Manager, Accounting Operations I ABK

2 weeks ago

Dublin, Dublin City, Ireland Blizzard Entertainment Full time

Manager, Accounting Operations I ABK

Apply locations London - King - Ampersand Dublin - Activision - East Point Business Park time type Full time posted on Posted 13 Days Ago job requisition id R024521

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Job Description:

Come join an organization that empowers our stakeholders to achieve more through trusted services that ensure accuracy, timeliness, privacy, and accessibility

We are seeking a highly driven, innovative, and passionate Finance Manager to join the Accounting Operations team inside Finance Operations. Accounting Operations provides large-scale, global accounting support for financial close, reporting, statutory compliance, and audit for over 300 ABK/Microsoft legal entities and lines of business. We are a global team with staff and delivery centers around the world. Accounting Operations is continuously expanding its scope, evolving operating models with intelligent automation, innovative processes, and offering cost efficient solutions for ABK. We strive to provide end-to-end experiences for our customers with built-in compliance and intelligent insights.

As the Manager, you will oversee timely and accurate accounting close processes and governance through our business process outsourcing model, ensuring business continuity and accounting compliance. You'll provide thought leadership, guiding successful execution of accounting, statutory, and financial reporting processes, engaging with stakeholders across ABK. The ideal candidate brings curiosity, innovative thinking, and a strong background in accounting close, business partnering, process management, and collaboration.

ABK's mission is to empower every person and every organization to achieve more. With a growth mindset, we innovate, collaborate and uphold values of respect, integrity, and accountability fostering a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive.

In alignment with our ABK values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day.

Our hybrid working model empowers teams across ABK to decide how they want to work together, with a mix of in-office and home working. This allows us to connect, collaborate, celebrate and work effectively in our teams.

Core Job Responsibilities

Governance and Compliance

  1. Conduct governance of vendor teams performing Accounting Operations activities, including preparation and review of financial close journal entries, balance sheet account reconciliations, analytical reviews and other financial reporting in compliance with ABK accounting policies and guidelines.
  2. Monitor Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and Service Level Agreement (SLA) metrics for accuracy and compliance.
  3. Research, review, and document accounting standards, guidelines, and policies. Field complex questions from business partners in alignment with accounting policies.
  4. Conduct P&L and BS analysis and respond to inquiries from business and finance partners regarding actuals.

Issue Resolution and Support

  1. Investigate and resolve business partner inquiries, accounting deviations, and other anomalies.
  2. Serve as an escalation point of contact to resolve complex issues when governing vendors in a shared services environment. Facilitate issue resolution with leadership, business partners, team members, and vendor leadership.
  3. Provide escalated support and troubleshooting to users. Investigate and resolve business partner inquiries, accounting deviations, and other data anomalies.

Compliance and Reporting

  1. Ensure statutory financial statements and relevant tax filings are completed, filed timely, and in compliance with local laws and regulations across a range of legal entities and countries.
  2. Support Global ABK's local statutory reporting and compliance process.
  3. Provide detailed financial analysis to support local tax filings and tax planning initiatives in collaboration with local tax team and external advisors.
  4. Preparation and review of tax provisions, including current and deferred tax calculations.
  5. Act as one of the primary points of contact for external auditors, managing the audit process from planning to completion.

Process Improvement and Optimization

  1. Implement and execute standard, global processes for key business activities.
  2. Manage continuous process improvement and identify process optimization and/or automation opportunities by evaluating and leveraging technology to enhance internal processes.

Skills & Experience

  1. Qualified accountant with 3+ years post qualification work experience in accounting or finance
  2. Accounting close/financial reporting experience
  3. Knowledge of IFRS accounting standards, tax regulations
  4. Influence without authority and drive accountability
  5. Strong collaboration and business partnership
  6. Strong verbal and written communication
  7. Extensive experience and proven ability to work with international teams
  8. Problem solving skills and root cause analysis with resolution
  9. Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and organizational skills.
  10. Experience in Oracle, Answers OBIEE and/or Smartview is a plus
  11. Working proficiency in Spanish is a plus

About King

At King, we're Making the World Playful. Heard of Candy Crush? We're the creators behind it. With game studios in Stockholm, Malmö, London, Barcelona and Berlin, and offices in Dublin, San Francisco, New York, and Malta, we have a 20-year history of delivering some of the world's most iconic games in the mobile gaming industry and are on a mission to level-up the little moments for our more than 200 million active monthly users. But we aren't just crushing it with candies, we're also behind Farm Heroes, Bubble Witch, Pet Rescue and loads of other sweet games. As a leading interactive entertainment company for the mobile world, King is part of Activision Blizzard, which was acquired by Microsoft.

A Great Saga Needs All Sorts of Heroes

King strives to be a place where everyone can be their most authentic self. We recognize that diversity, equity and inclusion is a vital and continuous conversation, and that change only happens when we all come together. It's our mission to build a diverse and inclusive Kingdom for our people, players, and community.

Making the World Playful

Making the World Playful is our mission – it's the thread that connects our people, our players, and our passion for our games. Let's face it, who doesn't love a bit of fun?

Kingsters are seriously playful: creative thinkers who balance art and science to bring moments of magic to millions daily. But our players aren't the only ones that can level-up. We're always looking for ways to champion each other and make what's already great, even better.

So, if this feels like a fun way to spend your days, and you share our passion, our values, and our hunger to shape the future, join us in Making the World Playful.

Applications need to be in English.
Discover King at careers.king.com

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