Senior Finance Analyst | 14 month FTC

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Are you a qualified accountant with Big 4 training and a passion for games? We are looking for a Senior Finance Analyst to join our Investment & Optimisation team. This role acts as a shadow business partner to game teams, providing high-quality financial insight, supporting planning processes, and helping drive better investment decisions across the portfolio.

Please note that assigned partnering and planning areas may evolve over time in line with business needs.

Your role within our Kingdom

You will report to the Associate Director for Investment & Optimization and play a key role in delivering robust financial planning, reporting and insight. Your responsibilities will include:

(Shadow) Business Partnering

• Act as a key point of contact for stakeholders, providing insightful financial support and maintaining data integrity
• Support decision-making and problem-solving through clear financial analysis and recommendations
• Attend and contribute to business partner meetings, bringing a strong financial perspective
• Collaborate with Accenture / FinOps teams on purchase orders and month-end processes
• Contribute to accurate L1 reporting, including understanding planning deviations and P&L performance

Planning & Reporting

• Own financial planning activities for assigned areas, including OpEx, CapEx, and headcount
• Analyse, recommend, and upload planning data into relevant systems
• Perform monthly cost and headcount reconciliations, investigating and explaining variances
• Validate data inputs to ensure accuracy and reliability
• Prepare game and cost centre reports, providing analysis and insightful commentary
• Identify and communicate key risks and opportunities in a timely manner
• Proactively escalate system or data issues to the Associate Director
• Support ad hoc financial queries, reporting requests, and business cases
• Act as a Finance approver for headcount and opex, applying budget knowledge appropriately

Forecasting & Planning

• Support the quarterly and annual forecast cycles for Investment & Optimization, contributing OpEx and headcount inputs and analysis
• Validate cost centre data, investigate variances, and surface key risks and opportunities

Insight & Innovation

• Help develop new dashboards and reporting solutions to enhance visibility across commercial spend
• Explore applications of AI and automation to improve financial processes and reporting

Ad Hoc & Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Perform detailed ad hoc analysis to support strategic decisions
• Collaborate with Finance, Accenture, and cross-functional teams, with the opportunity to expand into broader business partnering as the role evolves

High-Scoring Skills

• ACA / ACCA / CIMA qualified, with Big 4 training preferred
• Experience in FP&A or commercial finance preferred
• Strong financial modelling skills in Excel, additional tools beneficial (e.g. Power BI, Looker, Tableau)
• Ability to build clear and compelling presentations (PowerPoint)
• Analytical mindset with attention to detail
• Experience working with planning tools (e.g. Oracle EPM) is advantageous
• Proactive, organised, and comfortable working in a fast-paced environment
• Strong communicator with the ability to distil complex topics into simple, actionable insights
• Curious, ambitious, and eager to contribute to a high-performing team in a fast-paced, data-rich environment

Finance Team Values

We are a trusted, objective force within King, dedicated to enabling and guiding the company's growth and strategic decisions.

A Great Saga Needs All Sorts of Heroes

Making games is fun. Especially when you do it with people who share the same idea of what makes a good workplace great. We design games for everyone, no matter where they are or who they are, and we employ all sorts of people from all kinds of backgrounds to bring them to life. Truth is, we simply cannot expect diversity in our players and originality in our games without first nurturing it in our people. A great saga needs all sorts of heroes.

Making the World Playful

Making the World Playful is what inspires us to create new experiences and raise the bar. It’s what makes King a place where we can all dream bigger, continue to add innovation to our games, broadening the portfolio and exploring new territories in mid- core and casual. We take the art and science of gaming to the next level through our curiosity for the unexplored, passion for games, respect for each other and love for our players – and we’re not afraid to have fun along the way. In fact, together with our parent company Activision Blizzard and experts around the world, we believe having fun is good for you. There has never been a better time to join us. We're dreaming bigger and see a world of possibilities ahead. If you share our passion, our values, and our hunger to shape the future, join us in Making the World Playful!

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.