Finance Analyst

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Sector: Finance and Accounts
Role: Analyst
Contract Type: Permanent
Hours: Full Time

Join our journey to create a new experience for the National Lottery and help us to power change for the greater good.

About us:
We are Allwyn UK, part of the Allwyn Entertainment Group - a multi-national lottery operator with a market-leading presence in Austria, the Czech Republic, Greece, Cyprus, and Italy. We have been officially awarded the Fourth Licence (10 year licence) to operate the National Lottery starting February 2024.

We've developed ground-breaking technologies, built player protection frameworks, and have a proven track record of making lotteries better. Our aim is 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.

Role Purpose:

• We are looking for an experienced and commercially-focused accountant and business partner to manage the Marketing & Product budget.
• This will include accurate budgeting, forecasting, reporting, and business partnering to the Marketing & Product Team. Costs include Marketing, Product & People costs
• In addition, this role will allow scope to be involved in commercial projects and new reporting creation and development.

Business partner to work across multiple workstreams and projects to provide finance support to new initiatives, taking advantage of growth and cost-saving opportunities to maximise returns to Good Causes and company profit.

Role Responsibilities:

• Own all month-end, budget, and reforecast processes to ensure timely and accurate reporting.
• Clear financial control applied - financial assumptions are captured and understood. Concise balance sheet ownership, Risks & Ops, GRIR balances.
• Ownership of month-end performance updates, including detailed analysis and commentary to communicate performance to internal and external stakeholders.
• Own resource requests and present at bi-weekly meetings. Validate people costs reporting.
• Communicate appropriately within Finance working closely with FP&A and Cost team.
• Provide financial modelling & reporting as required. Support Marketing Scorecard.
• Lead on process improvement - new ways to simplify and speed up current processes.
• Develop reporting packs to track actual spend vs budget/forecast, spend to go, risks, and opportunities etc.
• Provide financial support and guidance to initiatives for queries of an ad-hoc nature.
• Work closely with Finance Graduate to handover some BAU processing to support their development.

Key Skills and Experience:

• Qualified accountant (ACCA, CIMA, ACA).
• Advanced Excel Modelling and PowerPoint skills.
• Excellent analytical skills and attention to detail.
• Business partnering - ability to work cross-functionally with both finance and non-finance colleagues.
• Ability to work independently, create own priorities and manage upwards accordingly.
• Able to work in a fast-paced environment.
• Commercial experience beneficial but not essential.
• Understanding of Lottery/Gaming industry beneficial.
• Use of Enterprise Financial Systems such as forecasting and data visualisation tools. SAP/SAC/BPC a plus.

Our goal is 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.

Company

Our vision is to grow the National Lottery responsibly, making it bigger, better, and safer for all, with more to good causes.

Bigger because we will significantly increase Good Causes contributions by the end of the Fourth Licence through responsible growth of people playing.

Better because we will modernise technology and operations, refresh games and support shops while improving the use of data and digital.

Safer because participant protection underpins everything we do.

What is unique about us?

Our preparations to transform the National Lottery will be a once-in-a-lifetime type of project in the lottery industry, anywhere in the world. Join our journey to create a new experience for the National Lottery and help us to power change for the greater good.

Our approach

In Allwyn, the National Lottery will have an operator that has social value at its heart. We will raise more funding for Good Causes while running our own business in an environmentally and socially responsible way. That's why we have committed to an ambitious Social Value framework, which is woven into the way we do business. We believe that lotteries must serve everyone across society, not just those who play. So whether as an employee, a supplier, a retailer, or any of the stakeholders that we interact with, we will be powering good across the UK.

We are working to make the National Lottery truly accessible in a safe way, whether as a player, a retailer, or an employee. We are proud to have been a partner with Purple since 2021 to support our work to embed accessibility into everything we do. Purple has carried out an accessibility audit on our office in Watford, is working with us to have truly inclusive workplace policies, and we have exciting plans to do so much more to make our games, both in-store and online, safely accessible.

Come and help us shape what the future of the National Lottery could look like.

Media Clips

"I became an amputee in 2021 and I struggled to find my place back in the working world until Allwyn welcomed me with open arms. They have always focused on what I bring to the table and it is apparent that my disability is not what defines me within the company, but my skill. Allwyn has a noticeable strong focus on accessibility and inclusion, which makes me feel seen and like I have found a permanent home for my career." Lorna Jeanes, Transition Co-ordinator.