Accountant, Technical Reporting in Manchester

Light & Wonder’s corporate team is comprised of incredible talent that works across the enterprise, defying boundaries to provide essential services in an extraordinary manner to ensure the success of the organization and the well-being of employees.

As an Accountant, Technical Reporting, you’ll join a high-performing team of subject-matter experts, taking ownership of legal entity reporting across multiple global jurisdictions. This role is ideal for someone looking to make a first move from practice (e.g. Big 4 or similar) into industry, offering broad exposure and real ownership from day one.

You’ll work closely with teams across the Group to manage audits and statutory reporting, ensuring timely delivery of financial statements while acting as the key contact for external auditors. Alongside this, you’ll provide technical accounting guidance across the business, translating complex issues into clear, practical insights. As a proactive and collaborative team, we continuously drive improvement, giving you the opportunity to contribute to and lead finance transformation initiatives.

We're looking for people who are full of ideas, want to challenge the norm and work to our core values:

• Dare to be Bold - We always bring courage to work to reach for the unbelievable.
• Uphold Integrity - We promote accountability and respect to raise the bar for ourselves and the industry.
• Never Settle - We relentlessly push forward to create the extraordinary in every detail.
• Celebrate Perspectives - We combine diverse talent to look at the familiar in unfamiliar ways.
• Win as a Team – We bring out the best in each other to share collective success.

Key Responsibilities:

• Ownership and timely delivery of the Group’s statutory accounts and audit projects around the world.
• Identify key project issues early and take pre-emptive action to address.
• Technical review of individual legal entity management accounts throughout the year to drive timely corrective action ahead of year end.
• Develop a strong and collaborative relationship with the auditor, understanding both their needs and the Group’s, to effectively manage audit projects from start to finish.
• Production of technical accounting papers and quality audit schedules for both the auditor and internal use, including technical accounting review of revenue recognition for new sales contracts.
• Engage and influence supporting internal corporate functions (including GL close, tax, internal audit and treasury) for audit project support and respond to their technical accounting requirements.
• Monitoring of legal entity compliance in support of the Group’s CoSec function.
• Plan and lead key project meetings to use time efficiently.
• Deliver improvement projects within the service centre. Projects are ad-hoc in nature and will cover a range of areas within the wider finance department.
• Adherence to policies and procedures, including SOX framework.
• Other duties will be required from time to time.

Qualifications:

• Accountancy qualification (ACA, ACCA, ICAEW etc.)
• Proven experience in a Big 4 or comparable top-tier accounting firm environment.

Required Skills:

• Ownership and timely delivery of the Group’s statutory accounts and audit projects around the world.
• Identify key project issues early and take pre-emptive action to address.
• Technical review of individual legal entity management accounts throughout the year to drive timely corrective action ahead of year end.
• Develop a strong and collaborative relationship with the auditor, understanding both their needs and the Group’s, to effectively manage audit projects from start to finish.
• Production of technical accounting papers and quality audit schedules for both the auditor and internal use, including technical accounting review of revenue recognition for new sales contracts.
• Engage and influence supporting internal corporate functions (including GL close, tax, internal audit and treasury) for audit project support and respond to their technical accounting requirements.
• Monitoring of legal entity compliance in support of the Group’s CoSec function.
• Plan and lead key project meetings to use time efficiently.
• Deliver improvement projects within the service centre. Projects are ad-hoc in nature and will cover a range of areas within the wider finance department.
• Adherence to policies and procedures, including SOX framework.
• Other duties will be required from time to time.

Please note that this role is based in our Manchester studio and you will be expected to attend the office at least 3 days a week. Please note, we are unable to sponsor visas at this time. If you require visa sponsorship now or in the future we will not be able to progress with your application.

This job description should not be interpreted as all-inclusive; it is intended to identify major responsibilities and requirements of the job. The employee in this position may be requested to perform other job-related tasks and responsibilities than those stated above.

What we can offer you?

• Discretionary Annual performance bonus
• 25 days' holiday plus bank holidays
• Hybrid working (3 days in the office)
• 1 day paid leave to work on charitable projects
• 1 day paid for personal celebration e.g. birthdays
• Half Day for Health (encouraging you to take time away for you & your wellbeing)
• Up to 8% employer pension contributions
• A reward platform offering a cycle to work scheme and shopping and lifestyle discounts/cashback
• Wellbeing benefits including Private Medical Insurance, Dental Insurance and Aviva DigiCare
• Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)
• Optional benefits such as Tastecard, Give As You Earn and Travel Ticket Loan.

Light & Wonder are an Equal Opportunity Employer and encourage applications from all walks of life regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships. If you are invited to an interview, please let us know if there are any reasonable adjustments, we can make to the recruitment process that will enable you to perform to the best of your ability.