Sr. Financial Analyst

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 include the following: 

• 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 inquires and review. 

• Determine standard and actual costing of services and the overhead involved. 

• FP&A: 

• Analyze monthly expenses from each team and region within the business unit, to identify variances to forecast.  Use this data to update dashboards for management review and to provide commentary each month/quarter/year. 

• Track 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 if necessary. 

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

• 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’ incurred costs and variances. 

• Manage, improve, and expand our budget cost models/templates. 

• 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. 

• Any other ad-hoc requests or FP&A related tasks as required. 

• 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. 

Skills and Knowledge: 

• BA/BS or equivalent with at least 5 years of relevant experience in accounting and/or finance roles. 

• Experience in: financial modeling, cost accounting, forecasting, consolidation, is preferred. 

• Prior experience in networking, cloud industry or related field is preferred but not necessary. 

• Experience in public accounting, is preferred. 

• Must be extremely detail oriented, analytical and results focused.  

• Advanced excel skills, are required. 

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