Finance Director

2 Months ago • 12 Years + • Finance

Job Summary

Job Description

The Global Finance Director will be a visionary leader, responsible for driving all financial strategies and performance globally. This role oversees financial operations, ensuring compliance across all jurisdictions. Key responsibilities include financial reporting, systems and process optimization, regulatory compliance, analysis of results, accounts receivable and payable management, payroll oversight, banking relationships, and financial planning. The role involves understanding financial results to make operational recommendations. This position requires managing financial planning and analysis, and requires understanding the activities that contribute to profitability at each level and the drivers that enable the optimization of such activity.
Must have:
  • Must be a Chartered Accountant
  • 12+ years of experience in finance, with at least 5 years in a global financial controller role or similar position
  • Knowledge of US GAAP
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
  • Proficiency in financial software and ERP systems
  • In-depth knowledge of financial regulations and compliance standards
Perks:
  • Competitive salary and benefits package
  • A rare opportunity to help build and shape a brand-new team
  • A professional, fun, and supportive work environment

Job Details

Company Summary:

You name it, we’ve done it. 

GlobalStep is a recognized brand in the gaming space and partners with the world’s leading game studios and innovative brands, bringing compelling and high impact digital experiences to life, fast and flawless. Our specialized gaming practice has helped leading video game studios launch and support over 3,000 Video Game titles, generating over $40 billion in game revenue.

Serving leading and disruptive brands since 2006, we use proprietary tools, frameworks, and our deep client experience to provide end-to-end comprehensive suite of services across the product and customer lifecycle. These services include design, development, quality assurance, localization, player engagement and analytics.

With a global set of service locations across 3 continents and 6 countries, we have a tightly integrated services model across geographies and lines of service aimed and focused on the success of our clients.

About the Role

The Global Finance Director will be a visionary leader and a game changer, passionate about all aspects of finance, driving all financial strategies and performance on a global scale

This role will oversee the financial operations of the organization, ensuring regulatory and reporting compliance in all GlobalStep geographic jurisdictions. This role requires a strategic thinker with extensive experience in financial management and global financial control. The ideal candidate will lead financial planning, analysis, and reporting, while managing a team of finance professionals.

This person will be responsible for understanding the financial results and be able to make operational recommendations aligned with the improvement of such financial results.

Key Responsibilities:

  1. Financial Reporting:
    • Legal Entity Reporting and Consolidation
    • Managerial reporting:
      • P&L by Location – broken out by line of service
      • P&L by Line of Service broken out by location
    • Ensuring that the chart of accounts is responsive to the Company’s reporting needs
  2. Systems and Process:
    • Ensure optimal configuration and utilization of the Accounting System
    • Ensure that all processes are defined, documented and constantly improved upon with the discipline of continuous improvement.
  3. Regulatory Compliance:
    • Work with auditors, accountants and other professionals to ensure regulatory and financial compliance in each jurisdiction.
  4. Analysis of Results:
    • Understanding the financial results and be able to make operational recommendations aligned with the improvement of such financial results
    • Responsible for supervising the preparation of professional communication of results to the senior management team.
  5. Accounts Receivable:
    • Statements of Work
    • Invoicing
    • Collections
  6. Accounts Payable:
    • Oversight of Accounts Payable Processes and maintain efficient AP workflows and systems
    • Prepare, present reports on AP metrics to senior management and analyze AP data to identify trends and areas for improvement
  7. Payroll:
    • Ensure accurate and timely processing of payroll for all employees while overseeing payroll systems and software to maintain efficiency
    • Ensure compliance with federal, state, and local payroll laws and regulations and stay updated on changes in tax laws and labor regulations affecting payroll
    • Provide global oversight on appropriate spending practices on salaries and related expenses
  8. Banking:
    • Establish and maintain relationships with banks and financial institutions and negotiate terms and conditions for banking services
    • Oversee cash flow management to ensure liquidity & operational efficiency and monitor daily cash balances and forecast cash needs to optimize working capital
  9. Financial Planning:
    • Develop an understanding of the activities that contribute to profitability at each level and the drivers that enable the optimization of such activity, with clear line of sight to corporate profitability
    • Provide oversight in preparation of Monthly Financial Forecast for each Line of service at each geographic location 
  10. Assist the CFO in the management of relationships with:
    • Banks
    • Law Firms
    • Audit and Accounting firms
    • Other advisory Professionals
    • The scope is global and encompasses legal entities in the United States, Canada, UK, Romania, Portugal & India at the current time.

Requirements

Must have:

  • Must be a Chartered Accountant
  • 12+ years of experience in finance, with at least 5 years in a global financial controller role or similar position.
  • Knowledge of US GAAP
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
  • Proficiency in financial software and ERP systems.
  • In-depth knowledge of financial regulations and compliance standards

What we offer

  • Competitive salary and benefits package.
  • A rare opportunity to help build and shape a brand-new team
  • A professional, fun, and supportive work environment

GlobalStep is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status.

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