Financial Controller, Head of Accounting

Devoted Studios is a globally remote game development company specializing in Co-development, Porting, and End-to-End Art Production for the global gaming industry.

We collaborate across time zones to support projects on all major platforms, engines and styles - from AAA titles to emerging technologies. Our team includes world-class talents who bring deep expertise in external development, pipeline optimization, and creative problem-solving. Whether it’s porting games to new systems, enhancing gameplay features, or crafting stunning visuals, Devoted Studios operates as a trusted, flexible extension of our partners’ internal teams.

We are proud to be the development partner of choice for industry leaders such as:

• Epic
• Xbox
• Meta
• Obsidian Entertainment
• Riot
• Gearbox Software

We are hiring a Financial Controller, Head of Accounting to own the company’s core controllership function.

This is a narrow, high-accountability controllership role. We want a strong finance operator with deep competence in controllership, financial close, financial and management accounting, reporting, and finance systems.

For matters outside the Controller’s core body of knowledge - such as country-specific tax, local statutory accounting, specialist compliance matters, ERP implementation support, or niche technical issues - the expectation is not that the Controller performs all of that work personally. The expectation is that the Controller remains accountable for the result by selecting, coordinating, and project-managing external specialists effectively, while leading the work to the results.

The right candidate is both a strong subject-matter professional in core finance and an effective manager of complex workstreams involving internal stakeholders and outsourced advisors.

• Lead the monthly, quarterly, and year-end close across multiple legal entities.
• Own general ledger integrity, balance sheet reconciliations, accruals, deferrals, foreign exchange accounting, and close documentation.
• Maintain a well-structured chart of accounts, accounting policies, and supporting schedules.
• Deliver timely, accurate, audit-ready financial information to the CFO.
• Identify material risks, unusual transactions, accounting issues, and control gaps proactively and solve them.
• Implement effective internal controls over financial reporting

• Oversee management accounting, work-in-progress, and revenue recognition for a project-based services business.
• Apply appropriate revenue recognition methodology under IFRS 15 and corresponding US GAAP principles where relevant.
• Coordinate closely with delivery and FP&A to ensure project economics are reflected accurately in the accounting records.
• Improve the quality of project-level margin reporting, billing logic, and financial visibility.

• Oversee billing, collections, aged receivables, vendor payables, payment controls, and treasury routines.
• Review and approve daily bank reconciliations, payment journals.
• Act as finance process owner for payroll accounting and ensure payroll journals, taxes, benefits, withholdings, and allocations are recorded accurately.
• Support year-end payroll and contractor reporting requirements in coordination with internal and external providers.

• Oversee group consolidation procedures, intercompany accounting, reconciliations, eliminations, and supporting schedules.
• Maintain fixed asset accounting and depreciation records, accounting for tax differences due to tax and GAAP rules.

• Serve as the finance functional owner for Quickbooks (the first phase) and Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central (the second phase).
• Help lead finance process design, implementation, and continuous improvement in Business Central and related systems.
• Maintain finance master data, policy documentation, and workflows documentation.
• Partner with external ERP consultants, implementation partners, and internal stakeholders to resolve system and process issues effectively.
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