Manager, Accounting Ops

Manager, Accounting Ops

We are headquartered in Santa Monica, California, with teams spanning Marketing, PR, Sales, Supply Chain, and Corporate Functions, including HR, IT, Legal, Facilities, and Finance.

Our Accounting Operations team supports a complex, fast-moving business and partners closely with teams across the organization to ensure spend activity is supported, tracked, and accurately reflected in our financials.

Your Mission

As Manager, Accounting Operations, you will sit within the Accounting organization and primarily support business teams with spend-related administrative and coordination activities. This role focuses on helping teams that are not deeply familiar with internal spend, invoicing, and cost processes navigate those workflows effectively, while ensuring activity supports accurate accounting outcomes.

While business support is the primary focus, the role requires a working understanding of accounting concepts—including accruals, cost timing, and expense classification—to support cost tracking, analysis, and close activities. This is not a traditional accounting role, but accounting knowledge is essential to be successful.

You will partner closely with Legal, Procurement, Accounts Payable, and business teams, serving as a bridge between business activity and accounting requirements.

What You Bring to the Table

• Serve as a primary point of contact for business teams, supporting internal spend processes including contract initiation, invoice submission, and cost tracking
• Guide business partners through required administrative and coordination steps, working across Legal, Procurement, Accounts Payable, and Accounting to resolve issues and keep activity moving
• Apply accounting knowledge to support accurate cost tracking, accruals, cost analysis, and period recognition, including support for month-end close activities
• Identify and resolve gaps or issues that could impact cost accuracy, close timelines, or downstream accounting
• Act as the primary point of accountability for third-party service providers (BPO), overseeing day-to-day service delivery, tracking outputs, and coordinating issue resolution and escalation
• Maintain and enhance trackers and tools used for spend oversight and cost visibility, and identify opportunities to simplify or improve related workflows
• Support ad hoc accounting and operational projects as business and accounting needs evolve

Minimum Requirements

Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field
• 6+ years of experience in accounting operations, procurement support, or financial process coordination
• Experience with accounting close processes, invoice workflows, and cost tracking
• Familiarity with Oracle, OBIEE Answers, Power BI, and Excel-based reporting tools is a plus

Skills & Attributes

• Strong accounting foundation with an understanding of procurement and invoice processes
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and drive cross-functional coordination
• Detail-oriented with a process improvement mindset
• Comfortable working with manual trackers and identifying opportunities for automation
• Adaptable, proactive, and collaborative

Activision Blizzard, Inc., is one of the world's largest and most successful interactive entertainment companies and is at the intersection of media, technology and entertainment. We are home to some of the most beloved entertainment franchises including Call of Duty®, World of Warcraft®, Overwatch®, Diablo®, Candy Crush™ and Bubble Witch™. Our combined entertainment network delights hundreds of millions of monthly active users in 196 countries, making us the largest gaming network on the planet!

Our ability to build immersive and innovative worlds is only enhanced by diverse teams working in an inclusive environment. We aspire to have a culture where everyone can thrive in order to connect and engage the world through epic entertainment. We provide a suite of benefits that promote physical, emotional and financial well-being for 'Every World' - we've got our employees covered! Subject to eligibility requirements, the Company offers comprehensive benefits including:

• Medical, dental, vision, health savings account or health reimbursement account, healthcare spending accounts, dependent care spending accounts, life and AD&D insurance, disability insurance;
• 401(k) with Company match, tuition reimbursement, charitable donation matching;
• Paid holidays and vacation, paid sick time, floating holidays, compassion and bereavement leaves, parental leave;
• Mental health & wellbeing programs, fitness programs, free and discounted games, and a variety of other voluntary benefit programs like supplemental life & disability, legal service, ID protection, rental insurance, and others;
• If the Company requires that you move geographic locations for the job, then you may also be eligible for relocation assistance.

Eligibility to participate in these benefits may vary for part time and temporary full-time employees and interns with the Company. You can learn more by visiting .

In the U.S., the standard base pay range for this role is $87,480.00 - $161,910.00 Annual. These values reflect the expected base pay range of new hires across all U.S. locations. Ultimately, your specific range and offer will be based on several factors, including relevant experience, performance, and work location. Your Talent Professional can share this role's range details for your local geography during the hiring process. In addition to a competitive base pay, employees in this role may be eligible for incentive compensation. Incentive compensation is not guaranteed. While we strive to provide competitive offers to successful candidates, new hire compensation is negotiable.