Senior Accountant, Technical Reporting

5 months ago

Manchester, United Kingdom Global Draw Limited Full time

Corporate:
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.

Position Summary

Background


Light & Wonder, Inc. (the Group) is the leading cross-platform global games company. Through our three unique, yet highly complementary businesses, we deliver unforgettable experiences by combining the exceptional talents of our 6,000+ member team, across six-continents, with a deep understanding of our customers and players.
Guided by a culture that values teamwork and creativity, the Group builds new worlds of play, developing game experiences loved around the world.
The Group is committed to the highest standards of integrity, from promoting player responsibility, to implementing sustainable practices.

The role
 

Join an exciting team of subject-matter experts taking complete ownership of legal entity reporting for jurisdictions around the world. Working closely with other teams throughout the Group, project manage audit and accounts projects to deliver financial statements to timetable. As a team, we collaborate closely with our management accountant colleagues throughout the year to monitor entity performance and deal with challenges as they arise. You will be the key contact for dealing with company auditors and will need to forge a strong, collaborative relationship with this critical advisor.


We provide other functions with technical accounting support requiring us to deliver technical subject matter to non-technical audiences, including technical accounting support for M&A transactions.


We are a positive, pro-active team and continually seek to deliver improvement throughout finance. We will own or support with improvement projects throughout the year.


The Group’s career architecture sets a clear path for your career advancement providing opportunities to aid personnel and professional progression.

Key responsibilities


• Full 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.
• Be the main driver for improvement projects across the Group.
• 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 (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.

Key qualities
• Qualified finance professional (ACA, ACCA etc.).
• Excellent technical accounting knowledge in a common GAAP (IFRS, UK GAAP etc.).
• Initiative-taker and problem solver. The ability to personally drive resolution to challenges including those outside of your comfort zone.
• Precise communication skills, including discussing technical topics with non-technical audiences.
• Excellent organizational and time-management skills.
• Strong attention to detail.
• Experience of large complex organisation desirable.
• Experience of dealing with large accounting packages desirable.
• Audit background is desirable but not required.

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