Senior Manager, North America Accounting Ops

Job Title:

Senior Manager, North America Accounting Ops

Requisition ID:

R024478

Job Description:

Your Platform

Activision Blizzard plays a centralized role in the creation of epic entertainment by supporting our interactive gaming brands and studios with a diverse range of career opportunities across corporate functions such as Marketing, Communications, Legal, Human Resources, Finance and Supply Chain. Located in our global headquarters in Playa Vista, we encompass equal parts agility, creativity and rigor to enhance the employee and player experience. To learn more, check us out at www.activisionblizzard.com or on Twitter at @ATVI_AB.

Your Mission

Come join an organization that empowers our stakeholders to achieve more through trusted services that ensure accuracy, timeliness, privacy, and accessibility!

We are seeking a highly driven, innovative, and passionate Senior Manager, Accounting Operations to join the Accounting Operations team inside Finance Operations. Accounting Operations provides large-scale, global accounting support for financial close, reporting, statutory compliance, and audit for over 300 ABK/Microsoft legal entities and lines of business. We are a global team with staff and delivery centers around the world. Accounting Operations is continuously expanding its scope, evolving operating models with intelligent automation, innovative processes, and offering cost efficient solutions for ABK. We strive to provide end-to-end experiences for our customers with built-in compliance and intelligent insights.

As the Senior Manager, you  will oversee the accounting close processes, compliance, and governance through a business process outsourcing (BPO) model. This role ensures business continuity, accurate financial reporting, and adherence to Company policies, while providing thought leadership and help support alignment of team priorities with organizational strategy. Engaging with stakeholders across the organization, you will drive and/or support efforts on continuous improvement, enhance operational efficiency, and support business goals with strategic insights.
 
ABK’s mission is to empower every person and every organization to achieve more. With a growth mindset, we innovate, collaborate, and uphold values of respect, integrity, and accountability fostering a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive. In alignment with our ABK values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day.

Responsibilities include (but are not limited to the following):

Governance and Compliance

• Conduct governance of vendor teams performing Accounting Operations activities, including preparation and review of financial close journal entries, balance sheet account reconciliations, analytical reviews, and other financial reporting in compliance with ABK accounting policies and guidelines.

• Monitor Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and Service Level Agreement (SLA) metrics for accuracy and compliance.

• Lead business operation team, partnering with ABK P2P teams to support business stakeholders effectively.

• Research, review, and document accounting standards, guidelines, and policies. Field complex questions from business partners in alignment with accounting policies.

• Perform in-depth P&L and BS analysis and respond to inquiries from business and finance partners regarding actual financial performance.

Issue Resolution and Support

• Investigate and resolve business partner inquiries, accounting deviations, and other anomalies.

• Serve as an escalation point of contact to resolve complex issues when governing vendors in a shared services environment. Facilitate issue resolution with leadership, business partners, team members, and vendor leadership.

• Provide advanced support and troubleshooting to users. Investigate and resolve business partner inquiries, accounting deviations, and other data anomalies.

• Collaborate with the Technical Accounting team to ensure consistent accounting practices across different regions.

Compliance and Reporting

• Partner with the IA and SOX teams to ensure robust controls are in place for all accounting processes.

• Take a leading role in SOX compliance for global accounting operations, overseeing and reviewing