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- We are seeking a detail-oriented and proactive Financial Accountant to join our team. The ideal candidate will be responsible for managing and reconciling gaming-related financial data, performing month-end closing activities, and ensuring the accuracy of all financial records related to gaming operations.
- This will help us excel at delivering financial information timeously to senior management and shareholders of the organisation, to assist with their decision making processes to stay ahead of the game.
What you’ll be doing
As part of your role, your responsibilities will include:
Gaming Data & Balance Sheet Reconciliation
- Review that all gaming data is accurately posted by product, region, game/event, brand and platform.
- Reconcile gaming data with third-party sources, such as gaming server reports, ensuring consistency and accuracy.
- Match and reconcile all balance sheet accounts, ensuring proper alignment between records and financial statements.
- Investigate and resolve discrepancies and anomalies in the data promptly.
Month-End Closing and Reconciliation
- Prepare month-end files and reconciliations, ensuring all financial transactions are accurately reflected.
- Ensure the timely completion of month-end close processes.
- Ensure FloQast reconciliations and checklist assigned are timeously completed and accurate.
Gaming Tax & VAT Calculations
- Perform gaming tax and VAT calculations by region, ensuring compliance with regional tax regulations.
- Provide clear documentation and ensure timely submission of required tax filings.
Usage Fees, Rebates, and Invoicing
Accruals and Prepayments
- Ensure all accruals and prepayments are accounted for and complete.
- Ensure accurate tracking and reporting of prepayments and accruals across periods.
Intercompany and Intergroup Billing
Regional and Brand Split Posting
- Post and track regional and brand-specific splits for revenue and expenses, ensuring proper allocation of financial results.
- Ensure dimension splits are complete, accurate and relevant for each entity under remit.
Foreign Exchange Management
Financial Reporting
- Prepare month-end statutory, brand, and regional income statements and balance sheets, including relevant commentary on key financial movements and variances.
- Manage the trial balance and ensure that all financial data aligns with the general ledger.
Forecasting/Budgeting
Open Item Reporting
- Review weekly and monthly open item reports, tracking long-outstanding items and ensuring they are followed up promptly.
- Ensure all vendors are up to date and manage ageing with the Assistant Accountant.
Audit Preparation and Support
- Prepare quarterly, half-yearly, and annual financial audit files and support audit queries.
- Prepare schedules and documentation required for both operational and regulatory audits, ensuring that all required information is available for review.
Internal Controls and Process Documentation
- Assist in drafting process notes and internal control procedures to ensure the continuity and effectiveness of business operations.
- Ensure that accounting practices align with company policies and industry best practices.
Cross-Departmental Collaboration
- Work closely with the treasury manager, reconciliation specialists, statutory team, and other financial accountants to ensure smooth financial operations.
- Foster effective communication and collaboration between teams to meet key deliverables and resolve issues quickly.
Stakeholder Engagement
- Communicate effectively with managers, team members, and external stakeholders to ensure clear understanding of financial issues and status.
- Provide regular updates and manage expectations effectively, ensuring that any potential problems or delays are escalated as needed.
Essential skills you’ll bring to the table
The necessary skills that we require for this role include:
- Strong verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to convey complex ideas clearly and effectively
- Experience working collaboratively in cross-functional teams, with a focus on achieving shared goals
- Expertise in managing multiple projects simultaneously, with a track record of delivering on time and within scope
- Exceptional attention to detail, ensuring high standards of quality in all outputs
- Ability to adapt quickly to changing environments and priorities, maintaining effectiveness in dynamic situations
- Bachelor’s degree in accounting, Finance, or related field
- Strong knowledge of accounting principles and financial reporting
- Experience with SOX Compliance and/or Internal controls
- Advanced Excel experience
- 3 - 5 years Accounting Experience
Desirable skills you’ve got up your sleeve
It would be great if you also have some of the following skills:
- Experience in Microsoft Dynamics Navision or Business Central
- Experience in FloQast (Month end reconciliation tool)
- Experience in IBM Planning Analytics/TM1/Cognos
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Why we need you
- We’re on a mission to create extraordinary experiences for our customers, and we believe that your unique skills, passion and superdrive will help us achieve our vision.
