WHO ARE WE
We’re Entain. Our vision is to be the world leader in sports betting and gaming entertainment by creating the most exciting and trusted experience for our customers, revolutionising the gambling space as we go. We're home to a global family of more than 25 well-known brands, and with a focus on sustainability and growth, we will transform our sector for our players and for ourselves.
It’s a safe bet that the next chapter of the Entain story is going to be epic on a truly global scale. Want to know more? Click here for a short video.
WHAT'S IN IT FOR YOU
We offer a competitive industry salary plus a generous annual company bonus. Other benefits include 25 days annual leave, pension scheme (matched up to 6%), private healthcare, a free subscription to the wellbeing app Unmind, our share save scheme and a great selection of professional development and in house training tools for you to use.
That's not all, you will also have access to our bespoke benefits platform that allows you to choose the benefits that are most important to you. Oh, and let’s not forget regular company social events, parties and team building activities!
Our UK offices are based in London and Nottingham, where we operate on a hybrid working model. (2+ days in the office)
This role is based out of our Stratford office.
WHAT YOU’LL DO
We are looking for someone to join us on a FIXED TERM CONTRACT for a minimum of 9 months to cover Maternity. In this role your key responsibility will be to produce timely, accurate and insightful Management Accounting, and Reporting for the Ladbrokes Coral Retail Division. Ensure a strong commercial understanding of the division so that all relevant process improvements and cost opportunities can be realised. Balance Sheet knowledge is key to this role.
Key Accountabilities
• Preparation of monthly management accounts, ensuring these are delivered to a high quality meeting reporting deadlines.
• Ensure balance sheet reconciliations are completed to agreed deadlines with all reconciling items investigated and resolved promptly
• Deliver insightful analysis and commentary on all key variances to budget/forecast/prior year to explain and drive performance
• Ensure certain group reporting requirements are completed within required deadlines and to a high standard
• Assist in the preparation of annual budgets - to create, review and upload annual budgets
• Assist in collation of audit files and audit deliverables for Interim and year-end audit.
• Ensuring that all queries from internal customers are dealt with effectively
• Support ad-hoc analysis in conjunction with key stakeholders to understand key drivers and any financial impacts
• Provide analytical support on key business decisions,
• Build good working relationships with key contacts in order to understand the business and the business needs
• Work with the wider Finance team regarding financial reporting requirements and improvements
WHO YOU ARE
• Finance Qualification – Qualified / Part Qualified (ACCA, ACA, CIMA)
• Min 5 years experience in management accounting
• Experience of planning, forecasting and delivery of insight through analysis
• Strong level of Excel skills (v/h lookups, sum-ifs, pivot tables, etc)
• Experience with reporting and presentation of data
• Ability to manage and manipulate large volumes of data
• Strong relationship building and interpersonal skills
• Demonstrable commercial awareness
• Results driven, can work at fast pace whilst ensuring accuracy.
• Has the ability to take ownership of an area and drive improvement
Sound interesting? We think so!
