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Your Role within our KingdomKing's Central Finance team plays a critical role in enabling high-quality financial planning, forecasting, reporting and decision-making across the business, providing the insight, governance and operational excellence that underpin Finance and business decisions.
As a Senior Finance Analyst in Central Finance, you will own key Central Finance system processes and continuously improve the process backbone that enables Finance to deliver accurate forecasting, planning and reporting cycles. You’ll help ensure planning inputs, reporting outputs and core finance processes are accurate, well controlled and delivered on time. Working closely with Central Finance, Financial Systems and Finance Business Partner teams, you’ll contribute to clearer processes, delivering insight and more efficient ways of working.
Key ResponsibilitiesFinancial Planning, Systems & Reporting
- Support key Finance planning cycles by coordinating end-to-end inputs, maintaining system readiness and helping ensure timelines and dependencies are well managed.
- Validate and reconcile financial inputs and outputs, identifying issues, resolving discrepancies and escalating risks where appropriate.
- Prepare and maintain accurate reporting and KPI outputs, ensuring they are controlled, clearly documented and delivered in line with reporting timelines.
Process Ownership & Continuous Improvement
- Maintain and improve assigned Central Finance processes so they are efficient, repeatable, well controlled and clearly documented.
- Work with Financial Systems and Finance teams to support testing, resolve recurring issues and implement practical process improvements.
- Support recurring allocations, recharges, adjustments and other centrally managed Finance processes, ensuring outputs are reviewed, reconciled and communicated clearly.
Stakeholder Collaboration & Delivery
- Build effective relationships across Central Finance, Financial Systems, Finance Business Partner teams and wider stakeholders.
- Communicate clearly on planning activities, reporting outputs, system issues and process changes.
- Take ownership of agreed workstreams, following through on actions, anticipating questions and keeping stakeholders aligned on progress.
Essential Skills
- Good understanding of FP&A processes, including forecasting, planning, reporting, financial controls, month-close dependencies and the judgement required to apply them accurately within policy.
- Experience working with finance systems, planning tools or reporting platforms, with confidence validating outputs and reconciling data.
- Strong Excel and analytical skills, with the ability to interpret financial information, identify issues and explain key drivers clearly.
- Organised and detail-oriented, with a strong focus on accuracy, controls, documentation and timely delivery.
- Clear communicator who works well with stakeholders across Finance and Systems, follows through on actions and contributes positively to team ways of working.
- ACA, ACCA or CIMA qualified, working towards qualification, or equivalent experience.
- Experience with Oracle Hyperion or other Enterprise Performance Management systems.
- Experience with Power BI, SQL, reporting automation or process improvement tools.
About King
With a mission of Making the World Playful, King is a leading interactive entertainment company for the mobile world 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 titles 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 and @lifeatking on Instagram.
Skills Required
- Good understanding of FP&A processes including forecasting, planning, reporting and financial controls
- Experience working with finance systems, planning tools or reporting platforms and validating outputs
- Strong Excel and analytical skills
- Organised, detail-oriented with focus on accuracy, controls, documentation and timely delivery
- Clear communicator with ability to work with stakeholders across Finance and Systems
- ACA, ACCA or CIMA qualified or working towards qualification (or equivalent experience)
- Experience with Oracle Hyperion or other Enterprise Performance Management systems
- Experience with Power BI, SQL, reporting automation or process improvement tools
King Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about King and has not been reviewed or approved by King.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Paid vacation, floating holidays, sick time, a winter holiday break, and substantial paid leaves for life events are part of the package. Offerings are localized by country while maintaining generous time-away support.
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Healthcare Strength — Multiple medical plan options, preventive care coverage, company HSA/HRA contributions, and mental‑health resources are highlighted. Access is tailored to local systems and includes fitness program options.
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Parental & Family Support — Enhanced leave for all parents and family‑building support such as adoption and surrogacy reimbursement are emphasized. Additional paid compassion and bereavement leaves extend support for caregiving needs.
King Insights
What We Do
King is a leading interactive entertainment company in the mobile world. We create unforgettable games that are played around the world every single day, like Candy Crush, our sweet phenomenon. King is an independent unit of Activision Blizzard Inc. which acquired King in February 2016.
