Senior Manager, FP&A – Lifestyle Entertainment Finance

Job Description

Senior Manager, FP&A – Lifestyle Entertainment | Electronic Arts

The Tone:
This is a full-time hybrid role at Electronic Arts, with locations in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada; Redwood City, California, United States of America; and Kirkland, Washington, United States of America. Electronic Arts creates next-level entertainment experiences that inspire players and fans around the world. This role is crucial for partnering with studio leadership to connect financial planning, business performance, and development strategy, ensuring profitable creativity through strong financial insight and decision support.

The TL;DR
• Role: Full Time
• Type: Hybrid
• Location: Hybrid, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada; Redwood City, California, United States of America; Kirkland, Washington, United States of America
• Pay: $133,500 – $186,400 CAD (British Columbia); $153,700 – $233,600 USD (California); $144,900 – $196,500 USD (Washington)
• Team: Leads the Lifestyle Entertainment Finance team, supporting The Sims franchise, Skate franchise, and Lifestyle Central Tech, reporting to the Director of FP&A.
• Mission: To connect financial planning, business performance, and development strategy for the Lifestyle Entertainment franchises.
• Tech Stack: Power BI, Tableau, Anaplan

What You’ll Actually Do
• Strategic Partnership: Serve as a strategic finance partner to studio, product, commercial, and finance leaders, influencing business decisions across franchise strategy, investment prioritization, resource allocation, and return on investment.
• Business Insights: Translate franchise economics, player behavior, monetization trends, KPIs, cost drivers, live services, and new product investments into clear insights and recommendations that support growth, profitability, and long-term business success.
• Financial Management: Own financial planning and performance management across supported franchises, including full P&L management, forecasting, close analysis, risks and opportunities, scenario analysis, and executive reporting.
• Team Leadership: Lead and coach the Lifestyle FP&A team, setting clear priorities, providing thoughtful guidance, and enabling high-quality decision support and strong business impact.
• Process Improvement: Enhance team productivity and impact through prioritization, simplification, automation, standardization, and thoughtful change management.

The Must-Haves
• Background: Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business, or a related field; manages a team within FP&A.
• Experience: 8+ years of experience in FP&A, strategic finance, investment analysis, corporate finance, or a related field, including experience mentoring and coaching a high-performing team.
• Skills: Financial modeling, driver-based forecasting, scenario analysis, business case development, full P&L management, solid foundation of accounting principles and GAAP, Power BI, Tableau, planning tools such as Anaplan.
• Bonus: Gaming or entertainment experience beneficial.