- As a Tax Administrator you’ll be supporting the delivery of ensuring that the company meets its tax compliance obligations across multiple jurisdictions. This includes assisting with the preparation of tax calculations and tax returns, assisting with tax audits, and ensuring compliance with changing tax laws and regulations.
What you’ll be doing
As part of your role, your responsibilities will include:
Tax Compliance and Calculations
- Assist in quarterly calculation of direct taxes.
- Work closely with the Tax Compliance Specialists to ensure that all applicable taxes, including corporate income taxes, indirect taxes and gaming taxes are accurately calculated and reported timeously.
- Assist the Tax Compliance Specialists with the calculation of indirect taxes related to the gaming and operational activities of the company. This includes taxes such as gaming tax, VAT (Value Added Tax), withholding tax (WHT), local VAT, reverse VAT, excise tax, and levies.
- Assist the Tax Compliance Specialists to ensure that all indirect tax calculations are accurate and compliant with local laws and regulations.
Filing of Operational Tax Returns
- Submit and file periodic indirect, gaming and operational tax returns for all relevant entities.
- Ensure compliance with local tax regulations for each jurisdiction and ensure submissions are done on a weekly and/or monthly basis.
- Maintain tax profiles for all relevant entities on revenue authority portals.
Compliance Tax Calendar
- Assist with managing and updating the tax compliance calendar for all periodic tax filings.
- Assist with ensuring that all deadlines for tax returns and payments are met in a timely manner.
Tax Legislation Anomalies
- Monitor changes in tax legislation and investigate any anomalies that may arise.
- Stay up to date with relevant tax laws, regulations, and potential changes in the tax landscape that could affect the business.
Tax Audits
- Assist Tax Compliance Specialists / Manager by providing ongoing support to internal and external tax audits.
- Assist the Tax Compliance Specialists / Manager with the gathering, preparation and submission of necessary information relating to internal and external tax audits.
Group Tax Matrixes
- Assist in the updating of the group’s tax matrixes.
- Ensure that the information in the tax matrix reflects accurately on the company’s tax position.
- Communicate any updates where necessary to Tax Compliance Specialist / Manager.
Audit & Corporate Governance
- Assist with the preparation of the quarterly and annual audit files and providing audit evidence.
- Ensure that all controls are adhered to and documented for SOX compliance.
Financial Staffing
- Effectively work as a team with relevant team members.
- Communicate clearly and effectively at all levels, both internally and externally, to ensure expectations are met and potential problems are escalated timely.
Ad-Hoc Tax Duties
- Provide assistance and support for various tax-related projects and administrative matters as needed. This may include research, gathering information, or providing insights on different tax issues that arise.
- Update and maintain tax trackers, tax project registers and tax compliance registers.
- Collating / uploading accounting information to tax consultants supporting preparation of tax computations.
- Draft process notes detailing how and why monthly tasks are performed to ensure business continuity.
- Archive all financial information.
- Assist with raising tickets to resolve and improve issues / errors within the tax system and to update workflows following changes within the business.
- General administration related to the entities responsible for.
- Assist with other ad hoc tasks as requested by the team from time to time.
- This job description is not intended to be an exhaustive list of responsibilities. You may be required to complete other reasonable duties in order to achieve business objectives.
Essential skills you’ll bring to the table
- The necessary skills that we require for this role include:
- Certificate or diploma in Accounting, Finance, Tax or related field
- 1-3 years accounting and tax experience in a similar role
- Experience in tax accounting / calculations, tax compliance and tax administrative management
- Strong verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to convey complex ideas clearly and effectively
- Experience working collaboratively in cross-functional teams, with a focus on achieving shared goals
- Expertise in managing multiple projects simultaneously, with a track record of delivering on time and within scope
- Exceptional attention to detail, ensuring high standards of quality in all outputs
- Ability to adapt quickly to changing environments and priorities, maintaining effectiveness in dynamic situations
- Intermediate to advanced Microsoft Excel skills and MS Word
Desirable skills you’ve got up your sleeve
It would be great if you also have some of the following skills:
- SOX and / or AFS experience
- Experience in working with tax software - Thompson Reuters Orbitax and OneSource Provisioning Tool or Aibidia
- Experience in Microsoft Dynamics Navision or Business Central
- Experience in FloQast
- Experience in IBM Planning Analytics / TM1 / Cognos