Manager, Commercial Finance - FP&A

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Manager, Commercial Finance - FP&A

This key role is integral to the Commercial Finance FP&A team at King. You will be responsible for driving forecasting, reporting, and performance analysis across King's franchises and marketing, with a focus on IAP and Marketing. Working closely with Business Partners, central finance, and other functions, you will ensure high-quality financial processes, deliver actionable insights, and help shape strategic decisions with robust financial analysis.

Your role within our Kingdom

Key Responsibilities:
* Forecasting & Planning: Lead quarterly forecast preparation and reviews, ensuring assumptions are robust, consistent, and aligned with business strategies. Contribute to long-range planning and scenario modelling.
* Performance Management: Deliver weekly and monthly performance analysis, including pacing, revenue commentary, and risks & opportunities. Provide insights that help explain trends and highlight actions.
* Reporting Excellence: Prepare and deliver monthly and quarterly reporting packs (Monthly P&Ls, S&OP, BD reporting where relevant). Ensure outputs are accurate, timely, and consistent across the Commercial Finance team.
* Analytical Insight: Conduct deep dives, ad hoc analysis, and investment modelling (e.g., for performance marketing spend or new initiatives) to support decision-making.
* Collaboration & Partnership: Work closely with Finance Business Partners, central finance, and Finance Data Labs to align on assumptions, provide context, and ensure "one version of the truth" in all outputs.
* Process & Tool Development: Support continuous improvement of forecasting and reporting processes, including use of Forecasto and other tools. Drive automation and process enhancements to improve efficiency and insight.

Skills and Experience:
* Proven FP&A experience in a global, fast-paced industry (gaming, tech, or digital preferred).
* Strong technical competence in forecasting, planning, and financial modelling.
* Comfortable working with large datasets, with advanced Excel and financial systems skills; experience with Forecasto, Hyperion, or similar tools an advantage.
* Ability to translate complex financial and non-financial data into clear insights and recommendations.
* Excellent collaboration and communication skills, able to work effectively with Business Partners and non-finance stakeholders.
* Strong organisational skills, able to manage multiple priorities and deliver high-quality work to tight deadlines.
* Analytical mindset with attention to detail, combined with the ability to see the bigger picture.
* Professional qualifications (ACA, ACCA, CIMA, or equivalent) preferred.

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