Commercial Finance Manager

This Commercial Finance Manager role supports the leadership teams of Farm Heroes Saga and King’s Catalog titles. The manager will partner with product and business leaders to provide financial insight, challenge, and strategic support, ensuring new initiatives are robustly evaluated and titles are optimized for long-term performance. Responsibilities include leading forecasting, monitoring performance, delivering insights, and supporting business cases to drive stronger outcomes.

Must Have

• Act as a trusted finance partner to Farm and Catalog leadership
• Provide input on investment decisions, product roadmaps, and portfolio optimisation
• Lead the forecasting process for Farm and Catalog
• Monitor and assess financial and commercial performance of games
• Identify risks, opportunities, and areas for deeper analysis
• Deliver proactive insights into revenue, monetisation, and player performance
• Partner with stakeholders on business cases and memos
• Ensure financial rationale supports investment decisions
• Work with product, marketing, analytics, and strategy teams
• Support deep dives, scenario analysis, and strategic projects
• Proven experience in a finance business partnering role
• Strong commercial acumen with understanding of revenue drivers, monetisation, and portfolio management
• Ability to challenge and influence senior stakeholders
• Skilled at shaping forecasts and translating strategies into financial outlooks
• Highly analytical, comfortable with large datasets and financial models
• Excellent communication skills to translate analysis into actionable insights

Craft:

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Job Description:

Commercial Finance Manager – Farm and Catalog

This key role is integral to supporting the leadership teams of the iconic Farm Heroes Saga and King’s portfolio of Catalog titles. You will partner closely with product and business leaders to provide financial insight, challenge, and strategic support, ensuring new initiatives are robustly evaluated and our Farm and Catalog titles are optimised for long-term performance. Working alongside the Commercial FP&A team, you will shape forecasts, assess opportunities, and deliver insights that drive stronger business outcomes.

Your role within our Kingdom

Key Responsibilities:

Strategic Partnering: Act as a trusted finance partner to Farm and Catalog leadership, providing input on investment decisions, product roadmaps, and portfolio optimisation.

Forecasting & Planning: Lead the forecasting process for Farm and Catalog by shaping assumptions, aligning with stakeholders, and reviewing outputs in collaboration with FP&A. Ensure plans are ambitious yet grounded in sound financial logic.

Performance Management: Monitor and assess the financial and commercial performance of Farm and Catalog games, identifying risks, opportunities, and areas requiring deeper analysis. Provide timely updates to leadership teams.

Insight & Challenge: Deliver proactive insights into revenue, monetisation, and player performance, constructively challenging assumptions to drive stronger outcomes.

Business Cases & New Initiatives: Partner with stakeholders on business cases and memos for Farm and Catalog, ensuring clear financial rationale supports investment decisions.

Cross-Functional Engagement: Work with product, marketing, analytics, and strategy teams to ensure financial perspectives are embedded in key forums such as roadmap reviews, product reviews, and domain leadership meetings.

Ad Hoc Projects: Support deep dives, scenario analysis, and strategic projects across Farm and Catalog portfolio, helping to evaluate emerging opportunities and optimise ongoing initiatives.

Skills and Experience:

Proven experience in a finance business partnering role within a global, fast-paced industry (gaming, tech, or digital preferred).

Strong commercial acumen, with understanding of revenue drivers, monetisation, and portfolio management.

Demonstrated ability to challenge and influence senior stakeholders while building trusted relationships.

Skilled at shaping forecasts and translating product and commercial strategies into robust financial outlooks.

Highly analytical, comfortable working with large datasets and building financial models to support decision-making.

Excellent communication skills, with the ability to translate complex analysis into clear, actionable insights.

About King

With a mission of Making the World Playful, King is a leading interactive entertainment company with more than 20 years of history of delivering some of the world’s most iconic games in the mobile gaming industry, including the world-famous Candy Crush franchise, as well as other mobile game hits such as Farm Heroes Saga. King games are played by more than 200 million monthly active users. King, part of Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), has Kingsters in Stockholm, Malmö, London, Barcelona, Berlin, Dublin, San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles and Malta. More information can be found at King.com or by following us on LinkedIn, @lifeatking on Instagram, or @king_games on X.

About Us

We bring moments of magic to hundreds of millions of people every single day. We create unforgettable games that are loved around the world.

We take the art and science of gaming to the next level through curiosity for the unexplored, passion for games, respect for each other, and love for our players.

Who we are

King is a leading interactive entertainment company for the mobile world, with people all around the world playing one or more of our games, including franchises such as Candy Crush, Farm Heroes, Pet Rescue and Bubble Witch. We have 249 million monthly active users as of fourth quarter 2019 across web, social and mobile platforms. King was acquired by Activision Blizzard Inc. (Nasdaq ATVI) in February 2016 and operates as an independent unit of the company.

Our passion

Making great games is incredibly challenging but we’ve proven it can be done… and we see a world of possibilities ahead. We’re challenging ourselves to dream bigger in a Seriously Playful way. We’re experimenting, learning, and adapting continuously to shape the industry in ways yet to be imagined.

We’re passionate about bringing moments of magic to our players and we’re not afraid to have fun along the way. Above all, we play as a team, helping each other have impact on a massive scale. And we’ll know we’ve outdone ourselves when we’ve inspired the world to play.

If you share our passion, our values, and our hunger to shape the future, join us in Making the World Playful!

Together, we’ll create new experiences that raise the bar, delight billions of people, and redefine the world of games again and again.

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