Commercial Finance Manager - Games

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Commercial Finance Manager – Games

Kingsters in Finance are a truly commercial bunch. We focus on using our unique view into the numbers to see trends and opportunities that are developing within King and devise innovative solutions to complex problems in forecasting, accounting, compliance, and project management.

Our culture is based on a shared promise to each other as Kingsters. It’s how we show up, it’s what we expect of each other, and as a result, it’s the sweet reward we get.

Your role within our Kingdom

This is an exciting time for King Finance, part of the FI&S organisation (Finance, Insights and Strategy) and we are looking for an experienced Finance Manager to take ownership for overseeing and monitoring the financial performance of one of our core games. Reporting into a Senior Finance Manager, this is a broad role performing a variety of duties including but not limited to:

• Being a valued and trusted business partner to leaders in our game team, providing challenge, insight and driving a culture of continual improvement; leading the implementation of those improvements and integrate finance into the business operations
• Identify key performance drivers supported by solid analysis, and compelling storytelling
• Navigate a rich data ecosystem with disparate and varied sources to serve as a financial analytics/dashboard expert, ensuring alignment and integration of King’s financial data with the business use and interpretation
• Support monthly revenue outlook, quarterly forecasts, and annual budget processes

Skills To Create Thrills

You will have experience within a global mobile gaming company or a company with a similar business model, in a fast- paced, dynamic industry. You should understand the full range of revenue drivers and marketing channels open to an online business like ours.

• Strong commercial acumen, as well as proven experience of understanding relationships between key financial and non-financial business drivers across revenue and marketing investment
• Strong business partnering experience, collaborative in building robust relationships within the King community, and gravitas in working with and challenging senior management
• Ability to deliver and handle change in a fast-paced tech company
• Experience in presenting commercial and financial metrics to non-finance teams and key partners
• The ability and aim to lead operational improvements and drive efficiencies across ways of working
• Advanced excel skill and experience and initiative in building robust financial models
• Developing professional PowerPoint decks/presentations and advanced graph building skills
• ACA, ACCA or CIMA qualified or international equivalent
• Hyperion systems experience or similar large enterprise software

FI&S Team Values

• We are trusted, objective partners, who encourage and enable
• We guide and challenge business performance, growth and strategic decisions

A great saga needs all sorts of heroes. King strives to be a place where everyone can be their most authentic self. We recognise that diversity, equity and inclusion is a vital and continuous conversation, and that impactful 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.

We offer free food and drinks in the London office and have an on-site gym!

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.