Business Analyst

3 Months ago • All levels • Data Analyst

Job Summary

Job Description

Hutch seeks a Business Analyst to join their London team. This role involves a blend of operational and project-based finance responsibilities, focusing on forecasting, financial modeling, and revenue reporting for current and upcoming games. Key tasks include preparing revenue forecasts, developing financial models, deeply understanding the free-to-play gaming model, and creating KPI reports. The analyst will collaborate extensively with various teams, including Finance, Performance Marketing, and Game teams, presenting analyses to both technical and non-technical audiences. The ideal candidate will be data-driven, possess strong analytical and communication skills, and be proficient in SQL and Python.
Must have:
  • Proficiency in SQL and Python
  • Experience in statistical/predictive modeling
  • Financial modeling and forecasting skills
  • Data visualization and reporting
  • Excellent communication skills
Good to have:
  • Experience with advanced time series forecasting
  • Free-to-Play (F2P) and/or GAAS business models experience
  • Video game industry knowledge
  • Proficiency in Excel, Tableau, and/or Power BI
Perks:
  • 4-Day Work Week
  • Flexible working hours
  • Remote working options
  • Excellent salary
  • Private health care
  • Enhanced parental leave
  • Mental health initiatives
  • Learning & development support
  • Free snacks and drinks
  • Social events

Job Details

Description

Business Analyst | Analytics | London | Full time

We’re Hutch, a mobile games developer & publisher with studios in central London, Dundee and Canada. Our mission is to build the most diverse and engaged automotive gaming community on mobile. Our games have been played by over 300 million people, with new titles in development.

We believe in putting our people first. Here you can make games without sacrificing quality time with family and friends. We strive to ensure our people are happy and healthy.  

Our teams are small and empowered, they have the independence to take on creative and technical challenges together, to work collaboratively, to make great games and have fun along the way. 

We believe in; Looking after our people, small empowered teams, complete transparency, test, learn repeat, community at the core and the freedom to focus on what truly makes a difference to our players.

We’re driven by our players! Come and Join the mission!

Business Analyst

Hutch is looking for a Business Analyst to join the team in London. We’re looking for a proactive individual who will enjoy the challenge of working with multiple teams on both game and financial analysis. This is an opportunity to bring in your knowledge of reporting, financial modelling and forecasting to completely level up how we approach these tasks. 

You should be a data driven person that is attentive to details. You should also be a great collaborator and communicator, with the ability to explain complex data and concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders. This position has a mixture of operational and project-based finance responsibilities. 

You will be a part of the Analytics team, working closely also with the Finance, Performance Marketing and various Game teams  to analyse and offer predictions for our existing and in development games. The Business Analyst will report into the Head of Analytics. You will own the responsibility for the forecasts, work on financial modelling and revenue reporting; forecasting plus any ad hoc analysis when required.

Responsibilities

  • Own the responsibility of forecasting including, revenues for our current and unreleased games, utilising data science techniques to analyse market dynamics, business trends, seasonality and competitive landscape, including new content and feature updates, providing insight on the financial impact
  • Prepare financial modelling that meets the needs of the business, taking into account various dependencies in order to deliver accurate forecasts in relation to revenue, marketing spend and EBITDA
  • Gain a deep understanding of the business, our games, the free to play gaming model including the various dependencies such as; retention, conversion, LiveOps, seasonality etc.
  • Be responsible for regular reporting to the company and the MTG group. Use Data Visualisation tools for comprehensive Key Performance Indicator (KPI) reporting, analysis of key business trends, and actual versus forecast variance analysis encompassing proactive commentary on expected business performance
  • Ensure efficient collaboration and communication with the game teams in order to prepare the forecasts and reports that meet their needs and take into account their valuable contribution.  
  • Work in a highly impactful role at a games studio that values data, through collaboration with the game teams to analyse data and enable them to make data-driven decisions
  • Perform Scenario-modelling, assessing the impact of changes in  marketing spend, player behaviour and game updates, to assist in risk management and resource allocation
  • Support the finance team and other stakeholders with special projects and requests
    that require financial and operational analysis

