Senior Accountant, Revenue Accounting & Analysis - Activision - Santa Monica, CA

Senior Accountant, Revenue Accounting & Analysis - Activision - Santa Monica, CA -

Sr. Accountant, Revenue Accounting & Analysis

Job description

The Sr. Accountant, Revenue Accounting & Analysis is chargeable for performing month-finish income recognition duties in accordance with US GAAP, and making certain compliance with firm insurance policies and SOX. The individual will put together journal entries, buyer billings, and carry out duties within the automated Revenue Administration system with a view to keep the overall ledger (GL) of Activision Blizzard, with main concentrate on licensing and digital revenues. The place may also assist to develop and keep accounting procedures, full account reconciliations, carry out evaluation, and help with audit requests.

The place requires working intently with Company Accounting, Administration Reporting, Exterior Reporting, Senior Administration, Exterior Auditors, Enterprise Models, and different monetary groups, so as to meet reporting deadlines and supply crucial and recurring evaluation to assist management determination-making. This individual might be challenged to use essential considering and analytical expertise together with disciplined venture management expertise to satisfy tight deadlines and evolving enterprise wants.

This chance will attraction to somebody who thrives in a quick paced, rising firm. The perfect candidate is a palms-on strategic particular person who’s completely happy to roll-up their sleeves and relates properly with all ranges of management. The power to multi-process and assume outdoors the field is a should for this place. The candidate should have the ability to work properly independently in addition to in a extremely collaborative staff surroundings.

Duties embrace (however not restricted to) the next:
Licensing and Digital Revenues

Liable for correct and well timed reserving and recognition of our digital and licensing revenues.

Work intently with numerous Distribution Companions, in addition to inner Digital Finance and Gross sales groups to make sure well timed reporting of sales knowledge, using instruments similar to Entry and Excel to allocate and summarize giant volumes of knowledge and report month-to-month accruals / true-ups.

Evaluation and doc phrases of latest digital distribution and licensing agreements, assess correct income recognition remedy in accordance with US GAAP and firm coverage.

Handle and assessment digital distribution and licensing statements, making certain well timed and correct reporting, calculations and funds, in accordance with the phrases of every settlement.

Coordinate with AR group to make sure well timed billing and assortment, and accuracy of GL coding.

Put together and keep schedules for all deferred licensing revenues.

Keep present detailed digital income schedules and create customized income reviews as wanted.

Interval Shut and Forecast Cycle Actions

Put together routine and non-routine journal entries, allocations, and changes to make sure correct recognition of income in help of the interval finish shut actions.

Full common ledger reconciliations and comply with-up on excellent reconciling gadgets.

Compile presentation supplies for inner management reporting.

Analyze income outcomes in comparison with AOP, forecast and historic tendencies.

Work with numerous cross practical groups relating to requests/inquiries on proposed or present income transactions.

Develop and keep robust inner controls over income transactions and reporting. Advocate modifications to stories and processes to enhance productiveness and accuracy.

Help the exterior audit staff to make sure all info is offered in a well timed and correct method throughout quarterly critiques and annual audit. Put together audit schedules to make sure all licensing and digital income associated questions are successfully addressed.

Particular Tasks

Take part in particular tasks and advocate and implement improved insurance policies and procedures to make sure income and bills are appropriately recorded.

Help with testing of upgrades and/or enhancements to international ERP system.

Crosstrain on different income-associated duties together with processing income deferrals, knowledge gathering and evaluation of retail channel promote-through models, preparation of Non-GAAP to GAAP reconciliation schedules, and so on.

Different duties as assigned.

Qualifications

B.A./B.S. in Accounting

Minimal of four years of professional accounting with expertise in income recognition.

Superior proficiency in Excel and Entry is required.

Expertise with Oracle eBusiness Suite is required. Expertise with Revstream Revenue Supervisor, OBIEE Solutions and Hyperion Essbase is a plus.

Should possess robust analytical expertise with capacity to drawback remedy.

Have to be extremely organized and capable of cope with a excessive quantity of knowledge.

Potential to work proactively and independently and with a staff in a quick-paced, excessive progress setting.

Should possess robust work ethic and prepared to work additional hours and weekends throughout quarter-finish and yr-finish closes with a view to meet deadlines.

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