Job Title:

Supervisor, North America Accounting Operations

Requisition ID:

R023797

Job Description:

Job Title: Supervisor, North America Accounting Operations

Reporting To: Director, North America Accounting Operations

Department: Accounting

Location: Redmond, WA, Atlanta, GA OR Playa Vista, CA

Your Mission

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

We are seeking a highly driven, innovative, and hard-working Supervisor, 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. We are a distributed 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 Supervisor, Accounting Operations role, you will govern accounting operations with ABK collaborators and external suppliers to achieve exceptional results aligned with our organization’s priorities. You will proactively develop solutions, support others through cross-group collaboration, and implement to accounting policies focused on timeliness, accuracy, compliance, and risk management. The ideal candidate demonstrates thought leadership, a consistent record in business partnering, leading end-to-end processes, collaboration skills, influence, and a validated background in accounting close and financial reporting activities, including compliance.

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.

Core Job Responsibilities:

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, and other financial reporting in compliance with ABK accounting policies and guidelines.
• Supervise Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and Service Level Agreement (SLA) metrics for accuracy and compliance.
• Research, review, and document accounting standards, guidelines, and policies. Field sophisticated questions from business partners in alignment with accounting policies.
• Conduct P&L and BS analysis and respond to inquiries from business and finance partners regarding actuals.

Issue Resolution and Support

• Investigate and resolve business partner inquiries, accounting deviations, and other anomalies.
• Serve as a partner concern point of contact to resolve sophisticated issues when governing vendors in a shared services environment. Facilitate issue resolution with leadership, business partners, team members, and vendor leadership.
• Provide sophisticated support and troubleshooting to users. Investigate and resolve business partner inquiries, accounting deviations, and other data anomalies.

Process Improvement and Optimization

• Implement and complete standard, global processes for key business activities.
• Handle continuous improvement in execution and identify process optimization and/or automation opportunities by evaluating and demonstrating technology to enhance internal processes.
• Act as a trusted advisor by sharing subject matter expertise across multiple functions.

Requirements & Experiences

Education and Experience

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience in Business, Accounting /Finance, or related field AND 5+ years accounting or finance experience
• OR Master's Degree or equivalent experience in Business, Accounting /Finance, or related field AND 3+ year(s) accounting or finance experience
• Professional accounting certification such as CPA or equivalent, a plus

Skills and Expertise

• Accounting close/financial reporting experience
• Influence without authority and drive accountability
• Collaboration and business partnership
• Strong verbal and written communication
• Problem solving skills and root cause analysis with resolution
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and organizational skills.
• Experience in Oracle, Answers OBIEE and/or Smartview is a plus

Our World

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 innovate worlds is only enhanced by diverse teams working in an inclusive environment. We aspire to have a culture where everyone can thrive in order to connect and engage the world through epic entertainment. We provide a suite of benefits that promote physical, emotional and financial well-being for ‘Every World’ - we’ve got our employees covered!

The videogame industry and therefore our business is fast-paced and will continue to evolve. As such, the duties and responsibilities of this role may be changed as advised by the Company at any time to promote and support our business and relationships with industry partners.

Activision is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, protected veteran status, or any other basis protected by applicable law and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.

Rewards

We provide a suite of benefits that promote physical, emotional and financial well-being for ‘Every World’ - we’ve got our employees covered!  Subject to eligibility requirements, the Company offers comprehensive benefits including:

• Medical, dental, vision, health savings account or health reimbursement account, healthcare spending accounts, dependent care spending accounts, life and AD&D insurance, disability insurance;
• 401(k) with Company match, tuition reimbursement, charitable donation matching;
• Paid holidays and vacation, paid sick time, floating holidays, compassion and bereavement leaves, parental leave;
• Mental health & wellbeing programs, fitness programs, free and discounted games, and a variety of other voluntary benefit programs like supplemental life & disability, legal service, ID protection, rental insurance, and others;
• If the Company requires that you move geographic locations for the job, then you may also be eligible for relocation assistance.

Eligibility to participate in these benefits may vary for part time and temporary full-time employees and interns with the Company.  You can learn more by visiting https://www.benefitsforeveryworld.com/.

In the U.S., the standard base pay range for this role is $72,720.00 - $134,460.00 Annual. These values reflect the expected base pay range of new hires across all U.S. locations. Ultimately, your specific range and offer will be based on several factors, including relevant experience, performance, and work location. Your Talent Professional can share this role’s range details for your local geography during the hiring process. In addition to a competitive base pay, employees in this role may be eligible for incentive compensation. Incentive compensation is not guaranteed. While we strive to provide competitive offers to successful candidates, new hire compensation is negotiable.