Commercial Finance Analyst

TN United Kingdom; Watford; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the lottery industry seeks an experienced Accountant and Business Partner to manage the Marketing & Product budget. This role involves financial reporting, analysis, and collaboration across teams to support new initiatives, ensuring accurate budgeting and forecasting. The ideal candidate will be a qualified accountant with strong analytical skills and the ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment.

Benefits

26 days paid leave (plus bank holidays)

Life Insurance (4x salary)

Pension matching up to 8.5%

Single Private Health Cover

Income Protection

Enhanced parental leave

Eye Care, Dental and Cycle To Work schemes

Qualifications

• Qualified accountant with ACCA, CIMA, or ACA certification.
• Advanced Excel and PowerPoint skills required.
• Ability to work independently and manage priorities.

Responsibilities

• Manage month-end, budget, and reforecast processes.
• Provide financial modelling and reporting support.
• Lead process improvements and develop reporting packs.

Skills

Analytical skills

Attention to detail

Business partnering

Excel Modelling

PowerPoint skills

Education

Qualified accountant (ACCA, CIMA, ACA)

Tools

SAP

SAC

BPC

Job description

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Join our journey to create a new experience for the National Lottery and help us to power change for the greater good.

About us:

We are Allwyn UK, part of the Allwyn Entertainment Group – a multi-national lottery operator with a market-leading presence in Austria, the Czech Republic, Greece, Cyprus and Italy. We have been officially awarded the Fourth Licence (10 year licence) to operate the National Lottery starting February 2024.

We’ve developed ground-breaking technologies, built player protection frameworks, and have a proven track record of making lotteries better. Our aim is to create one of the UK’s most inclusive organisations – where people can bring the best of themselves, to do their best work, every day, for the benefit of good causes.

Allwyn is an Equal Opportunity Employer which prides itself in being diverse and inclusive. We do not tolerate discrimination, harassment, or victimisation in the workplace. All employment decisions at Allwyn are based on the business needs, the job requirements, and the individual qualifications. Allwyn encourages applications from individuals regardless of age, disability (visible or hidden), sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships.

While the main contribution of the National Lottery to society is through the funds to good causes, at Allwyn we put our purpose and values at the heart of everything we do. Join us as we embark on a once-in-a-lifetime, largescale transformation journey to build a bigger, better, and safer National Lottery that delivers more money to good causes.

Role Purpose:

• We are looking for an experienced and commercially-focused accountant and business partner to manage the Marketing & Product budget
• This will include accurate budgeting, forecasting, reporting and business partnering to the Marketing & Product Team. [Costs include Marketing, Product & People costs]
• In addition this role will allow scope to be involved in commercial projects and new reporting creation and development.

business partner to work across multiple workstreams and projects to provide finance support to new initiatives, taking advantage of growth and cost-saving opportunities to maximise returns to Good Causes and company profit.

Role Responsibilities:

• Own all month end, budget and reforecast processes to ensure timely and accurate reporting.
• Clear financial control applied - financial assumptions are captured and understood. Concise balance sheet ownership, Risks & Ops, GRIR balances
• Ownership of month end performance updates, including detailed analysis and commentary to communicate performance to internal and external stakeholders.
• Own resource requests and present at bi-weekly meetings. Validate people costs reporting.
• Communicate appropriately within Finance working closely with FP&A and Cost team.
• Provide financial modelling & reporting as required. Support Marketing Scorecard.
• Lead on process improvement - new ways to simplify and speed up current processes.
• Develop reporting packs to track actual spend vs budget/forecast, spend to go, risks and opportunities etc.
• Provide financial support and guidance to initiatives for queries of an ad-hoc nature.
• Work closely with Finance Graduate to handover some BAU processing to support their development

Key Skills and Experience:

• Qualified accountant (ACCA, CIMA, ACA)
• Advanced Excel Modelling and PowerPoint skills
• Excellent analytical skills and attention to detail
• Business partnering – ability to work cross-functionally with both finance and non-finance colleagues
• Ability to work independently, create own priorities and manage upwards accordingly
• Able to work in a fast-paced environment
• Commercial experience beneficial but not essential
• Understanding of Lottery/Gaming industry beneficial
• Use of Enterprise Financial Systems such as forecasting and data visualisation tools. SAP/SAC/BPC a plus.

Our goal is to create one of the UK’s most inclusive organisations – where people can bring the best of themselves, to do their best work, every day, for the benefit of good causes.

Allwyn is an Equal Opportunity Employer which prides itself in being diverse and inclusive. We do not tolerate discrimination, harassment, or victimisation in the workplace. All employment decisions at Allwyn are based on the business needs, the job requirements, and the individual qualifications. Allwyn encourages applications from individuals regardless of age, disability (visible or hidden), sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships.

• 26 days paid leave (plus bank holidays)
• 2 x Life Days
• 4 x Salary of Life Insurance
• Pension: we’ll match your contribution up to 8.5%
• Single Private Health Cover
• Income Protection
• Enhanced parental leave (maternity and paternity)
• Eye Care, Dental and Cycle To Work schemes