Director of Transactional Finance in Manchester

About the Role

Bally’s Intralot is looking for a Director of Transactional Finance to build a new stood‑alone team for its B2C business. This role will lead accounts payable, accounts receivable, vendor management and cash reconciliation for approximately 15,000 invoices and 3,000 reconciliations per year while driving automation, AI adoption and SOX‑grade control.

Responsibilities

• End‑to‑end accounts payable operations across all B2C entities: invoice intake, PO and non‑PO matching, coding, approvals, pay run preparation and execution in a multi‑currency environment.
• Month‑end deliverables including accruals, inter‑company processing and close support to the Accounting and Statutory Reporting teams.
• Spend analysis, DPO and cash management in coordination with Treasury and Procurement.
• Payment controls and fraud prevention: segregation of duties, bank mandates, payment release and callback procedures.
• Accounts receivable operations for the B2C model, including reconciliations, receipt application and ageing management.
• Bank reconciliations across all B2C bank accounts (~3,000 per year), with timely clearing of reconciling items.
• Balance sheet reconciliation support for the Accounting and Statutory Reporting teams across transactional accounts, including resolution of long‑dated items.
• Vendor master file governance: onboarding, KYC/AML and tax due diligence, duplicate prevention and periodic cleansing.
• Ongoing vendor maintenance, including bank detail change controls with callback verification.
• Vendor query and dispute management, acting as the primary interface to external suppliers on invoice and payment status.
• Own and deliver the digital transformation roadmap for the function, targeting straight‑through processing, touchless invoice handling and autonomous reconciliation.
• Lead selection, implementation and continuous improvement of AP automation, e‑invoicing, payment platforms and reconciliation tooling (e.g. Tipalti, Coupa, Esker, BlackLine, Trintech, Kyriba).
• Pilot and scale agentic AP capabilities—autonomous invoice coding, exception triage, vendor query handling and anomaly detection—in partnership with internal and external teams.
• Track and report automation rate, cost per invoice, exception rate, cycle time and FTE productivity; reinvest efficiency gains into higher‑value work.
• Design, operate and evidence SOX controls over AP, AR, cash and vendor master processes.
• Act as primary point of contact for Internal Audit, external auditors and advisory reviewers; own remediation of any findings.
• Ensure compliance with group policies, statutory requirements, gaming‑regulatory expectations and indirect/withholding tax obligations on payments.
• Hire, onboard, develop and retain the full team: AP & Payments Lead, AP & Payments Specialist, two AP/AR & Payments Specialists, Vendor & Payments Specialist and Banking Analyst.
• Define the operating model, service levels, RACI and escalation paths to replace the current shared‑service arrangement with zero disruption to close.
• Partner with Finance and Commercial teams to ensure smooth and consistent business operations and vendor relationship management.

Requirements

• Proven progressive finance experience, with a substantial portion leading transactional finance, AP or shared‑service operations in a publicly traded company (NYSE, ATHEX, LSE or equivalent).
• Proven track record delivering digital AP transformation—e‑invoicing, payment platforms and ideally AI or agentic automation—with quantified ROI.
• Hands‑on SOX experience: designing, operating and remediating process‑level controls in a listed‑company environment.
• Demonstrable experience building or carving out a finance team from scratch, including hiring, operating model design and location strategy.
• Strong people leader with a track record of attracting, developing and retaining high‑performing teams.
• Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA, CPA or equivalent).
• Sector experience in online gaming, fintech, payments, digital platforms or another high‑volume, multi‑currency, multi‑entity consumer business.
• Experience integrating finance functions post‑M&A, including shared‑service carve‑outs into stand‑alone entities (desirable).
• Hands‑on exposure to LLM‑based or agentic workflow tooling in a finance context (desirable).

Benefits

• 25 days annual leave, plus the bank holiday allowance.
• Health insurance.
• Company share scheme.
• Volunteering days.
• Home office allowance.
• Wellness or gym allowance.
• Flexi‑block policy allowing you to work abroad for up to four weeks a year.
• Annual summer and Christmas parties.

Equal Opportunities

At Bally’s Intralot, we are committed to promoting equal opportunities in employment and working conditions. Diversity, equity and inclusion are important to us, and we foster a culture where everyone can be themselves at work. We do not discriminate against employees or job applicants on the basis of race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, age, sex or sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity, political opinion or disability.