Senior Finance Analyst | 14 month FTC

Senior Finance Analyst – Investment & Optimization

We are looking for a Senior Finance Analyst to join our Investment & Optimization team. This role acts as a shadow business partner to game teams, providing high‑quality financial insight, supporting planning processes, and helping drive better investment decisions across the portfolio.

Notice that assigned partnering and planning areas may evolve over time in line with business needs.

Reporting

Reports to the Associate Director for Investment & Optimization and plays a key role in delivering robust financial planning, reporting and insight.

Shadow Business Partnering

• Act as a key point of contact for stakeholders, providing insightful financial support and maintaining data integrity
• Support decision‑making and problem‑solving through clear financial analysis and recommendations
• Attend and contribute to business partner meetings, bringing a strong financial perspective
• Collaborate with Accenture / FinOps teams on purchase orders and month‑end processes
• Contribute to accurate L1 reporting, including understanding planning deviations and P&L performance

Planning & Reporting

• Own financial planning activities for assigned areas, including OpEx, CapEx, and headcount
• Analyse, recommend, and upload planning data into relevant systems
• Perform monthly cost and headcount reconciliations, investigating and explaining variances
• Validate data inputs to ensure accuracy and reliability
• Prepare game and cost centre reports, providing analysis and insightful commentary
• Identify and communicate key risks and opportunities in a timely manner
• Proactively escalate system or data issues to the Associate Director
• Support ad hoc financial queries, reporting requests, and business cases
• Act as a Finance approver for headcount and opex, applying budget knowledge appropriately

Forecasting & Planning

• Support the quarterly and annual forecast cycles for Investment & Optimization, contributing OpEx and headcount inputs and analysis
• Validate cost centre data, investigate variances, and surface key risks and opportunities

Insight & Innovation

• Help develop new dashboards and reporting solutions to enhance visibility across commercial spend
• Explore applications of AI and automation to improve financial processes and reporting

Ad Hoc & Cross‑Functional Collaboration

• Perform detailed ad hoc analysis to support strategic decisions
• Collaborate with Finance, Accenture, and cross‑functional teams, with the opportunity to expand into broader business partnering as the role evolves

High‑Scoring Skills

• ACA / ACCA / CIMA qualified, with Big 4 training preferred
• Experience in FP&A or commercial finance preferred
• Strong financial modelling skills in Excel, additional tools beneficial (e.g. Power BI, Looker, Tableau)
• Ability to build clear and compelling presentations (PowerPoint)
• Analytical mindset with attention to detail
• Experience working with planning tools (e.g. Oracle EPM) is advantageous
• Proactive, organised, and comfortable working in a fast‑paced environment
• Strong communicator with the ability to distil complex topics into simple, actionable insights
• Curious, ambitious, and eager to contribute to a high‑performing team in a fast‑paced, data‑rich environment

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