Commercial Finance Analyst

Allwyn UK; Watford; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading company in the lottery sector as a Financial Business Partner, where you'll manage budgets and provide financial support for marketing initiatives. This role requires strong analytical skills and a qualified accountant background. You'll collaborate across teams to enhance financial processes and reporting, contributing to a transformative journey for the National Lottery.

Benefits

26 days paid leave (plus bank holidays)

Annual bonus scheme

Life Insurance

Pension matching up to 8.5%

Single Private Health Cover

£500 Wellness Allowance

Income Protection

Enhanced parental leave

Eye Care

Cycle To Work schemes

Qualifications

• Experience with enterprise financial systems and data visualization tools.
• Ability to work independently and manage priorities.

Responsibilities

• Manage month-end, budget, and reforecast processes.
• Provide financial modeling and reporting as needed.
• Lead process improvement initiatives.

Skills

Analytical Skills

Attention to Detail

Business Partnering

Education

Qualified Accountant (ACCA, CIMA, ACA)

Tools

Excel

PowerPoint

SAP

SAC

BPC

Job description

Description

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]
• This role will also involve working on commercial projects and developing new reporting processes.

The business partner will work across multiple workstreams and projects to provide finance support to new initiatives, leveraging growth and cost-saving opportunities to maximize returns to Good Causes and company profit.

Role Responsibilities

• Own all month-end, budget, and reforecast processes to ensure timely and accurate reporting.
• Apply clear financial control – capture and understand financial assumptions, maintain concise balance sheet ownership, and manage Risks & Ops, GRIR balances.
• Own month-end performance updates, including detailed analysis and commentary to communicate performance to stakeholders.
• Manage resource requests and present at bi-weekly meetings. Validate people costs reporting.
• Coordinate within Finance, working closely with FP&A and Cost teams.
• Provide financial modeling & reporting as needed. Support Marketing Scorecard.
• Lead process improvement initiatives to simplify and speed up current processes.
• Develop reporting packs to track actual spend vs. budget/forecast, spend to go, risks, and opportunities.
• Offer financial support and guidance for ad-hoc queries related to initiatives.
• Collaborate with the Finance Graduate to support their development and handover of BAU processes.

Key Skills And Experience

• Qualified accountant (ACCA, CIMA, ACA).
• Advanced Excel modeling and PowerPoint skills.
• Excellent analytical skills and attention to detail.
• Business partnering experience – ability to work cross-functionally with finance and non-finance colleagues.
• Ability to work independently, set priorities, and manage upward.
• Ability to operate in a fast-paced environment.
• Commercial experience is beneficial but not essential.
• Understanding of the Lottery/Gaming industry is advantageous.
• Experience with enterprise financial systems such as forecasting and data visualization tools; SAP/SAC/BPC is 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 are based on business needs, job requirements, and individual qualifications. We encourage applications from individuals regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, and marriage and civil partnerships.

Benefits

• 26 days paid leave (plus bank holidays)
• Annual bonus scheme
• 2 x Life Days
• 4 x Salary of Life Insurance
• Pension: we’ll match your contribution up to 8.5%
• Single Private Health Cover
• £500 Wellness Allowance
• Income Protection
• Enhanced parental leave (maternity and paternity)
• Eye Care, Dental and Cycle To Work schemes