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Job Title: Senior Commercial Finance Manager                

Reporting To: Director, FP&A and Sales Finance

Location: London

Role status: Maternity cover FTC

Job Description:

As 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 & 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 P&L is accurate
• Own ABM’s Management P&L 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 Profile

The key qualifications for this role include:

• 7+ years of experience in FP&A, 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 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.