Senior Finance Analyst

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Join our journey to create a new experience for the National Lottery and help us to power change for the greater good.
About us:

We are Allwyn UK, part of the Allwyn Entertainment Group - a multi-national lottery operator with a market-leading presence in Austria, the Czech Republic, Greece, Cyprus and Italy. We have been officially awarded the Fourth Licence (10 year licence) to operate the National Lottery starting February 2024.

We've developed ground-breaking technologies, built player protection frameworks, and have a proven track record of making lotteries better. Our aim is to create one of the UK's most inclusive organisations - where people can bring the best of themselves, to do their best work, every day, for the benefit of good causes.

Allwyn is an Equal Opportunity Employer which prides itself in being diverse and inclusive. We do not tolerate discrimination, harassment, or victimisation in the workplace. All employment decisions at Allwyn are based on the business needs, the job requirements, and the individual qualifications. Allwyn encourages applications from individuals regardless of age, disability (visible or hidden), sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships.

While the main contribution of the National Lottery to society is through the funds to good causes, at Allwyn we put our purpose and values at the heart of everything we do. Join us as we embark on a once-in-a-lifetime, largescale transformation journey to build a bigger, better, and safer National Lottery that delivers more money to good causes.

Role Purpose:

We are looking for an experienced Commercial Finance Manager to work across multiple workstreams and support senior leaders across the wider business make data-driven decision making to maximise returns to Good Causes.

Role Responsibilities:

• Support the Commercial Finance Manager with analysis and presentations to effectively communicate with stakeholders in the wider business.
• Support Budgeting and Forecasting processes with detailed analysis and presentations to facilitate business decisions.
• Leading financial modelling and P&L summary of business cases, working with business stakeholders to understand revenue and cost drivers and ensure accurately modelled and captured in the business case.
• Support the Product team to understand performance, identify risks and opportunities and work alongside broader finance and analytics teams to offer solutions and opportunities for business growth.
• Ownership of month end performance updates, including detailed analysis and commentary to communicate performance to internal and external stakeholders.
• Be the lead on process improvement and streamlining across the Commercial Planning and Trading team.
• Assist the Finance Graduate within the Commercial Planning and Trading team and support their development.
• Deputise for Commercial Finance Manager, working alongside Senior team as and when required.
• Assist with ad-hoc queries from Product, Channel and Marketing teams

Requirements
Key Skills and Experience:

• Qualified accountant (ACCA, CIMA, ACA)

• Highly numerate with the ability to analyse, model and interpret data, including large data sets.

• Strong interpersonal skills and able to articulate financial information to non-finance stakeholders

• Commercial awareness and ability to apply this to decision making and recommendations

• Experience with SAP BPC preferred.

• Experience in a similar Commercial Finance role preferred.

• Advanced MS Excel skills (Lookups, Pivots, Data Visualisation) and data manipulation

• Experience with BI tools an advantage

• Self-starter with a keen attention to detail and independent thinking

Benefits

• 26 days paid leave (plus bank holidays)

• Annual bonus scheme

• 2 x Life Days

• 4 x Salary of Life Insurance

• Pension: we'll match your contribution up to 8.5%

• Single Private Health Cover

• £500 Wellness Allowance

• Income Protection

• Enhanced parental leave (maternity and paternity)

• Eye Care, Dental and Cycle To Work schemes