Finance Director

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Director, Finance – Investment & Optimisation

Overview

At King, how we invest in our people is central to how we grow and succeed.

In this role, you’ll sit at the heart of that, owning King-wide people costs and helping shape decisions that impact the entire organisation. Working closely with the Senior Finance Director, you’ll act as a trusted partner and right hand, bringing clarity, structure, and insight to a complex, global business; from owning how we think about people investment, to enabling organisational evolution, to raising the bar on financial excellence - your impact will be both broad and deep.

This role is for someone who thrives in complexity, brings clarity where others see noise, and wants to play a defining role in how King scales.

What You’ll Do

• Be a trusted partner at the centre of the business
  • Act as a key advisor and sounding board to the Senior Finance Director and corporate leadership
  • Bring clarity, structure, and constructive challenge to complex, high-impact decisions
  • Translate financial and operational data into clear, actionable insight and shape exec level narratives
  • Act as a key advisor to senior corporate stakeholders on critical cost and investment topics

• Drive how King invests in its people
  • Lead the end-to-end view of King-wide people costs, collaborate in a matrixed org to get key inputs from the Commercial Cost team
  • Deliver accurate, transparent, and forward-looking plans across all planning cycles
  • Build better ways to understand, manage, and optimise one of our largest investment areas
  • Be accountable for the integrity, consolidation and financial stewardship of people cost, supporting
  • Drive improved visibility on productivity, cost efficiency, and return on people investment
  • Align inputs across a matrix organisation to ensure a single, consistent view of people cost

• Raise the bar on quality and rigour
  • Define and embed decision-making frameworks for investment prioritisation and cost optimisation across King
  • Ensure outputs are robust, consistent, and trusted across the organisation
  • Define and standardise planning, reporting, and modelling frameworks across corporate finance
  • Continuously improve how we work - making processes simpler, smarter, and more scalable
  • Own and lead King-wide month-end processes and review for corporate cost areas; and consolidate and ensure alignment across people cost

• Support how the organisation evolves
  • Partner with stakeholders to guide organisational planning and change
  • Provide financial clarity on investment choices and structural decisions
  • Help balance ambition with discipline as we scale
  • Support and provide insight into cost optimisation, efficiency, and productivity initiatives across the organisation

• Lead and grow a high-performing team
  • Build and lead a team that combines strong technical foundations with commercial thinking
  • Create a culture of ownership, pace, and continuous improvement
  • Develop talent that can operate at increasing levels of impact
  • Build finance capability and ways of working across the wider I&O and Finance team

• Connect corporate finance across King
  • Act as the finance anchor across corporate functions (HR, Finance, Legal, Workplace Management Etc.)
  • Drive alignment, consistency, and clarity across a complex cost base
  • Ensure a single, coherent financial view of remit
  • Navigate a highly matrixed organisation, aligning multiple cost owners and finance teams to deliver cohesive outputs

What You Bring

• Experience in a senior finance leadership role within a complex, fast-paced environment
• Strong ability to influence and challenge senior stakeholders with credibility and confidence
• Deep understanding of cost structures, workforce planning, and financial trade-offs
• A balance of strategic thinking and attention to detail
• A track record of building and leading high-performing teams
• Exceptional ability to translate complexity into clarity

Why This Role

• High impact, high visibility - influence decisions across the organisation
• A unique combination of strategy, operations, and leadership
• The opportunity to shape how we invest in our people and scale the business
• Positioned as a trusted deputy with significant scope and future progression

About King

With a mission of Making the World Playful, King is a leading interactive entertainment company with more than 20 years of history of delivering some of the world’s most iconic games in the mobile gaming industry, including the world-famous Candy Crush franchise, as well as other mobile game hits such as Farm Heroes Saga. King games are played by more than 200 million monthly active users. King, part of Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), has Kingsters in Stockholm, Malmö, London, Barcelona, Berlin, Dublin, San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles and Malta. More information can be found at King.com or by following us on LinkedIn, @lifeatking on Instagram, or @king_games on X.