Finance director - igaming - onsite, bulgaria, europe

Location: Onsite, Sofia, Bulgaria

About the Hiring Company:

We are a B2B sportsbook product company operating across multiple countries and legal entities. Our finance function has to hold together a group that spans several jurisdictions, currencies, tax regimes and reporting calendars - while the commercial side of the business keeps moving.

We are looking for a Finance Director to own the day-to-day running of that function end to end, and to lead the team that delivers it. You will be close to the ledger, close to the numbers, and close to the CFO.

This is a working leadership role. You will manage and develop the finance team, but you will also be in the detail yourself - reviewing the consolidation, sitting with the auditors, and picking up the work directly when a close is tight. If you are looking to manage purely through others, this is not the right role. If you want full ownership of a multi-entity finance operation in a fast-moving B2B business, it is.

Job Requirements:

• The finance team. Leading, structuring and developing the finance team across our locations - setting priorities and workload across the close calendar, reviewing and quality-controlling their output, running performance conversations and one-to-ones, identifying capability gaps, and hiring into them as the group grows. You will also own the working relationship with our external accounting and payroll providers in each jurisdiction.
• Group accounting. Month-end and year-end close across all entities, consolidation, intercompany reconciliation, eliminations, and the integrity of the group ledger.
• Statutory reporting and audit. Local statutory accounts in each jurisdiction, coordination with external auditors and local accounting providers, and clean, defensible audit files.
• Regulatory liaison. Acting as the company’s point of contact with regulatory authorities in applicable jurisdictions and managing the ongoing relationship and communication with them.
• Tax and compliance. Corporate tax, VAT, transfer pricing documentation and intercompany agreements, withholding tax on cross-border flows, and coordination with tax advisors in each market.
• Treasury and cash. Cash flow forecasting, multi-currency banking and FX exposure, payment runs, and working capital management.
• Management reporting. Monthly management accounts, variance analysis, and the reporting pack that goes to the CFO and the executive team.
• Budgeting and forecasting. Annual budget cycle, rolling reforecasts, and departmental cost tracking against plan.
• AR and AP. Client invoicing (including revenue-share and hybrid commercial models), collections, supplier payments, and the controls around both.
• Controls and process. Owning the finance policy set, closing the gaps that come with a group that has grown fast, and improving systems and process as you go.
• Partnering. Working with Legal, HR and Commercial on entity structure, contracts, payroll inputs and commercial deal modelling.

The Successful Candidate:

• Substantial hands-on accounting experience in a multi-entity, multi-country group - you have personally run consolidation, intercompany and cross-border reporting, not just reviewed someone else's work.
• Full-cycle exposure: you have done close, statutory reporting, tax, treasury, AR/AP and management reporting, rather than specialising in one of them.
• Experience in a B2B business, with the commercial models that come with it - contracted clients, revenue share, licence and integration fees, milestone billing.
• Proven experience managing a finance team - you have hired, developed and held people accountable directly, including across locations and time zones.
• Comfort operating where structure is still being built. You are expected to fix things that are not yet clean, not to inherit a finished system.
• Professional qualification (ACCA, ACA, CPA, CIMA or local equivalent) or an equivalent depth of practical experience.
• Fluent English, written and spoken.
• Willing and able to relocate to Sofia and work from our office full-time. This is a firm requirement, not a preference.
• Experience in iGaming or sportsbook, on the supplier / B2B side - you understand what it means to invoice operators, what regulated-market compliance demands of a supplier, and how licensing obligations flow through to finance.
• Experience implementing or upgrading an ERP / accounting system.
• Experience supporting audit, due diligence or a transaction process.
• Experience with automation of finance processes.

Interested?

If the position has caught your attention and you wish to apply, please upload your CV along with your contact info. If you want to know more about the position.

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