re recognized as a global leader in entertainment producing The PlayStation family of products and services including PlayStation®5, PlayStation®4, PlayStation®VR, PlayStation®Plus, 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 wholly-owned 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 console-quality 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 project-based models and cost segregations against various teams’ capex budgets and ongoing spend. 

• Assist in providing ad-hoc 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 cross-functional team reviews. 

• Any other ad-hoc 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 assets-in-progress 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 up-to-date spend vs budget figures for sharing and review with our functional and cross-functional teams. 

• Review amortization schedule for license and support agreements, to confirm treatment and values match appropriately. 

• Provide ad-hoc 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’ incurre