This senior finance leadership role is integral to supporting King’s games teams. You will partner closely with General Managers and Leadership Teams to shape commercial and financial strategy, provide insight and challenge, and ensure performance and plans are aligned with senior leadership expectations.

Working alongside a strong Commercial FP&A function, you will play a key role in driving forecasting direction, business insight, and strategic decision support, helping to ensure King’s portfolio of games continues to perform and evolve in line with company priorities.

Your role within the Kingdom

Key Responsibilities:

Strategic Partnering: Act as a trusted finance leader to senior stakeholders across the organisation, providing input and challenge on commercial strategy, resource allocation, and investment decisions.
Forecasting & Planning: Lead forecasting and planning activities for parts of King’s portfolio, shaping assumptions, aligning with business stakeholders, and reviewing outputs in partnership with FP&A. Ensure plans balance ambition with realism and are clearly articulated to senior leadership.
Performance Management: Monitor and assess business performance on a weekly and monthly basis, identifying risks, opportunities, and areas requiring deeper analysis. Provide clear updates, insight, and recommendations to leadership forums.
Insight Generation: Translate financial and non‑financial data into meaningful insights that inform strategic decision‑making. Lead analytical deep dives and modelling for new initiatives, changes in strategy, or emerging opportunities.
Cross-Functional Collaboration: Build strong relationships across game teams, marketing, strategy, and other central functions, ensuring financial implications are embedded into investment reviews, roadmap discussions, and leadership meetings.
Strategic Projects & Business Cases: Partner with stakeholders to develop business cases for new initiatives, long‑range planning, and significant commercial decisions. Work closely with FP&A to deliver robust financial analysis and modelling.
Leadership Influence: Represent games’ financial perspective in senior forums, ensuring clarity, alignment, and credibility in the way performance and strategy are communicated.

Skills and Experience:

Proven experience as a senior finance business partner in a fast-paced global organisation (gaming, tech, or digital industries preferred).
Strong commercial acumen, with a deep understanding of the drivers of revenue growth, monetisation, and marketing performance in a digital business.
Demonstrated ability to influence and challenge senior leadership, with confidence in advocating for strategic priorities in senior forums.
Skilled at translating financial and non-financial metrics into actionable insights and narratives for business leaders.
Excellent communication and storytelling skills, with the ability to land clear, compelling performance narratives.
Experience leading business cases, evaluating investment opportunities, and shaping commercial strategy.
Collaborative and trusted relationship-builder, able to work seamlessly across diverse functions and disciplines.

A Great Saga Needs All Sorts of Heroes

King strives to be a place where everyone can be their most authentic self. We recognize that diversity, equity and inclusion is a vital and continuous conversation, and that change only happens when we all come together. It’s our mission to build a diverse and inclusive Kingdom for our people, players, and community.

Making the World Playful

Making the World Playful is our mission – it’s the thread that connects our people, our players, and our passion for our games. Let’s face it, who doesn’t love a bit of fun?

Kingsters are seriously playful: creative thinkers who balance art and science to bring moments of magic to millions daily. But our players aren’t the only ones that can level-up. We’re always looking for ways to champion each other and make what’s already great, even better.

So, if this feels like a fun way to spend your days, and you share our passion, our values, and our hunger to shape the future, join us in Making the World Playful.

About King

With a mission of Making the World Playful, King is a leading interactive entertainment company 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 game hits 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, @lifeatking on Instagram, or @king_games on X.

Associate Director, Commercial Finance - Games