Blizzard Jobs – Global Workplace Expert Analyst

Job Description:

The ABK Workplace Organization is part of Activision’s CAO Organization and is responsible for delivering excellence through safe, cost effective real estate strategies and services. With a portfolio of over x million sq. ft. across the globe, Activision’s workplace is a critical to delivering on the company’s strategic goals while serving as a destination for employee collaboration and productivity.

Job Responsibilities:

• Support of culture of data-driven decision making through enhanced governance and analytics.
• Perform portfolio analytics globally across ABK for Workplace – design, develop and promote use of reporting, dashboards, and metrics to provide effective oversight of ABK’s portfolio.
• Manage and track all changes to maintain data integrity.
• Preparation and publishing of monthly strategic reports.
• Liaise with finance to ensure costs are monitored and controlled.
• Maintain best practices for financial and other data analytics and forecasting.
• Ensure compliance with internal financial procedures.
• Develop financial models and business cases for critical decisions, including post-approval tracking through completion.
• Assist team with building financial models to evaluate properties and portfolios under various scenarios and to assess the viability of various capital proposals.
• Manage ABK’s global data on leases, projects and operations producing monthly reports that identify performance to plan and efficiency opportunities.
• Partner with global and regional management teams to ensure alignment of financial and portfolio data.
• Identify efficiencies and opportunities for cost reduction and/or service improvement within the budget.

Job Requirements:

• Working knowledge of principles and practices of project management
• Knowledge of accounting, Strong capabilities in financial modelling
• Deliver a range of analysis activities – data extraction, analysis, and recommendations
• Ability to communicate information and concepts clearly and logically, setting time specific and achievable expectations at all levels of the organization
• Proficient in the use of Tableau
• Previous working knowledge of Google Big Query / Google Cloud Platform
• Ability to work both independently and cooperatively in a fast-paced environment
• Working Knowledge of SQL
• Effectively problem solve and resolve a variety of issues and topics within the job scope
• Understanding of the whole property life cycle.
• Proactive in identifying improvement opportunities and helping the team understand the best way to achieve goals.
• Advanced Excel / Google Sheets
• Previous knowledge of Co Star
• Excellent knowledge of MS Office / Google Suite
• Excellent interpersonal, verbal and written communications skills including strong grammatical skills

Qualification & Experience:

• Experience to influence and direct teams remotely
• Previous experience in similar role
• Technical / systems knowledge, experience and capabilities required with direct exposure to Real Estate and Facilities Data systems (e.g. Co Star & JIRA), database management and reporting tools (e.g. Tableau, Looker, QlikView, Qlik Sense,)
• Qualified Accountant is desirable (CIMA / ACCA / ACA / CA etc.)

Job Details:

Company: Blizzard

Vacancy Type: Full Time

Job Location: Buffalo, NY, US

Application Deadline: N/A

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