Finance Business Partner London, England
Job description
Company Summary
Product Madness is a Global Powerhouse where the greatest mobile games and experiences are crafted by world-class talent. A top-grossing leader in free to play mobile games, we have more than 800 team members working across seven global talent hubs including London (headquarters), USA, Canada, Spain, Poland and Ukraine. With remarkable hit games including Heart of Vegas, Cashman Casino, Lighting Link and Big Fish Casino, we boast more than 50 million active users and 400 million downloads and counting.
We are Mad about games and the way they bring people together, and that passion and culture is what brings us together as a studio, connects us with our partners we collaborate with, and is what links us to our sister studios across the world.
Product Madness is an Aristocrat Technologies company within its digital game’s division of Pixel United.
Job Posting Title
Finance Business PartnerSummary
You will join us as our new Finance Business Partner predominately supporting our P&C (People and culture) & Data departments. You will report directly to the Head of FP&A and you will be a key point of contact within the Finance team within our UK Support Functions and our European/US Studios. You will become a trusted embedded Business Partner, assisting with core decision making, challenging where appropriate and adding value to drive business strategy.What You'll Do
Business Partnering
Providing analysis and assessment of performance against the agreed yearly plan and forecasts monthly, quarterly, and annually to support decision making.
Holding monthly reviews, ensuring that stakeholders can interpret and understand the numbers presented.
Using insights and feedback to continuously improve the Business Partnering Relationship and provide better reporting and analysis.
Building strong trusted relationships with key stakeholders.
Proactively managing cost base to agreed targets within your relevant business areas, both $ and headcount.
Liaising with key stakeholders to continually drive ‘value add’ and ‘continuous improvement’ across the business.
Partnering with key stakeholders to assist with business cases, due diligence processes and analytics to support strategic initiatives, and closely monitor and manage related spend.
Planning and Forecasting
Accountable for production of planning and forecast models, ensuring that data and information provided is accurate, insightful, understandable and user friendly.
Input to the planning and forecasting cycle process for relevant business areas.
Partnering with key stakeholders to critically review and challenge plans and forecasts.
Ensuring accurate plans and forecasts are loaded into the planning tool as required and delivery deadlines are adhered to.
Assisting with the design, communication, messaging, and management of annual planning process including challenge to the businesses of data submitted.
Ownership of ongoing scenario analysis to understand potential outcomes throughout the year.
Critically and proactively review process after each cycle, making and suggesting improvement opportunities.
Accountable for production of planning and forecast models, ensuring that data and information provided is accurate, insightful, understandable and user friendly.
Why should you work for us
As well as the opportunity to work for a people first organisation where you will be able to grow and develop your career. We also offer some outstanding benefits that include:
Yearly Bonus
Pension scheme up to 10% matched
25 Days Annual leave + Christmas Closure + Birthday off + Wellness days + Bank holidays
Hybrid working arrangements to suit you
£250 (one off payment) Work from home allowance to set up your home office
Private Medical Insurance + Dental Insurance
£50 a month wellness budget spend it toward your gym or massage for example
£40 a month Uber Eats Voucher
Access to Perkbox + Yulife
Enhanced Parental Leave
+Many More
What We're Looking For
What would we need from you?
Qualified Accountant (ACA/ACCA/CIMA or equivalent).
Several years of experience in accounting & FP&A preferably in a Gaming or Tech Company.
Business partnering experience
A “can do” mindset, adaptable and flexible.
Outstanding communication skills both written and verbal
Resilient and capable of managing multiple priorities.
System skills: Advanced Excel skills. Ideally Microsoft Dynamics 365 and TM1 - but not essential.
Ability to hit the ground running and to work independently.
Strong problem solving and analytical skills; must be able to partner effectively with all levels of the organisation.
A self-starting individual, initiating action without the need to be prompted by others.
Why Product Madness?
Product Madness is so much more than just a Pool table and a foosball game.
We believe in an honest and transparent approach with our teammates. Company wide weekly Town Halls, All Hands and strategy meetings are just a few ways in which we encourage an open and honest path to achieving complete transparency.
Despite a pandemic, there isn’t a day where we don’t feel connected to one another.
With frequent events, workshops, giveaways, slack coffee and donut sessions we have definitely brought on our office culture to this new virtual world of zoom calls.
We also try to cater for all our staff’s needs – be that a freshly brewed cappuccino made by our professional barista in our free coffee shop or by providing a bountiful supply of tasty snacks to keep us refueled and buzzing.
We love to organise plenty of social get-togethers and action-packed activity days, be it slipping inside an inflatable bumper ball for a mad session of football zorbing or throwing caution to the wind and traversing giddy treetop rope courses at Go Ape. On top of these team-building activities, our lunch and learn workshops, not to mention the lavish Christmas and summer parties, foster that ‘work hard, play hard’ mantra. Our offices are based in the heart of the metropolises of London and Lviv, surrounded by an abundance of diversity and inspiration to keep those ideas flowing.
Our Values
People First
We have the deepest respect for our people and their well being. We know they are exceptionally talented and will always have a choice. We want them to re-choose us every day. We are committed to building a culture where each person's voice will always be heard and addressed.
MAD for More
Always improving, innovating and never settling for the existing. We push all boundaries with courage and ambition to become the world’s best games company.
Champion Together
We excel at what we do but yet remain humble and helpful to our teammates. We champion one another and hold each other to high standards without any egos.
Globally Inclusive
We are all Equal - regardless of the language we speak, where we live, our gender, religion or culture we come from. We want to build a global home, where everyone has the equal opportunity to make an impact.
Customer Focused
We always think from the customer's perspective - be it players or internal customers.
Improving their experience and joy is what drives us. Every client's success is our big win!
