Senior Finance Business Partner - Lotto & Instant Win Games at Allwyn UK

Watford, England, United Kingdom -

Full Time

Start Date

Immediate

Expiry Date

18 Feb, 26

Salary

0.0

Posted On

20 Nov, 25

Experience

5 year(s) or above

Remote Job

Yes

Telecommute

Yes

Sponsor Visa

Skills

Qualified Accountant, Numerical Analysis, Data Interpretation, Interpersonal Skills, Commercial Awareness, Performance Management, Advanced Excel Skills, Financial Modelling, Strategic Mindset, Self-Starter, Attention To Detail, SAP Analytics Cloud, Power BI, Strong Communication Skills, Trusted Business Partner

Industry

Entertainment Providers

Description

We are looking for an experienced Senior Finance Business Partner to join the Commercial Planning and Trading team to support commercial decision making across key parts of the organisation. This senior role within the team will partner the Head of Lotto and Head of Interactive Instant Win Games (IIWGs) to drive their categories commercial growth ambitions What you’ll be doing… Main finance point of contact for Lotto and IIWG’s game categories providing senior business partner support to the Head of Lotto and Head of Interactive Instant Win Games across all commercial activities to drive forward the commercial growth ambition of the two games. Lead the end-to-end P&L management from gross sales revenue to net margin, ensuring performance drivers versus target is fully understood and clearly articulated, alongside the identification of any risks or opportunities to the category’s commercial targets. Lead category forecasting across the P&L ensuring its reflective of current performance trends, planned future activity and supports the growth ambitions of the business. This will include providing regular commercial outturns and developing the forecasts as part of the annual planning process and quarterly reforecasting cycles. Provide finance support for critical ‘Go to Market’ activities including KPI development such as Sales, Player Participation and ARPU targets to ensure the business can effectively monitor the performance of new initiatives and identify of any commercial risks / opportunities associated with its launch and subsequent execution against key assumptions. Lead the development, analysis and oversight for the commercial cases for new activity. This includes developing commercial models to forecast the impact of the activity, working with key stakeholders and analytical teams to develop robust assumptions, developing stakeholder presentations and business cases outlining the planned impact of the activity. Hold performance reviews and benefit tracking of commercial activity, collaborating with wider analytical teams across the business as required, challenging where necessary to ensure there is a clear commercial narrative and understanding of performance. This includes supporting post investment review and benefit realisation of business cases. Own and manage the management and monitoring of prize funds, which includes financial control requirements as well as ensuring these are utilised to maximise returns to good causes, whilst ensuring its use meets our regulatory obligations and licence commitments. Provide finance support for jackpot estimation process for each draw ensuring marketing and channel content and representation of game jackpots are accurate and in line with our licence requirements. Manage cost control of IIWG game development costs, ensuring its use delivers optimal net margin and is line with forecast expectations. We are Allwyn UK, part of the Allwyn Entertainment Group – a multi-national lottery operator with a market-leading presence across Europe which includes: Czech Republic, Austria, Greece, Cyprus & Italy. While the main contribution of The National Lottery to society is through the funds to good causes, at Allwyn we put our purpose and values at the heart of everything we do. Join us as we embark on a once-in-a-lifetime, largescale transformation journey by creating a National Lottery that delivers more money to good causes. ‍We’ve developed ground-breaking technologies, built player protection frameworks, and have a proven track record of making lotteries better. Innovation - We pride ourselves on it! We’re constantly looking for new ways to excite our customers, bringing new products to enjoy which is all underpinned by our responsible play values and making them accessible to all. Giving back – Did you know that playing the lottery generates around £30m a week for charities and good causes in the UK? Our aim is to have doubled this number by the end of the first 10-year licence Sustainability – Our aim to be net zero by 2030 which would make us the first lottery provider globally to achieve this Inclusion and accessibility – We are making all parts of The National Lottery inclusive – whether you play a game in a store or online. We want to create one of the UK’s most inclusive organisations – where people can bring the best of themselves, to do their best work, every day, for the benefit of good causes. Allwyn is an Equal Opportunity Employer which prides itself in being diverse and inclusive. We do not tolerate discrimination, harassment, or victimisation in the workplace. All employment decisions at Allwyn are based on the business needs, the job requirements, and the individual qualifications. Allwyn encourages applications from individuals regardless of age, disability (visible or hidden), sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships. We are a Disability Confident Leader which means we’ve taken proactive steps to ensure our workplace is accessible and inclusive for disabled colleagues and candidates. As part of this we offer an interview to disabled applicants who meet the essential requirements of the job. If you need any assistance or adjustments to this job description or in the application process, please contact a member of the talent team at careers@allwyn.co.uk and we’ll be happy to help. Qualified accountant (ACCA, CIMA, ACA) Highly numerate with the ability to analyse, model and interpret data, including large data sets. Strong interpersonal skills and able to articulate complex financial and non-financial information to non-finance stakeholders especially using MS PowerPoint Commercial awareness and ability to apply this to performance management, decision making and commercial recommendations Experience in a similar Commercial Finance role. Advanced MS Excel skills (Lookups, Pivots, Data Visualisation), data manipulation and financial modelling Strategic mindset including ability to influence at all levels. Self-starter with a keen attention to detail, independent thinking and ability to prioritise workload and key tasks Experience with SAP Analytics Cloud preferred. Experience with Power BI tools preferred Strong communication skills - will have regular exposure to senior stakeholders and a range of stakeholders across different parts of the business Trusted business partner - will engage a wide variety of stakeholders across the business 26 days paid leave (plus bank holidays) Annual bonus scheme 2 x Life Days 4 x Salary of Life Insurance Pension: we’ll match your contribution up to 8.5% Single Private Health Cover £500 Wellness Allowance Income Protection Enhanced parental leave (maternity and paternity) Eye Care, Dental and Cycle To Work schemes

Responsibilities

The Senior Finance Business Partner will serve as the main finance contact for Lotto and IIWG’s game categories, providing support to drive commercial growth. Responsibilities include P&L management, category forecasting, and finance support for critical market activities.