Head of Commercial Finance

1 month ago

Watford, United Kingdom Allwyn UK Full time
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 the new operators of the UK’s National Lottery license from February 2024. Join us as over the next year we embark on a largescale transformation journey to build a bigger, better, and safer National Lottery that delivers more money to Good Causes. As one of the UK largest brands you’ll have a once in a lifetime opportunity to work with one of the UK biggest media budgets.  
 
Once-in-a-lifetime opportunities exist for people from within and outside the betting and gaming industry to join us play a part in giving the National Lottery a fresh start. Allwyn is 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. 

Role Purpose:

The Head of Commercial Finance (Marketing) will business partner the Marketing Director to ensure returns are maximised across our Marketing & Promotional spend. This role will partner with analytics teams across the business and with 3rd parties to ensure a consolidated and consistent approach to decision making, supporting the business through an exciting time of growth.

Finance Team Description

  • The Finance department ensures the business is financially sound, has robust accounting and reporting processes, and delivers financial targets including returns to Good Causes, profit and cashflow.
  • Key responsibilities of the broader Finance Function are:

o   Management accounts, including budgeting and forecasting

o   Supporting commercial decisions including new game innovation, marketing and capital investment cases

o   Statutory accounts

o   KPI reporting and analysis

o   License and Trust reporting and compliance

o   Tax and VAT reporting, compliance and advice

o   Management of the cash position and relationship with our banking provider

o   Delivering value and ROI

Team Description:

The Commercial Finance department supports the business to achieve it’s goals and objectives with Commercial sound, data lead decision making.

  • Budgeting and forecasting of Sales, Net Margin and Marketing costs.
  • Decision support, particularly through the development of financial business cases to support our commercial proposals and capital expenditure
  • Decision support on Game innovation and development
  • Financial modelling of Game simulation and performance
  • Broader analytics including econometrics
  • Monitoring performance against the milestones and KPIs set out in the Annual Business Plan with both the Executive team and the Board
  • Weekly trading performance and analysis of games and channels
  • Day to day cost control / Management accounts reporting
Role Responsibilities:
  • Finance accountability for the Marketing Budget and Sales target associated with this; across the 5 year plan
  • Business Partner Marketing Director and support broader Marketing leadership team.
  • Lead the budget and reforecasting processes for Marketing spend and work with broader Commercial team colleagues to ensure Sales plan with clear accountabilities for delivery
  • Develop measurement framework with end to end ROI measurement; alongside analytics teams across the business and with 3rd party agencies.
  • Support strategic reviews of Marketing, ensuring Marketing strategy supports delivery or broader business objectives and the right measurement framework is in place.
  • Management of a team of 3 and broader people leadership as a member of the Commercial Finance senior team.
  • Work alongside Commercial Finance leadership peers to ensure sound Commercial decision making across the business and that Marketing decision making aligns to our games portfolio.

Requirements

Skills and Experience:
  • Qualified accountant with several years of post-qualified experience.
  • Strong commercial awareness and ability to apply this to decision making and recommendations.
  • Solutions focused and ability to ‘create the new’ as the business evolves.
  • Strong leader as well as a team player with a focus on collaboration and delivery.
  • Advanced Excel Modelling and PowerPoint skills.
  • Excellent presentation skills at Executive management level.
  • Comfortable managing upwards as well as downwards.
  • Ability to negotiate and influence Senior Stakeholders.
  • Excellent organisation and project management skills. Be able lead and drive projects and interact with multiple stakeholders (internal and external)
  • Analytical mind- Ability to translate complex data into a format that is understood by non-Finance stakeholders and pick out the key points.
  • Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
  • Displays excellent attention to detail.
  • Excellent understanding of the Gambling industry and the challenges and opportunities that exist is a plus

Benefits

  • 34 days paid leave (This includes bank holidays)
  • 2 x Life Days
  • 4 x Salary of Life Insurance
  • Pension: We’ll contribute 8.5%
  • BUPA
  • £500 wellness allowance
  • Income Protection

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