Senior Finance Manager
1 year FTC
Location - London/Dublin/Leeds/IOM
We're seeking an experienced Senior Manager to join our Finance team on a 12-month fixed-term contract. You'll play a pivotal role in supporting our statutory financial statements function and intercompany accounting operations, ensuring Flutter maintains the highest standards of financial accuracy, compliance, and control across our global operations. This is an opportunity to make a tangible impact on our financial reporting infrastructure while working with senior stakeholders across the organisation.
Flutter consists of two commercial divisions (FanDuel and International) and our central Flutter Functions; COO, Finance & Legal. Here in Flutter Functions we work with colleagues across all our divisions and regions to deliver something we call the Flutter Edge. It's our competitive advantage, our 'secret sauce' which plays a key part in our ongoing success and powers our brands and divisions, through Product, Tech, Expertise and Scale.
In Flutter Finance we pride ourselves in providing global expertise to ensure Flutter is financially healthy. Utilising our Flutter Edge to turbo-charge our capabilities.
We are a world leader in online sports betting and iGaming, with a market leading position in the US and across the world. We have an unparalleled portfolio of the most innovative, diverse and distinctive brands including FanDuel, Sky Betting & Gaming, Sportsbet, PokerStars, Paddy Power, Sisal, tombola, Betfair, MaxBet, Junglee Games and Adjarabet.
With our global scale and challenger attitude, through which we excite and entertain our customers, in a safe and sustainable way. Using our collective power, the Flutter Edge, we aim to disrupt the sector, learning from the past to create a better future for our customers, colleagues and communities.
- Support reviews for the local statutory financial statements function and subsidiary audit relationships, including planning, preparation, handling audit queries, and collaborating with partners
- Provide technical accounting advice and support to the team
- Review and approve monthly journal postings to ensure accuracy, completeness, and compliance with SOX prioritisation requirements
- Investigate and analyse significant variances within areas of responsibility and report findings to Leadership
- Maintain effective operation of the intercompany end-to-end process through cooperation with tax, treasury, and the extended finance team
- Build and maintain positive relationships with key collaborators including external auditors, regulators, and internal teams (Treasury, Tax, and Global Finance)
- Manage and develop a team of accounting professionals, providing guidance, coaching, and mentorship
- Prepare and review financial packs for assigned departments with high-level analysis and relevant variance commentary
- Coordinate the maintenance and improvement of internal controls
- Manage Group recharge accounting in conjunction with the transfer pricing and tax teams
- Coordinate accounting for and disclosure of tax workings in collaboration with the Flutter tax team
- Manage finance transformation projects as required
Required Qualifications & Experience:
- Qualified Accountant with 6–8+ years of progressive experience, preferably in a multinational/plc environment or Big-4 accounting firm
- IFRS and US GAAP experience
- Proven experience crafting and maintaining a strong internal control environment (SOX or equivalent in a highly regulated industry)
- Strong financial accounting experience with solid understanding of current technical accounting issues
- Experience with transfer pricing agreements, ideally within a large corporation
- Strong Financial Systems experience – Oracle Financials is an advantage
- Excellent MS Office skills, particularly Excel
- Excellent Communicator & Influencer: Effective across all communication types. Adjusts style to fit your audience. Communicates mission, vision, and values to encourage and empower others. Ensures understanding of how efforts impact the bigger picture.
- Commercial Acumen: Awareness of various roles within the Flutter group; remains informed about significant changes within the group and the broader gambling sector
- Big Problem Solver: Strong process, technical, and analytical skills; constantly explores and analyses future scenarios to help Flutter respond to change
- Innovator: Curious and creative; able to think laterally and non-linearly; courageous and tenacious
- Wins Together: Motivational leader and team builder; gains trust and support of others; able to establish and engage networks to get things done
- Assertive and confident, able to operate credibly with senior collaborators
- Ability to deliver high-quality work under pressure with tight deadlines
- Excellent time management skills
We are a flexible employer; whether you have personal commitments or a hobby that brings you joy, we want you to bring your best self to work and feel empowered to do so. We also like to share our success; after all you make it happen. We have an excellent benefits package that can be personalised to you:
- Bonus scheme
- Uncapped holiday allowance
- Enhanced pension scheme
- Private healthcare
- Life assurance
- Income protection
- Enhanced parental leave
We're working to be an inclusive employer, and we encourage people from all backgrounds, ways of thinking and working to apply. Everyone brings different perspectives and experiences; you don't have to meet all the requirements listed to apply for this role. If you need any adjustments to make this role work for you let us know, and we'll see how we can accommodate them.
