Senior Accountant - Technical Reporting & Global Audits

Corporate:

Light & Wonder’s corporate team is comprised of incredible talent that works across the enterprise, defying boundaries to provide essential services in an extraordinary manner to ensure the success of the organization and the well-being of employees.

Corporate:

Light & Wonder’s corporate team is comprised of incredible talent that works across the enterprise, defying boundaries to provide essential services in an extraordinary manner to ensure the success of the organization and the well-being of employees.

Position Summary

As a Senior Accountant, Technical Reporting, you will join an exciting team of subject-matter experts taking complete ownership of legal entity reporting for jurisdictions around the world. Working closely with other teams throughout the Group, project manage audit and accounts projects to deliver financial statements to timetable.

As a team, we collaborate closely with our management accountant colleagues to monitor entity performance and deal with challenges as they arise. You will be the key contact for dealing with company auditors and will need to forge a strong, collaborative relationship with this critical advisor.

We provide technical accounting support to other functions requiring us to deliver complex subject matter to non-technical audiences. We are a positive, pro-active team and continually seek to deliver improvement throughout finance. We will own or support with improvement projects throughout the year.

We're looking for people who are full of ideas, want to challenge the norm and work to our core values…

• Dare to be Bold - We always bring courage to work to reach for the unbelievable.
• Uphold Integrity - We promote accountability and respect to raise the bar for ourselves and the industry.
• Never Settle - We relentlessly push forward to create the extraordinary in every detail.
• Celebrate Perspectives - We combine diverse talent to look at the familiar in unfamiliar ways.
• Win as a Team – We bring out the best in each other to share collective success.

• Ownership and timely delivery of the Group’s statutory accounts and audit projects around the world. Identify key project issues early and take pre-emptive action to address.
• Technical review of individual legal entity management accounts throughout the year to drive timely corrective action ahead of year end.
• Develop a strong and collaborative relationship with the auditor, understanding both their needs and the Group’s, to effectively manage audit projects from start to finish.
• Production of technical accounting papers and quality audit schedules for both the auditor and internal use, including technical accounting review of revenue recognition for new sales contracts.
• Engage and influence supporting internal corporate functions (including GL close, tax, internal audit and treasury) for audit project support and respond to their technical accounting requirements.
• Monitoring of legal entity compliance in support of the Group’s CoSec function.
• Plan and lead key project meetings to use time efficiently.
• Deliver improvement projects within the service centre. Projects are ad-hoc in nature and will cover a range of areas within the wider finance department.
• Adherence to policies and procedures, including SOX framework.
• Other duties will be required from time to time.

• Accountancy qualification (ACA, ACCA, ICAEW etc.)

• Ownership and timely delivery of the Group’s statutory accounts and audit projects around the world. Identify key project issues early and take pre-emptive action to address.
• Technical review of individual legal entity management accounts throughout the year to drive timely corrective action ahead of year end.
• Develop a strong and collaborative relationship with the auditor, understanding both their needs and the Group’s, to effectively manage audit projects from start to finish.
• Production of technical accounting papers and quality audit schedules for both the auditor and internal use, including technical accounting review of revenue recognition for new sales contracts.
• Engage and influence supporting internal corporate functions (including GL close, tax, internal…