commercial finance manager

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Job Description:

King is the worldwide leader in mobile gaming, with more than 2 billion USD in yearly revenue and 340 million monthly active users thanks to brands like Candy Crush Saga.

With 14 Petabytes of data and dozens of billion events generated every day, data at King is in the heart of the business. The Shared Tech organisation at King - split across Barcelona, London and Stockholm - is responsible for processing all the data we receive each day and to use it to drive all of King's data and analytics needs.

You will be part of the Finance, Insights & Strategy team, responsible for managing the financial performance of King's Shared Technology function. You will be partnering some of the most exciting teams at King providing insight into King's game production engine, AI / machine learning and enterprise analytics teams managing investment requests, budget, forecasts, and month end processes, whilst regularly providing leadership with financial performance updates. You will be reporting into the Senior Finance Manager.

Also, please note this is a 9 to 12 month fixed-term contract role.

Your role

• Being a valued and trusted business partner providing supportive challenge and valuable insight, driving a culture of ongoing continual improvement and lead the implementation of those improvements.
• Utilize your commercial finance experience to provide financial advice and insights to Shared Tech Leadership team on all matters relating to financial performance. Driving business performance and influencing decision-making
• Lead Forecast process with support from Senior Finance Manager (Weekly and Quarterly) for Shared Technology including analysis on costs, headcount, CAPEX, and investment.
• Responsible for preparing and evolving monthly leadership packs which ensure full visibility of costs and preparation of re-forecast materials.
• Translate financial and non-financial marketing metrics into actionable operating plans to support key stakeholders in driving the business forward.
• Support in management of Month End process for all Shared Technology costs
• Take charge of business case proposals for investment and growth, delivering comprehensive cases to leadership for approval
• Provide financial business partnering insight to strategic projects across Shared Tech
• Seek out opportunities for growth and development within King to take yourself to the next level.
• Get commercial! Have the motivation to fully embed yourself in the business, understanding the key success drivers and how we can partner, inspire and enable.

Skills

• Strong commercial acumen, as well as demonstrable experience of delivering and evolving diverse financial insight to a range of multi-disciplinary stakeholders across the business.
• Effective business partnering experience, collaborative in building robust relationships within the King community.
• Resourceful with ability to deliver and handle change in a fast-paced tech company would be beneficial.
• An analytical mindset comfortable working with big data sets and translating results into meaningful analysis, incorporating into forecasts and providing actionable insights.
• Confidence and gravitas in working with and challenging senior management.
• Experience in presenting commercial and financial metrics to non-finance teams and key stakeholders.
• Advanced excel skill and experience and initiative in building robust financial models.
• Developing professional PowerPoint decks/presentations and advanced graph building skills
• Provide routine and ad hoc analysis and reporting in a form that accurately and clearly articulates the key points and actionable insights.
• Able to maintain quality work and meet rigorous deadlines.
• ACA or CIMA qualified or international equivalent.
• Finance related degree or equivalent experience.
• Hyperion systems experience or similar large enterprise software is beneficial.

FI&S Team Values

• Ownership and Accountability
• Commercial and Curious
• Proactive and Forward-Thinking
• Improving and Evolving

Background

• Extensive experience in commercial finance
• Accounting/audit background is beneficial
• Experience of managing forecasts/working in matrix structure
• Tech company experience is preferable

About King

At King, we're Making the World Playful. Heard of Candy Crush? We're the creators behind it. With game studios in Stockholm, Malmö, London, Barcelona and Berlin, and offices in Dublin, San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles, and Malta, we have a 20-year history of delivering some of the world's most iconic games in the mobile gaming industry and are on a mission to level-up the little moments for our more than 200 million active monthly users. But we aren't just crushing it with candies, we're also behind Farm Heroes, Bubble Witch, Pet Rescue and loads of other sweet games. As a leading interactive entertainment company for the mobile world, King is part of Activision Blizzard, which was recently acquired by Microsoft.

A Great Saga Needs All Sorts of Heroes

King strives to be a place where everyone can be their most authentic self. We recognize that diversity, equity and inclusion is a vital and continuous conversation, and that change only happens when we all come together. It's our mission to build a diverse and inclusive Kingdom for our people, players, and community.

Making the World Playful

Making the World Playful is our mission - it's the thread that connects our people, our players, and our passion for our games. Let's face it, who doesn't love a bit of fun?

Kingsters are seriously playful: creative thinkers who balance art and science to bring moments of magic to millions daily. But our players aren't the only ones that can level-up. We're always looking for ways to champion each other and make what's already great, even better.

So, if this feels like a fun way to spend your days, and you share our passion, our values, and our hunger to shape the future, join us in Making the World Playful.

Applications need to be in English.
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