Requirements

  • You’re deeply comfortable with numbers. Your instinctive approach to any problem is to quantify it first. You always notice when news reports fail to contextualise numbers
  • Demonstrable experience in statistical and/or predictive  modelling
  • Your analysis has led to quantifiable improvements
  • Proficiency in SQL and Python
  • Strong passion for continuous learning and self-improvement. Ability to grasp ideas and concepts quickly
  • Ability to collaborate, working across departments and levels of the organization and with multiple stakeholders
  • Have the ability to communicate technical information to non-technical people and have
    patience in helping others understand
  • Previous experience working in a similar role, as an Analyst or FP&A background
  • Ability to think critically and spot data anomalies, trends, or deviations – and then
    introduce strategies for improvement
  • Confident presenting analysis and able to communicate and tailor presentations to
    different audiences
  • Ability to quickly analyze needs, find best practice solutions and build trusted networks to accomplish goals. Proactive self-starter, independently driving research, analysis, and solutions

Bonus Points

  • Experience with advanced time series forecasting techniques
  • Experience with Free-to-Play and/or GAAS business models
  • Experience with video games, with an understanding of gaming product features, etc.
  • Proficiency with Excel, Tableau and/or PowerBI

Benefits

Life at Hutch

Our HQ is in the heart of Shoreditch in central London. We have additional offices in Dundee and Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia. We're an agile, creative team with people at the core of our values. We reward our employees with;

  • Hutch is now a 4-Day Work Week company*
  • Flexible working hours
  • Remote working 2 days per week
  • Excellent salary
  • Private health care
  • Enhanced Maternity (18 weeks) and Paternity leave (6 weeks)
  • Access to mental health initiatives such as private mental health coaching
  • Support to learn, develop and progress within Hutch
  • Free snacks and drinks
  • Social events, game launch parties, Thursday night drinks and much more

*This will mean that Hutch employees will work a maximum of 4 days per week (30 hours/week) Mon-Thurs, with zero reductions in pay (compared to a 5 day working week).

Our Values

  • Transparent - Being transparent and open helps us to be trusted and fosters integrity.
  • Humble - When we are humble we show humility, we let go of egos and we are self-aware.
  • Collaborative - We value teamwork, the spirit of collaboration and the results of working together.
  • Driven - We have drive and ambition and always push for the best results rather than settling.
  • Adaptable - Demonstrating the ability to adapt ultimately helps us grow and helps us thrive in different situations

We value diversity and as an equal opportunity employer we encourage applications from all suitable applicants. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.

Please see Hutch Privacy Policy for details on how Hutch uses your personal data.

Come and find out more about Hutch. We make racing games, but it’s not the only thing that drives us - https://www.hutch.io/

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About The Company

Hutch has been voted one of the Best Places to Work in the gamesindustry.biz awards for the last 3 years in a row! Since inception in 2011, we've entertained over 300 million mobile players across game titles including Rebel Racing, F1® Clash, Top Drives, and Hot Wheels: Race Off. We’re dedicated to growing the racing genre on mobile, and enabling communities of players worldwide to celebrate their passion for cars.

People make games, and our people are the heart and soul of Hutch. We’ve created a work environment that we’re proud of and enjoy spending time in. As a team, we work together and play together. We take on creative and technical challenges to make great games and have fun along the way.

Teams at Hutch have the freedom and responsibility to make the best decisions for the players, and we are committed to making their working lives as easy and as simple as possible.

We’ve created an award-winning culture for our 100+ world-class team members, housed in our main studio in Shoreditch, London, with wider studios situated in Dundee and Canada. In December 2020 Hutch was acquired by Modern Times Group (MTG) to further accelerate opportunities to build highly diverse automotive experiences on mobile. 

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