FP&A Manager, Keywords Studios
Support Functions
Office located in Holborn, London
Technical & creative services provider
Job no longer available
Technical & creative services provider
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
Office located in Holborn, London
1001+ employees
Company mission
To use the passion for games, technology, and media to create a global services platform for video games.
Role
Who you are
- Qualified Accountant: ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent qualification is required. with experience working in group finance teams, preferably within multinational organisations
- Process Expertise: Track record of managing financial reporting, planning, and forecasting processes with high attention to detail and accuracy
- Revenue Complexity: Experience in organizations with high levels of contract-driven revenue requiring careful attention to revenue forecasting and contract margins
- Communication: Ability to communicate effectively with Finance Leaders and Executives, providing actionable insights and challenging assumptions
- Data Literacy: High degree of data literacy and familiarity with BI tools (e.g., Power BI) for analysing complex data sets to identify trends and opportunities
- Agility: Ability to manage multiple priorities and meet tight deadlines in a complex multinational environment. Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills
- Remote Team Management: Direct the financial activities of multidisciplinary and remote teams (Accounting, AP, AR), ensuring consistent performance and the meeting of all Group reporting deadlines. Ability to manage multiple priorities and meet tight deadlines in a fast-paced environment
What the job involves
- Working closely with the Head of Group FP&A and the Group Finance team, the FP&A Manager – Support Functions plays a pivotal role in maintaining the financial integrity of the cost centres for support functions, bridging the gap between consolidated group reporting and operational reality
- This role is responsible for ensuring accuracy in financial numbers through insightful variance analysis and data-driven oversight to ensure costs are well controlled and within Budget
- This position involves working directly and frequently with senior management, including regular interaction with the CFO and COO, to provide financial transparency and strategic support
- As a key member of the Group FP&A team, the role is responsible for the annual budget for support functions using strategic frameworks to align functional spend with long-term goals
- The role also serves as a strategic partner to HQ leadership and IT Investment Committees, ensuring business resilience, covenant compliance, and the successful execution of digital transformation initiatives
- Financial Reporting & Analysis: Prepare monthly reporting for multiple cost centres and review consolidated group figures, ensuring strict alignment with budget/forecast expectations
- Driving a modernisation roadmap to automate data flows and remap the Chart of Accounts (CoA) to eliminate manual reconciliations and enhance reporting granularity
- Variance Management: Proactively liaise with global teams to identify, analyse, and document reasons for budget and forecast variances, implementing course-corrective actions to ensure regional performance remains in line with budgetary expectations
- Board Reporting: Lead the design and preparation of comprehensive board slides and presentation decks covering both payroll and non-payroll expenditure. Responsible for translating complex financial datasets into clear, executive-level insights and high-quality commentary to support strategic decision-making at the Group level
- Transformation Reporting: Responsible for the end-to-end financial oversight of transformation workstreams
- Facilitate monthly performance meetings with the COO and project owners, to provide detailed analysis on initiative progress, cost-to-achieve, and the delivery of targeted efficiencies against business cases
- Budgeting & Planning: Actively assist in the preparation and consolidation of annual operating budgets; work with cost centre owners to ensure inputs are accurate and aligned with strategic goals
- Forecasting Support: Assist in the monthly refinement of financial forecasts to reflect real-time business changes
- Provide appropriate financial support to the CFO and wider teams as required, including provision of financial insights to support growth initiatives and capital allocation
- Headcount Reporting & Analysis: Review global headcount reporting for ~12k employees, providing detailed analysis on movements, including new hires, attrition, and transfers
- Leading the transition from manual Excel-based tracking to Workday, currently Finance are undergoing a data alignment project to synchronise Finance records with HR system outputs to ensure staff cost budget integrity
- Intercompany Management: Oversee the monthly recharge process for centrally purchased items, ensuring accurate distribution across global subsidiary entities. Project work required to overhaul the recharging process with appropriate documentation
- Remote Team Management: Direct the financial activities of multidisciplinary and remote teams (Accounting, AP, AR), ensuring consistent performance and the meeting of all Group reporting deadlines
- Balance Sheet Integrity: Conduct rigorous reviews of balance sheet accounts, specifically prepayments and fixed assets, to ensure correct IFRS treatment
- Business Transformation: Partner with IT and Transformation teams on strategic projects to improve financial systems and processes. Including establishing a PO system / invoice matching process
- Ad-hoc Projects: Lead and support various ad-hoc financial projects and strategic initiatives as required by the CFO and senior leadership, ranging from M&A support to cost-optimisation reviews
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Keywords Studios is an international technical service provider to the global video games industry and beyond. The company works as an external development partner for its users, enabling leading content creators and publishers to leverage Keywords' expertise and capacity across the lifecycle of interactive content. In so doing the company enables its clients who are operating in complex and fast-moving environments to remain lean and agile, and to focus on creating and monetising the most engaging experiences.
The company has over 70 studios in 26 countries across the globe. Providing integrated art production, engineering, audio services, testing, localisation, and player support services in more than 50 languages and 16 game platforms.
With a strong market position, Keywords provides services to nearly all of the prominent gaming companies, including T2, EA, Ubisoft, and Square Enix. Keywords had also been on an acquisition spree, with its total acquisition count sitting at 60 before it was acquired by private equity firm EQT in 2024.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
7% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- Medical, dental and vision benefits
- WFH Opportunities
- Flexible working hours
- Bonus Schemes
- And More (Varies by Location)
- 25 days holiday (+ bank holidays)
- Pension Scheme
- Tech & Bike Schemes
Company HQ
Carmanhall And Leopardstown, Dublin, Ireland
Leadership
Bertrand Bodson
(CEO)Current Non-Executive Director at Tesco and Wolters Kluwer. Co-Founder & former CEO of Bragster.com (Acquired by Guinness World Records). Previous Chief Digital & CMO at Sainsbury's, and Non-Executive Director of Electrocomponents.
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