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Job Title : Senior Commercial Finance Manager

Reporting To : Director, FPandA and Sales Finance

Location : London

Role status : Maternity cover FTC

Job DescriptionAs a

Senior Commercial Finance Manager

within our Gaming Ads Finance team, you will play a critical role in shaping the financial planning and decision-making that underpins King, Xbox, and Microsoft Casual Gaming. This maternity cover FTC role offers the opportunity to partner closely with senior stakeholders across the business, drive forecasting and planning processes, and deliver actionable insights that influence strategy in a fast-paced, digital advertising environment. You\''ll bring both strong technical finance expertise and a collaborative, business-partnering approach to help us optimise performance and support the continued growth of our gaming ecosystem.

Your role within Commercial Finance

Lead the annual and quarterly forecast processes in collaboration with our Planning and Reporting team

Build forecast processes involving business partners to produce accurate forecasts and support the team leaders in resource planning and tracking

Build financial templates to collect, review and discuss forecast submissions

Master our financial systems to submit our forecasts and create regular and ad-hoc reporting

Develop an understanding of KPIs and business drivers to build, improve and maintain detailed revenue models for forecasting and weekly pacing processes

Produce relevant and insightful annual operating plans, quarterly reforecasts and monthly reporting packs for executive review

Partner with our Finance Operations team to ensure that our monthly, quarterly PandL is accurate

Own ABM\''s Management PandL and produce reporting packs focused on variances to forecast and annual plans with a focus on actionable insights

Play a key role in the delivery of the consolidated three-year Long Range Plan

Partner with business counterparts to plan, forecast and ensure delivery against budgets. Influence long-term cost savings and efficiencies

Continuously identify opportunities for process improvements and efficiencies

Support and thought partnering on ad-hoc projects that arise in this fast paced, ever-changing industry

Support successful integration of ABM in the greater Microsoft Advertising/Xbox landscape; tasks include, but are not limited to:

Enabling cross-selling in an easy way for our clients and advising on the legal, privacy, financial challenges

Ensuring revenue is appropriately recognize for King vs other studios within MS Gaming

Creating cost allocation models to appropriate reflect what is serving King vs other studios within MS Gaming

Player ProfileThe key qualifications for this role include:

7+ years of experience in FPandA, commercial finance, accounting or related area

Experience in advertising preferred

Extensive business and financial modeling experience

Demonstrate a high degree of self-management and initiative, as direct supervision will be minimal with leadership based in San Francisco.

Confidence in voicing your opinions in an informed and critical manner to challenge the status quo

Strong business partnering and collaboration skills

Strong user of Excel, PowerPoint, ThinkCell, and Microsoft Office Suite

Experience with financial systems (Hyperion Planning) required

Experience with TM1 Financial Systems desired

Strong finance, business acumen and general analytical skills

Ability to effectively manage multiple priorities simultaneously

Able to present complex issues in clear, simple language. Experience in presenting commercial and financial metrics to non-finance teams and key stakeholders

About KingWith 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.

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