FP&A Finance Lead - 15 Month Fixed Term Contract
1 month ago
It’s a really exciting time to be at Space Ape Games. We’ve created a fast-paced environment that promotes genuine autonomy and we have projects at all stages of the development cycle. We launched our hit music game, Beatstar, in 2021 and we’re following its success with Countrystar less than two years later. We also officially launched our first puzzle game in July, Chrome Valley Customs, and we’re preparing to scale this game to global success. On top of all this, we’re running several mature live games and working on some exciting new projects behind the scenes!
We are recruiting for a 15 month maternity leave cover to join our small but versatile Finance team at Space Ape Games. This is an FP&A focused role with some general finance responsibilities.
Responsibilities
Lead FP&A processes for the company
- Prepare and review quarterly forecasts with Game Leads and Founders
- Business Partner Game Leads and Management by providing financial support and analysis as required
- Model Game revenue and margin scenarios with adjustable key assumptions for product and marketing improvements on an ad hoc basis
- Manage cost budgets and support the Marketing team with analysis on project spend
- Help prepare the monthly cash forecast for the business
- Support Business Partners by generating and reviewing new contracts and renewals with third parties
Reporting
- Own music reporting for Beatstar and Country Star games. Send quarterly reports to music Partners and approve payments for music invoices
- Prepare quarterly commission reporting for our Transformers game
- Support the Finance team in preparing Board slides and slides for Company presentations
Month End
- Prepare monthly journals and reconciliations for revenue
- Undertake the monthly calculations for deferred revenue reporting
- Assist with the delivery of monthly group reporting (P&L and Balance Sheet) to our parent company Supercell
General Finance Support
- Assist with AP by approving payments and managing cash
- Coordinate NDAs and agreements with contractors
- Support the Finance team with cost allocation review
- Assist the Finance team with month end review and other tasks as required
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field
- Professional accounting qualification (e.g. CIMA, ACA, ACCA, CPA, AAT)
- Post qualified experience in FP&A roles with experience in gaming/software preferred but not required
- Proficiency in accounting software, Excel and Google sheets
Why Space Ape is right for you
- Be a part of one of several small empowered teams who inspire and challenge one another in the pursuit of our mission
- Autonomy to make your own impact with the support to help it happen
- An award winning studio that has been crowned one of the best places to work, for the last 6 years in a row!
- Help run and create games which bring joy to millions of players all over the world
- 5* Glassdoor rating - Check out our reviews
- Entered a long-term strategic partnership with Supercell in 2017
About Space Ape
Space Ape is an award winning mobile game studio in Central London and founded in 2012. Since then our five games have been played by over 170m people, generated half a billion in revenue but we're just getting started. We are around 150 employees, from 30 different nationalities and diverse backgrounds united in a mission to make the world's next great game. In 2017 we partnered with Supercell (makers of Clash of Clans etc and part of Tencent) by way of majority acquisition.
Our music game, Beatstar, reached #1 download in 24 countries and is the top grossing music game globally. With BILLIONS of song plays and millions of people discovering it each month Beatstar is an important new platform for music discovery with top artists releasing their songs in Beatstar on the same day, or in some cases before, they are dropped on streaming platforms. If country music is more your thing check out Country Star, a recent follow up to Beatstar that might be more your thing.
Chrome Valley Customs brings an innovative twist to cater to a large underserved segment of the world's most successful game genre. Within the first two months it became the top grossing car game globally and we're just getting started.
Space Ape was voted Best Game Developer, and Beatstar Game of the Year in the 2022 Pocket Gamer Mobile Game Awards in BAFTA London (April 2022). Its game lead Charmie Kim won Best Newcomer at the DEVELOP Awards (July 2022), and it was short listed as one of Google Play User Choice Awards (Dec 2021). Space Ape won Mobile Developer of the Year in the Pocket Gamer Awards (2023).
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