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.

While the main contribution of the National Lottery to society is through the funds to good causes, at Allwyn we put our purpose and values at the heart of everything we do. Join us as we embark on a once-in-a-lifetime, largescale transformation journey to build a bigger, better, and safer National Lottery that delivers more money to good causes.

Role Purpose:
• To provide support across the Commercial Finance Team

• Support Senior Finance Manager with adhoc projects

• To be an effective and trusted business partner primarily to the Technology department. Providing value-adding decision support and insight

• To provide financial leadership on strategically important business initiatives and clear insight into the progress made towards achieving business and financial targets

• Deliver the annual budget and re-forecasts for Technology

• Monitoring financial impact of risks and opportunities on a continuous basis

• Robustly analyse expenditure on a monthly basis and provide clear management summaries for senior stakeholders within the Technology area and other areas as required

• To provide financial support and guidance to your business partners on a wide range of ad hoc queries

• To work closely with Financial Accounts to ensure month end processes are understood and postings are accurate

• To support and drive the business change agenda, continually seeking to improve processes

• To work closely with HR to significantly improve our visibility of the overall resource levels of the business and provide clear reporting to senior management

• Ad-hoc analysis as required and support of business partnering across all cost areas

Role

Responsibilities:

• Be an effective and trusted business partner primarily for the Technology business area. Providing financial analysis, advice and proactive support

• Support Senior Finance Manager with adhoc projects

• Drive improvements in reporting, processes and use of systems

• Responsible for the management reporting of these areas which primarily includes:

o Monthly analysis of overheads, challenging the status quo and identifying opportunities to improve financial performance

o Reviewing team structures and vacancies, approving new heads that the teams wish to recruit and ensuring managers remain within approved budgets

o Ensuring costs are accurately reported at month end

• Prepare the annual budget and re-forecasts for these areas, working closely with team managers to understand team structures, resource requirements and other overhead plans

• Provide financial leadership on key business projects, ensuring that the business remains within financial governance and preparing business cases for senior management that robustly analyse the financial and non-financial KPIs

• Provide quality ad-hoc and regular analysis to influence management decisions

• Work closely with HR on overall headcount reporting, ensuring that we present an accurate picture to senior management

• Proactively come up with new ideas to challenge current processes and assumptions

• Build strong relationships across the finance team and wider business

• Be a key driver and implementer of the business change agenda - simplification and agile working - sharing best practice across the organisation

Key Skills and Experience:
• Advanced Excel / system skills, BPC (sap business planning and consolidation) is preferable but not essential

• Proactive self-starter, able to work in a high-paced environment

• Customer Focus - Maximises personal contribution to the business to deliver on time and right first time

• Personal Integrity - Matches words with actions to build trust and respect

• Drive - Strives to achieve results through determination and commitment. Keeps going when things are difficult

• Team Working - Builds and maintains positive relationships across teams.

• Developing Self/ others - Creates or contributes to an environment in which self and others are motivated to learn and develop

• Analysing and Decision Making - Analyses problems thoroughly and makes good timely decisions. Supports others’ decision making through insightful analysis

• Managing Performance - Proactively takes responsibility for personal development Supports and challenges peers to achieve their full potential. Sets stretching objectives and measures progress against them. Manages resources effectively

• Managing Change - Champions, supports and delivers change to improve things. Helps others by overcoming barriers. Is a role model for the leadership agenda within the finance department

• Gaining Commitment - Energises and influences others to get the job done and uses relationships to deliver great results

• Excellent stakeholder management skills

• Strong communication skills, verbal and written. The ability to present complex issues in a simple way

• Proven business partnering skills

• Commercial focus

• Passionate business partner who is result-orientated, analytical and has the ability to drive improvements

• A change agent who will contribute positively towards cultural change and ways of working and simplification

• Experience in SAP and budgeting and reporting tools.

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.
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.

Benefits

• 34 days paid leave (This includes bank holidays)
• 2 x Life Days
• 4 x Salary of Life Insurance
• Pension: We’ll contribute 8.5%
• BUPA
• £500 wellness allowance
• Income Protection