P2P Business Partner

Entain / GVC Holdings; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 40,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player seeks a dynamic finance professional to partner with marketing teams, providing crucial financial guidance and ensuring adherence to best practices. This role offers the chance to drive change and improve financial operations, while working closely with various stakeholders. The successful candidate will leverage their analytical skills to turn complex data into actionable insights, enhancing the financial performance of marketing initiatives. Join a forward-thinking company committed to diversity and inclusion, where your contributions will help shape the future of entertainment.

Qualifications

• Strong experience in financial operations or accounts payable roles.
• Ability to work in a dynamic, fast-moving industry with multiple projects.

Responsibilities

• Partner with Marketing teams to provide financial guidance and support.
• Maintain spend trackers for real-time visibility of marketing expenses.

Skills

Financial Analysis

Stakeholder Management

Commercial Acumen

Data Management

Proactiveness

Excel Proficiency

Education

Part Qualified/Qualified Accountant (CIMA/ACCA/ACA)

Tools

Oracle

Power BI

Tableau

Job description

Company Description

We are Entain. Our vision is to be the world leader in sports betting and gaming entertainment by creating the most exciting and trusted experience for our customers, revolutionising the gambling space as we go.

We're home to a global family of more than 25 well-known brands and, with a focus on sustainability and growth, we will transform our sector for our players, for ourselves and for the good of entertainment.

This role will partner with UK&I Marketing teams to provide support and challenge in financial processes to enable greater granularity and reliability in financial tracking and analysis, while allowing them to focus on delivering our marketing strategies. This will also require significant interaction with other teams, such as FP&A, Financial Control, and Procurement, to maintain an excellent grasp of current and future activities and ensure accurate budget tracking and financial reporting. You will act as a trusted advisor to marketing teams, driving financial performance and efficiency in our marketing operations.

This is a new role working with new processes as such the successful candidate will need strong initiative and interpersonal skills to identify areas for improvement and to drive that change. This will also mean there is plenty of headroom for personal growth in this role.

Job Description

Business Partnering

• Partner with the Marketing teams to provide financial guidance and ensure adherence to policies and processes
• Maintain close understanding of new and existing marketing initiatives to ensure correct financial treatment of marketing expenses
• Maintain and update spend trackers and relevant documents to ensure real-time visibility of marketing spend
• Support the preparation of budgets, forecasts and month-end processes for assigned cost centres considering relevant activity data, cost pressures and business developments
• Collaborate with Strategy to track spend against wider marketing strategies
• Liaise with Financial Control to ensure accurate accounting
• Support FP&A to continuously improve the granularity and accuracy of financial reporting and analysis to aid the business decision making
• Produce ad-hoc financial analysis and reporting as required

P2P (Procurement to Pay) Support

• Ensure financial best practice is being applied to all spend incurred by Marketing teams
• Support marketing teams throughout the PO and invoicing processes, ensuring accurate processing and alignment with budget allocations and procurement processes.
• Act as the key contact for P2P-related queries, resolving issues efficiently with internal teams
• Identify and implement process efficiencies to improve P2P operations

Working with people

• Building strong relationships with internal stakeholders and provide the link between teams to enable effective collaboration
• Use such relationships to drive improvement in financial practices conducted by Marketing teams, by providing the necessary guidance and training
• Utilising effective knowledge transfer techniques to extract useful information from sources to enhance reporting
• Able to articulate issues and utilise influencing skills to propose solutions and present them to senior management

Qualifications

Experience

• Part Qualified/Qualified Accountant (CIMA/ACCA/ACA etc.), and/or strong experience in P2P, financial operations, or accounts payable roles
• Experience of communication with multiple stakeholders, including non-finance users
• Strong commercial acumen with the ability to challenge and influence
• Ability to work in a dynamic, fast-moving industry with multiple projects and priorities
• Must be able to demonstrate proactiveness and initiative to drive change

Technical skills

• Data expert, who can turn numbers into a compelling business story
• Strong attention to detail and accuracy in financial data management
• Understanding of financial processes related to purchase orders, invoicing, accruals, and reconciliations
• Proficient in Excel skills
• Experience in using financial reporting tools such as Oracle

Bonus skills and experience

• Experience with data visualisation tools (Power BI, Tableau)
• Prior exposure to marketing spend management and/or the gambling industry

Additional Information

Competencies / behaviours

• Excellent people and stakeholder management skills
• Forward focused, with the ability and desire to effect change
• Highly analytical, with an aptitude for large data sets
• Able to challenge in a robust, but considered manner with stakeholders at all levels, including senior management
• Able to articulate complex financial concepts in simple terms and able to communicate technical concepts to non-technical users
• Able to demonstrate ‘out of the box’ thinking, to recognise indeterminate risks and opportunities where a precedent may not exist, and propose novel solutions for them
• Able to work independently on complex tasks without the benefit of an established framework, but able to identify when there is a need to work in concert with others and seek guidance from senior management, when necessary
• Proactive attitude to make a difference and have an impact
• Collaborative team player, with strong interpersonal skills
• Comfortable with multiple priorities and delivering to tight timescales

Diversity and equal opportunities

As a global employer, Entain is committed to providing a safe, fun and inclusive culture, where our people feel like they truly belong.

We are a multicultural business that values, celebrates and respects individual differences. So whatever your sexuality, gender, gender identity, ability, age, race, religion or belief, you will have a voice here and the space to do your best work.

Our diverse internal networks provide the support for you to express your views and make a positive difference, all for the good of entertainment.

At Entain, we do what's right. It's one of our core values and that's why we're taking the lead when it comes to creating a diverse, equitable and inclusive future - for our people, and the wider global sports betting and gaming sector. However you identify, our ambition is to ensure our people across the globe feel valued, respected and their individuality celebrated.

We comply with all applicable recruitment regulations and employment laws in the jurisdictions where we operate, ensuring ethical and compliant hiring practices globally.