Financial Controller - Region

Evolution is a market-leading developer and provider of products and services for online casino entertainment. Our excellence is driven by over 20,000 EVOlutioneers across 40 markets worldwide, working in product innovation, software development, IT solutions, game hosting, and business support. Evolution’s dynamic and creative environment creates a unique opportunity for personal and professional growth.

Our integrated business-to-business solutions guarantee that our clients can always provide an unrivalled online entertainment experience to their players globally. We thrive on remaining an award-winning digital powerhouse of entertainment products and services.

Our regional

Finance Function provides enhanced financial and commercial support to our local management.

We are seeking an experienced Financial Controller for the Africa Region to take ownership of the regional finance function. The role will combine financial controlling, FP&A, commercial business partnering, tax and statutory compliance, revenue and transactional finance, treasury, strategic financial support and managing the forecasting and budget cycle.

The successful candidate will work closely with the Africa CEO, Commercial leadership, Group Finance, central financial controlling and billing teams, external accounting, supports the local HR BP on payroll, auditors, regulators, and other key stakeholders across the region.

We are seeking a Financial Controller to take over these functions which include:

FP&A, Performance Monitoring & Business Partnering

• Take responsibility for financial performance monitoring of the African Commercial/KAM teams, including analysis of revenue, GGR, direct promotion costs, Opex and other key financial trends.
• Monitor performance against targets, budgets and forecasts, identifying key variances, risks and opportunities.
• Prepare and deliver monthly management reporting, including GGR, revenue, Opex, Capex and other relevant financial metrics.
• Lead the regional budgeting, forecasting and financial planning cycles across revenue, Opex and Capex.
• Partner with the regional CEO and Commercial leadership to provide meaningful financial and commercial insight, support decision-making and drive effective cost management.
• Provide financial analysis and recommendations to support regional strategy and business performance.
• Support central financial controlling teams with regional analysis and provide insight into contracts and activities managed outside the local teams.
• Oversee the month-end close process across regional entities, ensuring accurate, complete and timely financial reporting in accordance with IFRS.
• Maintain oversight of balance sheet integrity, including intercompany balances, provisions, allocations and reconciliations.
• Provide IFRS technical guidance on accounting classifications, policy application and emerging accounting standards.
• Coordinate and lead internal and external financial and tax audit processes, acting as the primary point of contact for external auditors.
• Liaise with outsourced accounting providers across South Africa and other African countries and take responsibility for the quality, accuracy and timeliness of their output.
• Ensure appropriate financial controls are maintained across the regional operations.

Tax, Statutory & Regulatory Compliance

• Manage regional corporate tax compliance and obligations, including CIT, VAT and Dividend Withholding Tax.
• Ensure timely and accurate monthly, bi-annual and annual tax and statutory submissions.
• Own and coordinate regulatory reporting to relevant authorities, including SARS, SARB and StatsSA.
• Ensure accurate BBBEE-related financial reporting and support the company's transformation objectives.
• Provide financial information and support to internal compliance teams where required.
• Ensure compliance with applicable financial, tax, regulatory and treasury requirements across the African region in collaboration with the global tax team.

Payroll (System, Compliance and Statutory)

Encompassing  MP, SDL, UIF, ETI and the following resincluding the following:

• Supporting HR with employee benefit calculations, financial impact assessments, etc.
• Keep up to date with employees tax developments
• Regular StatsSA definition updates to ensure accurate reporting
• Classification (or reclassification) of earnings-, deductions-, company contributions- types, etc. on the SAGE system according to the ITA
• Review of monthly EMP
  201 submissions, including review of monthly ETI calculations
• Related…