Hybrid Finance Manager

at Flutter Entertainment

• Job title: Finance Manager
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Mid level, Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Flutter, Oracle
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Dublin, Ireland

About the role

• Finance Manager managing Global Intercompany & Statutory Reporting for Flutter. Overseeing compliance, financial reporting, and intercompany transactions with a focus on internal controls.

Responsibilities

• Project manage the Group intercompany Operational Transfer Pricing (OTP) reconciliation and reporting requirements for quarterly submissions.
• Working closely with the Group Transfer Pricing team, Group Tax team and numerous Flutter divisions to ensure entities’ closing reported intercompany recharges are complete and summarised accurately.
• Work with tax to ensure completeness of transfer pricing and cross charges across each of the Group entities.
• Support the improvement of internal controls.
• Work with internal controls team and the external auditors to ensure compliance with SOx requirements and provide process notes or walkthroughs where needed, particularly with respect to transfer pricing requirements that fall under Group Intercompany.
• Manage projects related to finance transformation as required.
• As part of the ongoing Polaris project, work with the systems teams, Deloitte, and other stakeholders to align on design and implementation of Intercompany systems, such as ARCS reconciliation tool.
• Work with VAT to ensure compliance with VAT requirements.
• Work closely with Group Reporting to meet month-end financial close requirements and ensure intercompany balances and transactions eliminate across the Group.
• Provide financial support and advice to the division’s operational business units and FP&A regarding intercompany recharges, where applicable.
• Oversee the preparation of statutory financial reporting for the Group’s legal entities as required by local jurisdictions, liaising with various teams across the Group, including local finance teams, Tax, Legal, Company Secretarial etc.
• Design efficient processes and procedure enhancements for all aspects of intercompany (utilising essential systems including Oracle, Alteryx, AGIS and in-house AI tools).
• Ensure any legal entity reporting adjustments are properly tracked, supported and reflected in the accounting recording system (Oracle), as applicable.
• Support Tax on tax accounting and external tax audits or investigation.
• Work closely with Tax and Company Secretarial to liquidate and deregister dormant companies.
• Continuously improve the monthly close process and related outputs, working with different finance teams.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with key stakeholders, both those within Intercompany and statutory reporting and those within the Global Finance organisation more broadly such as Treasury and Tax, different Flutter brands and divisions.
• Research and conclude on technical accounting issues relating to intercompany which impact the Group.
• People management – responsible for the management and training of Financial Accountants and other junior members of the team.
• Assist senior managers and directors in the oversight of resourcing.
• Technical understanding over work prepared by analysts in the team, providing support, advise and first level review when required.

Requirements

• Qualified Accountant with 5+ years of experience, preferably gained in a multi-national / plc environment or a Big-4 accounting firm.
• Experience of preparing/reviewing statutory financial statements under multiple accounting standards, preferable IFRS and US GAAP experience.
• US GAAP and IFRS knowledge.
• Experience automating processes and evaluating process design.
• Assertive and confident, able to operate credibly with the most senior stakeholders.
• Proven experience in designing and maintaining a strong internal control environment (SOX or equivalent) and in developing/implementing reporting & operating process improvements.
• Strong financial accounting experience with a solid understanding of current/relevant technical accounting issues.
• Strong Financial Systems experience – Oracle and Hyperion would be preferable.
• Excellent MS Office skills, in a fast-paced environment.
• Excellent time management skills.
• Experience with accounting for Transfer Pricing agreements, ideally within a large corporation.

Benefits

• Bonus
• Uncapped holiday allowance
• Enhanced pension scheme
• Private healthcare
• Life assurance
• Income protection
• Hybrid working
• £1,000 annual self-development learning fund
• Paid volunteering days
• Enhanced parental leave
• Wellbeing fund (£/€250 a year)
• Recognition programs