Senior Analyst, Strategic Finance at Epic Games in Cary, NC

WHAT MAKES US EPIC? At the core of Epic’s success are talented, passionate people. Epic prides itself on creating a collaborative, welcoming, and creative environment. Whether it’s building award-winning games or crafting engine technology that enables others to make visually stunning interactive experiences, we’re always innovating. Being Epic means being a part of a team that continually strives to do right by our community and users. We’re constantly innovating to raise the bar of engine and game development. ACCOUNTING & FINANCE What We Do Our Finance and Accounting teams build the financial infrastructure to scale our growing company. We combine analytical and strategic thinking to develop a sound financial future for our global brand. We work closely with teams across the company, international subsidiaries, as well as with external partners to ensure a world-class finance organization. Our team contains experts from fields like tax, treasury, purchasing, FP&A, and more. What You'll Do The Strategic Finance team is responsible for working closely with Epic’s business units to create and maintain short- and long-term financial forecasts as well as provide continuous reporting on performance. These financial forecasts will be underpinned by KPIs and reflect the highly iterative and evolving strategies of the business. Together with business leaders, you will determine business targets to meet our objectives and put in place systems to measure and report on performance. Through analysis and market research, you will help prioritize initiatives and roadmap plans, evaluate financial and strategic return on investment, prioritize across the Company’s portfolio of opportunities, help plan resourcing, monitor KPIs to benchmarks, and manage the business units’ financials. You will align the financial and business goals across the organization and provide visibility as well as transparency to executives on financial performance, KPIs, and operating metrics. In this role, you will Partner with business leaders to identify and measure short and long-term strategic, financial, and operating targets Build short and long-term financial models (revenue, costs, expenses, and profitability) underpinned by KPIs to support business unit decision-making and company strategy Provide visibility to the financial performance of the business unit through continuous and consistent reporting including key drivers of change in the financial forecast Create and update presentations used to communicate financial insights to the CFO and senior leaders Ensure accuracy in reporting through partnership with the financial systems and accounting teams Support core FP&A activities such as quarterly forecasting and annual planning for the respective business units What we're looking for 3-5 years of strategic finance at startups, investment banking, private equity and/or MBB management consulting experience Experience collaborating with business unit leaders and driving forecasting, initiative planning, and execution Experience in technology; prior understanding of gaming, entertainment, and/or software highly desired Strong analytical skills with extensive financial modeling experience and working with large data sets Excellent verbal and written communication skills and ability to influence across the organization; ability to effectively build relationships with internal and external partners Experience collaborating with business unit executives and driving full P&L forecasting (including revenue and COS), initiative planning and execution in highly matrixed organizations Strong analytical skills with extensive valuation/financial modeling experience and working with large data sets Ability to distill complex analyses into insights that drive action Experience with Workday and Adaptive Insights is preferred Familiarity with AI-assisted toolsets (Claude Code/Cowork, GPT Codex, etc.) is a plus EPIC JOB + EPIC BENEFITS = EPIC LIFE Our intent is to cover all things that are medically necessary and improve the quality of life. We pay 100% of the premiums for both you and your dependents. Our coverage includes Medical, Dental, a Vision HRA, Long Term Disability, Life Insurance & a 401k with competitive match. We also offer a robust mental well-being program through Modern Health, which provides free therapy and coaching for employees & dependents. Throughout the year we celebrate our employees with events and company-wide paid breaks. We offer unlimited PTO and sick time and recognize individuals for 7 years of employment with a paid sabbatical. ABOUT US Epic Games spans across 25 countries with 46 studios and 4,500+ employees globally. For over 25 years, we've been making award-winning games and engine technology that empowers others to make visually stunning games and 3D content that bring environments to life like never before. Epic's award-winning Unreal Engine technology not only provides game developers the ability to build high-fidelity, interactive experiences for PC, console, mobile, and VR, it is also a tool being embraced by content creators across a variety of industries such as media and entertainment, automotive, and architectural design. As we continue to build our Engine technology and develop remarkable games, we strive to build teams of world-class talent. Like what you hear? Come be a part of something Epic! Epic Games deeply values diverse teams and an inclusive work culture, and we are proud to be an Equal Opportunity employer. Learn more about our Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Policy here. Note to Recruitment Agencies: Epic does not accept any unsolicited resumes or approaches from any unauthorized third party (including recruitment or placement agencies) (i.e., a third party with whom we do not have a negotiated and validly executed agreement). 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