Senior Financial Modeller

At the heart of everything we do is our vision to change lives every day, and our mission to grow The National Lottery responsibly and champion its impact.

We are Allwyn UK, part of the Allwyn Entertainment Group – a multi-national lottery operator with a market-leading presence across the USA (Michigan and Illinois) and Europe, including Czech Republic, Austria, Greece, Cyprus and Italy.

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, large scale transformation journey by creating a National Lottery that delivers more money to good causes.

We’ll talk a bit more about us further down the page, but for now – let’s talk about the role and who we’re looking for…

This is a high-impact role within FP&A and partnering Commercial Finance and Senior Stakeholders to lead the development, maintenance and continuous improvement of critical financial models, reporting and strategic analysis. The role is central to shaping decision-making in a fast-moving environment, providing insight across business planning, scenario analysis, regulatory submissions and executive stakeholder engagement, including support on all matters relating to Gambling Commission engagement.

• Lead the strategic development of core Excel-based financial models using best-practice modelling techniques, ensuring they remain decision-useful as the business evolves, including sales forecasting models and integrated three-statement long-range plan models.
• Own the long-range plan model, ensuring it is updated for actuals and latest forecast and continues to evolve alongside SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) and/or future planning systems.
• Work closely with the wider finance and commercial teams to ensure financial inputs can be captured accurately, including the creation of input templates where necessary. Design outputs that utilise data visualisation, trending and other tools to ‘tell the story’ of financial results
• Development and production of excel based reports, ensuring the production of the reports are efficient and include checks for accuracy.
• Provide high-quality ad-hoc financial analysis and insight to support strategic decision-making across Finance, Commercial and senior leadership.
• Build and adapt financial models as business needs evolve, including for business case appraisal, agile scenario planning, stress testing and financial resilience analysis.
• Ensure models and outputs are aligned to business planning methodologies and regulatory requirements, identify gaps between business needs and regulatory expectations, and develop pragmatic solutions, including support across all matters relating to Gambling Commission engagement.
• Work with stakeholders, including the Allwyn Executive Team, non-finance business partners and the wider Finance team, to deliver high-quality outputs to deadline and operate effectively in environments where requirements may be ambiguous or evolving.
• Partner with senior finance leadership on internal and external stakeholder engagement, including the preparation of high-quality reporting packs, analysis and messaging for senior management, executives and regulatory stakeholders.
• Production of manuals and training materials to enable the Allwyn finance team to take ownership of the models & reporting in the future

• Strong experience building and maintaining integrated financial models in Excel and PowerPoint, covering profit and loss, balance sheet, cash flow, KPIs, actuals versus budget and trend analysis.
• Strong experience supporting business planning cycles and building models and reporting packs that influence decision-making and meet the needs of senior stakeholders.
• Experience with SAC desirable, including system mapping and some configuration (if necessary). Sophisticated system knowledge to ensure reporting leverages system functionality to drive efficiency
• Strong understanding of the inter-relationships between the three financial statements and how business performance,…