Global Gaming Content and Technology Organisation seeks an Interim Financial Controller to join their business on an initial 6-month assignment. The Financial Controller would provide immediate senior-level oversight and control across the finance environment. The successful candidate would be an experienced finance professional with a background in Gaming or Tech environment.
The role will initially be diagnostic and hands-on. The Financial Controller will get underneath the numbers and processes, understand where issues are occurring and put appropriate financial discipline around the operation.
Responsibilities of the Financial Controller include:
- Take senior oversight of financial accounting and month-end activities across the business.
- Quickly assess the current finance environment and identify gaps in process, ownership, controls and data quality.
- Perform detailed balance sheet reviews and understand the underlying composition and movement of material balances.
- Review reconciliations and challenge aged, unsupported, unusual or unexplained items.
- Review GL activity and trace accounting issues back through journals, source data and supporting documentation.
- Investigate recurring accounting and reporting issues and identify root causes rather than simply correcting the output.
- Provide senior review over accruals, provisions, revenue, cost recognition, intercompany and other judgmental accounting areas.
- Establish clear issue logs, ownership and remediation actions.
- Bring structure and discipline to month-end close, including clear review points and escalation.
- Work closely with operational accountants and analysts while providing senior review and direction.
- Translate complex accounting issues into concise conclusions and recommendations for finance leadership.
- Support the transition towards the longer-term finance operating model.
Requirements for the Financial Controller include:
- ACA / ACCA / CIMA qualified, ideally with strong financial accounting foundations.
- Exposure to a gaming or tech environment
- Experienced Financial Controller, Senior Finance Manager or equivalent.
- Strong multinational / multi-entity accounting background.
- Excellent balance sheet and reconciliation skills.
- Strong IFRS knowledge.
- Naturally investigative, able to follow an issue through journals, reconciliations and underlying data.
- Comfortable being hands-on rather than sitting above the detail.
- Strong Excel/data analysis capability.
- D365 experience highly desirable.
- Experience with finance transformation, remediation or post-ERP implementation environments would be particularly useful.
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