Your Role within our Kingdom
This is a pivotal leadership role at the heart of King’s financial decision-making and operating rhythm. As Finance Director, Central Finance, you will shape how the company plans, forecasts, measures, and communicates financial performance, providing the insight, rigor, and operational leadership that underpin strategic decisions at the most senior levels.
You will lead the Central Finance team, owning end-to-end financial consolidation, planning, pacing, and reporting across King, ensuring leadership has clear, timely, and actionable insight on performance, risks, and opportunities.
Partnering closely with the CFO, Finance Leadership Team, King SLT, Gaming Finance, Microsoft Finance, and broader business stakeholders, you will play a critical role in driving alignment, accountability, and Finance excellence across the organisation.
This is a high-impact opportunity to lead a team of finance professionals while driving operational rigor, continuous improvement, and high-quality decision support across business-critical areas of the company.
Key Responsibilities
Financial Planning & Forecasting
- Own end-to-end financial consolidation and reporting across actuals, forecasts, pacing, budgets, and long‑range planning
- Lead company‑wide forecasting and planning cycles, ensuring alignment, accuracy, rigor, and clear decision support for leadership
- Drive high standards across forecasting processes, governance, and operational execution
- Ensure planning cycles operate with pace, consistency, accountability, and clear stakeholder alignment
Reporting, Insight & Decision Support
- Deliver clear, timely, and actionable performance insights to senior leadership and executive forums
- Translate complex financial outputs into compelling narratives that support executive and board‑level decision‑making
- Proactively identify risks and opportunities, driving accountability and follow‑through across the organisation
- Own performance tracking against key targets and ensure alignment across Finance and business stakeholders
- Support leadership decision‑making through high‑quality analysis, insight, and communication
Systems, Models & Governance
- Ensure integrity, accuracy, and robustness of financial models, forecasts, and reporting outputs
- Evolve tools, automation, and data quality to enhance scalability, efficiency, and insight generation
- Implement strong controls, governance, and documentation across all planning and reporting processes
- Continuously improve processes and ways of working to support a fast‑paced and evolving business environment
Leadership & Business Partnership
- Lead, develop, and inspire a high‑performing team of Finance professionals
- Act as a trusted advisor and strategic partner to senior stakeholders across King and Microsoft
- Build strong cross‑functional relationships to ensure Finance has a clear, credible, and influential voice
- Partner closely with the CFO, Finance Leadership Team, Gaming Finance, and business leaders on enterprise‑wide financial priorities
- Create clarity, ownership, and accountability across teams and stakeholders
What Success Looks Like
- Leadership has clear, timely, and actionable insight to drive decisions confidently
- Forecasting, pacing, and planning processes are accurate, aligned, rigorous, and trusted across the business
- Central Finance is viewed as a highly credible, strategic, and execution‑focused partner
- Consolidation and reporting processes operate efficiently, consistently, and at high quality
- Risks and opportunities are surfaced proactively with clear actions and accountability
- A high‑performing, engaged team delivering strong results in a fast‑paced environment
Skills To Create Thrills
Influence & Communication
- Exceptional communicator and storyteller, able to simplify complex financial data for diverse audiences
- Strong executive presence with the ability to engage, influence, and challenge senior leadership stakeholders
- Confident operating in high‑visibility leadership environments with clarity and credibility
Strategic & Commercial Acumen
- Extensive FP&A leadership experience in complex, fast‑paced environments
- Strong understanding of key business drivers including revenue, marketing, resourcing, and operational performance
- Able to balance strategic thinking with operational execution and attention to detail
Leadership
- Proven ability to build, lead, and scale high‑performing teams
- Creates clarity, ownership, accountability, and momentum across teams
- High‑energy, proactive leader with a strong ownership mindset
Execution & Delivery
- Strong track record of leading high‑quality consolidation, planning, and reporting cycles
- Exceptional prioritisation, process management, and organisational skills
- Thrives in fast‑paced, high‑accountability environments with multiple competing priorities
- Drives operational rigor and consistently delivers at a high standard
Analytical & Problem Solving
- Highly analytical with strong financial modelling capability
- Able to translate complex data into actionable insights that drive business outcomes
- Comfortable operating in ambiguity and solving complex problems with structure and clarity
Mindset
- Highly proactive, self‑starting, and solutions‑oriented
- Adaptable and resilient in a dynamic and evolving environment
- Drives continuous improvement and challenges the status quo to raise standards
Bonus Points
- Finance‑related degree and ACA/CIMA/ACCA qualification (or international equivalent), or equivalent experience
- Experience with enterprise planning systems such as Hyperion, TM1, or similar
- Experience with BI tools such as Looker
