Commercial Finance Manager - Ads (12mth FTC)

King; City Of London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading interactive entertainment company in London seeks an experienced Commercial Finance Manager on a 12-month fixed-term contract to oversee financial performance in ads, support budgeting processes, and drive business insights. The ideal candidate will have relevant experience in a global mobile gaming company, possess strong analytical skills, and demonstrate excellent communication abilities. This role promotes a culture of improvement within the finance team.

Qualifications

• Experience within a global mobile gaming company or digital advertising.
• Ability to handle change in a fast-paced tech company.
• Experience in presenting commercial and financial metrics to non-finance teams.

Responsibilities

• Oversee financial performance of the advertising business.
• Support monthly revenue outlooks and annual budget processes.
• Prepare monthly reporting packs with financial and non-financial KPIs.

Skills

Commercial acumen

Business partnering

Analytical mindset

Advanced Excel skills

Excellent communication

Job description

Commercial Finance Manager - Ads (12mth FTC)

Kingsters in Finance are a truly commercial bunch. We focus on using our unique view into the numbers to see trends and opportunities that are developing within King and devise innovative solutions to complex problems in forecasting, accounting, compliance, and project management.

This role is available as a 12 month fixed term contract (FTC) to cover for maternity leave.

Your role within our Kingdom

This is an exciting time at King, and we are looking for an experienced Finance Manager to take responsibility for overseeing and monitoring the financial performance of our advertising business. Reporting into a Director, this is a broad role performing a variety of duties including but not limited to:

• Being a valued and trusted business partner to leaders in our game teams and advertising business unit, providing challenge, insight and driving a culture of continual improvement; leading the implementation of those improvements and integrate finance into the business operations
• Identify key performance drivers supported by solid analysis, and compelling storytelling
• Navigating a rich data ecosystem with disparate and varied sources to serve as a financial analytics/dashboard expert, ensuring alignment and integration of King’s financial data with the business use and interpretation
• Supporting monthly revenue outlook, quarterly forecasts, and annual budget processes
• Preparation of monthly reporting packs containing both financial and non-financial KPIs and commentary
• Staying ahead of competitor and market analysis, to highlight opportunities to leadership and the business and drive actionable business insights and inform forecasting projections
• Ad hoc analysis and reporting as required, including supporting the management team and the finance team

Skills to create thrills

You will have experience within a global mobile gaming company or with digital advertising and have a fundamental understanding of revenue drivers in relation to in-game advertising.

• Strong commercial acumen, as well as demonstrable experience of understanding relationships between key financial and non-financial business drivers across revenue
• Strong business partnering experience, collaborative in building robust relationships within King and broader Microsoft Gaming community, and gravitas in working with and challenging senior management
• Ability to deliver and handle change in a fast‑paced tech company
• An analytical mindset comfortable working with big data sets and translating results into meaningful analysis and incorporating into forecasts
• Experience in presenting commercial and financial metrics to non‑finance teams and key stakeholders
• The ability and drive to lead process improvements and drive efficiencies across ways of working
• Advanced Excel skill and experience; take initiative in building robust financial models
• Developing professional PowerPoint decks/presentations and advanced graph building skills
• Provide routine and ad hoc analysis and reporting in a form that accurately and clearly articulates the key points and actionable insights
• Able to maintain quality work and meet rigorous deadlines
• Excellent communicator, both written and verbal. Able to present complex issues in clear, simple language
• Fast learner and ability to pick up complex work quickly and with accuracy

Finance Team Values

We are a trusted, objective force within King, dedicated to enabling and guiding the company's growth and strategic decisions. Our team is a catalyst for advertising performance, innovation and accountability.

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.