Director, Commercial Finance

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Job Description:

Director, Commercial Finance – Candy

We’re looking for a Director of Commercial Finance to join the King Finance team! This key role is integral to supporting the leadership team of one of our most iconic titles, Candy Crush Saga. You will partner closely with game leadership to drive financial and commercial strategies, unlocking value and ensuring the continued success of the game.

Your role within the Kingdom

Key Responsibilities:

• Establish credibility as a trusted business partner to the Candy Crush Saga leadership team, providing financial advice and insights on all commercial matters, including revenue, marketing, resourcing, and new business opportunities.
• Translating financial and non-financial metrics into actionable operating plans to support business partners in driving the business forward. Provide supportive challenge and valuable insights to improve decision-making and business performance.
• Lead, develop, and grow a team of six finance professionals, including three direct reports, ensuring they possess a balance of commercial and technical skills. Foster a culture of integrity, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Deliver operational excellence across core planning processes, driving ongoing improvements and implementing enhancements to financial controls and processes.
• Stay informed about industry trends and competitors, finding opportunities and mitigating risks. Provide insights to guide the strategic direction of Candy Crush Saga.
• Partner with finance teams to lead efficiency improvement initiatives, optimizing the use of resources and driving cost-effective strategies.
• Prepare and present monthly financial reporting packs, including both financial and non-financial critical metrics, to the game leadership team and other senior executives. Perform ad hoc financial analysis and reporting to support game-specific initiatives.

Skills and Experience:

• Proven experience gained in a global mobile gaming company or a similar fast-paced, dynamic industry, with a deep understanding of revenue drivers, marketing channels, and resourcing requirements.
• Strong commercial competence, with the ability to understand the relationships between key financial and non-financial business drivers.
• Demonstrable experience  building, leading, and inspiring impactful teams, setting clear goals, and organizing work effectively.
• Confidence and gravitas in partnering with and challenging senior leadership, with excellent business partnering experience in a fast-paced tech company.
• Comfortable working with large datasets and translating results into meaningful analysis and forecasts. Advanced Excel skills with experience in building robust financial models.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, capable of presenting sophisticated financial issues in clear, simple language to non-finance teams and key stakeholders.
• Advanced PowerPoint skills, with the ability to create professional presentations and advanced graphs that clearly articulate key points and actionable insights.
• Ability to maintain quality work, meet rigorous timelines, and lead process improvements across gaming operations.

About King

At King, we're Making the World Playful. Heard of Candy Crush? We're the creators behind it. With game studios in Stockholm, Malmö, London, Barcelona and Berlin, and offices in Dublin, San Francisco, New York, and Malta, we have a 20-year history of delivering some of the world's most iconic games in the mobile gaming industry and are on a mission to level-up the little moments for our more than 200 million active monthly users. But we aren't just crushing it with candies, we're also behind Farm Heroes, Bubble Witch, Pet Rescue and loads of other sweet games. As a leading interactive entertainment company for the mobile world, King is part of Activision Blizzard, which was acquired by Microsoft.