Strategic Finance Analyst
Hong Kong
Animoca Brands Limited – Finance & Accounting /
Full Time Employee /
On-site
Animoca Brands, a Deloitte Tech Fast winner and ranked in the Financial Times list of High Growth Companies Asia-Pacific 2021, is a leader in digital entertainment, blockchain, and gamification that is working to advance digital property rights. It develops and publishes a broad portfolio of products including the REVV token and SAND token; original games including The Sandbox, Crazy Kings, and Crazy Defense Heroes; and products utilizing popular intellectual properties including Disney, WWE, Snoop Dogg, The Walking Dead, Power Rangers, MotoGP™, and Formula E. The company has multiple subsidiaries, including The Sandbox, Blowfish Studios, Quidd, GAMEE, nWay, Pixowl, Forj, Lympo, Grease Monkey Games, and Eden Games. Animoca Brands has a growing portfolio of more than 200 investments in NFT-related companies and decentralized projects that are contributing to building the open metaverse, including Axie Infinity, OpenSea, Dapper Labs (NBA Top Shot), Yield Guild Games, Harmony, Alien Worlds, Star Atlas, and others. For more information visit www.animocabrands.com or follow on Twitter or Facebook.
About the Role
As the Strategic Finance Manager, you will lead group-level financial budgeting processes encompassing operating, advisory, investment, and trading businesses. In addition to financial forecasting and analysis, you will handle various Investor Relations activities, portfolio management in multiple subsidiaries, and group-level financial transformation tasks.
Responsibilities:
-Lead financial budgeting process, coordinating with responsible businesses to align group-level initiatives with local strategies, help identify risks and opportunities, evaluate ROIs of various projects, and prioritize investments
-Be an expert at building financial models and provide data analytics to better understand business conditions, and evaluate the economic implications and trade-offs of various business actions
-Be the trusted partner of subsidiaries and group-level businesses by highlighting performance trends and causes of unexpected variances
-Analyse financial performance from various angles – by products, by channels, and by partners and help the business take proactive actions to scale the business and improve profitability
-Actively provide decision support through continued monitoring of business drivers, industry trends, and competitor benchmarking/analysis
-Periodically and on an ad-hoc basis, provide various financial analysis reports to senior management to facilitate business decision-making
-Drive continuous improvement of an overall finance function to drive innovation/automation in reporting, planning, and analysis
-Handle various Investor Relations activities by circulating periodic reports to major investors, and following up on their Q&As
-Take in part in strategic initiatives such as M&A and fundraising activities, including building valuation models, handling due diligence, and being engaged in various strategic discussions
Requirements:
-More than 5 years of work experience in similar roles (FP&A, Corp Dev, IB, strategy/consulting, etc.)
-Minimum Bachelor’s degree in Accounting/Finance. Master/MBA is a plus
-Strong quantitative and effective communication skills
-Motivated self-starter with an entrepreneurship mindset
-Ability to navigate through ambiguity and set up best practices
THE PERKS
- Dynamic and Multi-cultural work environment (15 nationalities and counting!)
- Token and NFT incentive schemes provided by Animoca Brands
- Flat company structure: your ideas get heard by the right people very quickly
- Casual work attire
- Opportunity to get involved in working with various subsidiary brands
- Benefits (Medical / Life / Transportation Allowances)
Personal Information Collection Statement:
Personal data provided by the Job Applicant will be used strictly in accordance with the Employer's Personal Data Policies, a copy of which will be provided immediately upon his/her request. All classified data will be treated confidentially within the Human Resources & Administration Department. Personal data of unsuccessful applicants may be retained for a period of up to 3 months.
