Senior Finance Business Partner - Lotto & Instant Win Games

Allwyn International; Watford; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading lottery operator is seeking a Senior Finance Business Partner to support the Lotto and Instant Win Games sectors. This role focuses on P&L management, category forecasting, and strategic commercial support to drive growth. The ideal candidate is a qualified accountant with strong analytical skills and extensive experience in commercial finance. This position demands excellent communication and interpersonal skills, along with advanced Excel expertise.

Benefits

26 days paid leave (plus bank holidays)

Annual bonus scheme

Pension matching up to 8.5%

Single Private Health Cover

£500 Wellness Allowance

Enhanced parental leave

Eye Care and Dental schemes

Qualifications

• Experience in a similar commercial finance role required.
• Ability to communicate complex information to non-finance stakeholders.
• Must have strong analytical and data interpretation skills.

Responsibilities

• Support commercial decision making for Lotto and IIWG categories.
• Lead P&L management and forecasting activities.
• Provide finance support for critical ‘Go to Market’ activities.

Skills

Qualified accountant (ACCA, CIMA, ACA)

Highly numerate with analytical skills

Strong interpersonal skills

Commercial awareness

Experience in a similar role

Advanced MS Excel skills

Strategic mindset

Self-starter with attention to detail

Experience with SAP Analytics Cloud

Experience with Power BI tools

Strong communication skills

Trusted business partner

Education

Qualified accountant (ACCA, CIMA, ACA)

Tools

SAP Analytics Cloud

Power BI

MS Excel

Job description

Senior Finance Business Partner – Lotto & Instant Win Games

We are looking for an experienced Senior Finance Business Partner to join the Commercial Planning and Trading team to support commercial decision making across key parts of the organisation. This senior role within the team will partner the Head of Lotto and Head of Interactive Instant Win Games (IIWGs) to drive their categories commercial growth ambitions.

What you’ll be doing

• Main finance point of contact for Lotto and IIWG game categories, providing senior business partner support to the Head of Lotto and Head of Interactive Instant Win Games across all commercial activities to drive forward the commercial growth ambition of the two games.
• Lead end‑to‑end P&L management from gross sales revenue to net margin, ensuring performance drivers versus target are fully understood and clearly articulated, alongside the identification of any risks or opportunities to the category’s commercial targets.
• Lead category forecasting across the P&L, ensuring it reflects current performance trends, planned future activity and supports the growth ambitions of the business. This includes providing regular commercial outturns and developing the forecasts as part of the annual planning process and quarterly reforecasting cycles.
• Provide finance support for critical ‘Go to Market’ activities including KPI development such as Sales, Player Participation and ARPU targets to ensure the business can effectively monitor the performance of new initiatives and identify any commercial risks or opportunities associated with its launch and subsequent execution against key assumptions.
• Lead development, analysis and oversight for the commercial cases for new activity. This includes developing commercial models to forecast the impact of the activity, working with key stakeholders and analytical teams to develop robust assumptions, developing stakeholder presentations and business cases outlining the planned impact of the activity.
• Hold performance reviews and benefit tracking of commercial activity, collaborating with wider analytical teams across the business as required, challenging where necessary to ensure there is a clear commercial narrative and understanding of performance. This includes supporting post‑investment review and benefit realisation of business cases.
• Own and manage the monitoring of prize funds, which includes financial control requirements as well as ensuring these are utilised to maximise returns to good causes, whilst ensuring their use meets our regulatory obligations and licence commitments.
• Provide finance support for jackpot estimation process for each draw ensuring marketing and channel content and representation of game jackpots are accurate and in line with our licence requirements.
• Manage cost control of IIWG game development costs, ensuring its use delivers optimal net margin and is line with forecast expectations.

Requirements

• Qualified accountant (ACCA, CIMA, ACA)
• Highly numerate with the ability to analyse, model and interpret data, including large data sets
• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to articulate complex financial and non‑financial information to non‑finance stakeholders, especially using MS PowerPoint
• Commercial awareness and ability to apply this to performance management, decision making and commercial recommendations
• Experience in a similar Commercial Finance role
• Advanced MS Excel skills (Lookups, Pivots, Data Visualisation), data manipulation and financial modelling
• Strategic mindset including ability to influence at all levels.
• Self‑starter with a keen attention to detail, independent thinking and ability to prioritise workload and key tasks
• Experience with SAP Analytics Cloud preferred
• Experience with Power BI tools preferred
• Strong communication skills – will have regular exposure to senior stakeholders and a range of stakeholders across different parts of the business
• Trusted business partner – will engage a wide variety of stakeholders across the business

Benefits

• 26 days paid leave (plus bank holidays)
• Annual bonus scheme
• 2 x Life Days
• 4 x Salary of Life Insurance
• Pension: we’ll match your contribution up to 8.5%
• Single Private Health Cover
• £500 Wellness Allowance
• Income Protection
• Enhanced parental leave (maternity and paternity)
• Eye Care, Dental and Cycle To Work schemes

Our values

• Innovation – constantly looking for new ways to excite customers, bringing new products while upholding responsible play values and accessibility.
• Giving back – playing the lottery generates around £30m a week for charities and good causes in the UK; our aim is to double this by the end of the first 10‑year licence.
• Sustainability – we aim to be net zero by 2030, making us the first lottery provider globally to achieve this.
• Inclusion and accessibility – making all parts of The National Lottery inclusive, whether you play a game in a store or online.

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 are made on 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.

We are a Disability Confident Leader which means we've taken proactive steps to ensure our workplace is accessible and inclusive for disabled colleagues and candidates. As part of this we offer an interview to disabled applicants who meet the essential requirements of the job.

If you need any assistance or adjustments to this job description or in the application process, please contact a member of the talent team at [e-mail] and we’ll be happy to help.

We are Allwyn UK, part of the Allwyn Entertainment Group – a multi‑national lottery operator with a market‑leading presence across Europe, including Czech Republic, Austria, Greece, Cyprus & Italy.