Finance Business Partner
SummaryYou will join us in this brand new role for the business where you will be a finance business partner supporting our new games division. Reporting directly to the Finance Director you will be a key point of contact within the Finance team within our UK/European and US Studios. You will become a trusted embedded Business Partner, assisting with core decision making, challenging where appropriate and adding value to drive business strategy. This is truly a position you can make your own as you make your mark within the organisation as we go through our next phase of growth.
What You'll DoYou role will predominately cover these 3 key areas
Business Partnering
Providing analysis and assessment of performance against the agreed yearly plan and forecasts monthly, quarterly, and annually to support decision making.
Holding monthly reviews, ensuring that stakeholders can interpret and understand the numbers presented.
Using insights and feedback to continuously improve the Business Partnering Relationship and provide better reporting and analysis.
Building strong trusted relationships with key stakeholders.
Proactively managing cost base to agreed targets within your relevant business areas, both £ and headcount.
Liaising with key stakeholders to continually drive ‘value add' and ‘continuous improvement' across the business.
Partnering with key stakeholders to assist with business cases, due diligence processes and analytics to support strategic initiatives, and closely monitor and manage related spend.
Planning and Forecasting
Accountable for production of planning and forecast models, ensuring that data and information provided is accurate, insightful, understandable and user friendly.
Leading on the planning and forecasting cycle process for relevant business areas.
Partnering with key stakeholders to critically review and challenge plans and forecasts.
Ensuring accurate plans and forecasts are loaded into the planning tool as required and delivery deadlines are adhered to.
Driving the design, communication, messaging, and management of the annual planning process including challenges to the businesses of data submitted.
Ownership of ongoing scenario analysis to understand potential outcomes throughout the year.
Critically and proactively review the process after each cycle, making and suggesting improvement opportunities.
Accountable for production of planning and forecast models, ensuring that data and information provided is accurate, insightful, understandable and user friendly.
Finance Processes
Support key core finance activities including month end activity.
Continuous process improvement, identifying new methods of analysis.
Continuously looking to introduce robust controls and improve processes.
Why should you work for us
As well as the opportunity to work for a people first organisation where you will be able to grow and develop your career. We also offer some outstanding benefits that include:
Yearly Bonus
Pension scheme up to 10% matched
25 Days Annual leave + Christmas Closure + Birthday off + Wellness days + Bank holidays
Full Hybrid working arrangements to suit you
Private Medical Insurance + Dental Insurance
£50 a month wellness budget spend it toward your gym or massage for example
Access to Perkbox + Yulife
Enhanced Parental Leave
+Many More
Qualified Accountant (ACA/ACCA/CIMA or equivalent).
Several years of experience in accounting & FP&A preferably in a Gaming or Tech Company.
Business partnering experience
A “can do” mindset, adaptable and flexible.
Outstanding communication skills both written and verbal
Resilient and capable of managing multiple priorities.
System skills: Advanced Excel skills. Ideally Microsoft Dynamics 365 and TM1 - but not essential.
Ability to hit the ground running and to work independently.
Strong problem solving and analytical skills; must be able to partner effectively with all levels of the organisation.
A self-starting individual, initiating action without the need to be prompted by others.
Why Product Madness ?
You will be joining a global powerhouse where you will be part of a world- class talented team that creates remarkable hit games such as Heart of Vegas, Lightning Link, Cashman Casino, Mighty Fu, and Big Fish Casino. The success of these titles has led to over 400 million downloads and more than 50 million active users. But there is no stopping us there, we also have a new games team that is working on bringing new hit games to the market. Product Madness is an Aristocrat Technologies company within its digital games division of Pixel United.
Outstanding growth has seen us build Product Madness to more than 800 team members and counting, you can join one of our seven global talent hubs including London, USA, Canada, Spain, Poland, Ukraine & Israel.
You will be part of a company that is not only Mad about games but Mad about our people. Living by our value of people first, you will feel this firsthand from the moment you step into one of our fantastic studios. This is made possible by our amazing studio experience team who help make Product Madness such a fun place to work. Be it arranging endless snacks, weekly breakfasts & lunches, lavish Christmas & summer parties, happy hour drinks, social get- togethers and so much more.
So what is stopping you from coming and joining the Madness?
Our Values
We have the deepest respect for our people and their well being. We know they are exceptionally talented and will always have a choice. We want them to re- choose us every day. We are committed to building a culture where each person's voice will always be heard and addressed.
Always improving, innovating and never settling for the existing. We push all boundaries with courage and ambition to become the world's best games company.
Champion Together We excel at what we do but yet remain humble and helpful to our teammates. We champion one another and hold each other to high standards without any egos.
Globally Inclusive
We are all Equal - regardless of the language we speak, where we live, our gender, religion or culture we come from. We want to build a global home, where everyone has the equal opportunity to make an impact.
We always think from the customer's perspective - be it players or internal customers.
Improving their experience and joy is what drives us. Every client's success is our big win!