Finance Manager – Italy & Greece

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Are you a kid at heart looking to build a career with a leading global children’s toy, entertainment and digital gaming company?

At Spin Master, our unwavering commitment to open mindedness, integrity and innovation is a great part of what has made us an industry leader. How do we stay ahead of the pack? By hiring the best and brightest minds—and that’s why we want you!

Job Description:

Spin Master is a leading global children’s entertainment company, creating exceptional play experiences through it’s three creative centres: Toys, Entertainment and Digital Games. With distribution in over 100 countries, Spin Master is best known for award-winning brands PAW Patrol®, Bakugan®, Kinetic Sand®, Air Hogs®, Hatchimals®, Rubik’s Cube® and GUND®, and is the global toy licensee for other popular properties.

What will you work on?

Reporting to the Senior Finance Manager, South Europe, the Finance Manager is responsible for accurate and timely Financial Accounting, Reporting, Statutory & Control Compliance along with managing the statutory and accounting requirements for corporate headquarter reporting for European entities as required. The candidate will be a key contributor to the forecast & planning processes, working with the European business unit(s) to enable an understanding of local financial performance and developing consistent, concise forecasts and plans.

How will you create impact?

• Business partnering, supporting Italian and Greek management teams as required in understanding their financial data and performance, including the preparation of ad hoc reports.
• Ultimate responsibility for financial control & reporting on a day-to-day basis.
• Ensure that the financial reporting function prepares and delivers, in accordance with Group Reporting timelines and high-quality standards, IFRS based financial reporting to the Company’s parent.
• Ensure the accuracy and integrity of the financial and management reporting;
• Manage reporting of financial information to Corporate Headquarters, including actuals/budget/forecast submission and reporting of performance against objectives.
• Preparation of the bi-weekly/monthly cash flow forecasts for the Italian markets, including variance analyses to previous submissions.
• Review and certify account reconciliations via the Blackline tool.
• Review inter-company reconciliations.
• Ensures cost effectiveness and adherence to cost budgets across the company.
• Manage the accounting process for various transactions.
• Liaise with external tax advisors to prepare the VAT, WHT and CIT returns.
• Liaise with Shared Services in Bratislava and corporate functions of Accounting & Reporting, Tax, Treasury, Internal Controls & Audit, IT, and Indirect Procurement.
• Preparation of Statutory Accounts and compliance with local GAAP.
• Driving continuous improvement and step changes in processes to deliver a more efficient and effective financial reporting and analysis.
• Maintain compliance with company process, controls and procedures to ensure organizational risks are minimized.
• Lead, motivate and develop direct reports as required.
• Ensure compliance with applicable local regulatory laws for financial and tax reporting, incl. Edoc management.
• Establishes and maintains appropriate and effective internal controls;
• Support and manage the SAP Upgrade to latest version of SAP S/4 Hana cloud (ShERPa Project), ensuring that Italy requirements are incorporated in the system design, while working closely with the Manager Europe SAP Implementation Lead, the SAP S/4 Solution Team, and with colleagues across the Spin Master organization in Europe and North America.
• Support other projects that are linked to ShERPa project (Anaplan and Blackline II) to ensure that these are implemented for Italy and Greece in line with business requirements.
• Assists in any other projects and the development of the Spin Master business in Europe.

How will you fit into the team?

The Finance Analyst, Italy will report to the Finance Manager.

What are your skills and experience?

• Qualified Accounting Professional with minimum 5-7 years of relevant experience preferably in the International/European FMCG or Fashion industries.
• Experience working with SAP and Business Intelligence
• Proficiency in SAP (2017), proficiency in SAP4/Hana will be an advantage
• Experience in SAP implementation will be an advantage
• Good knowledge of Excel
• In-depth knowledge in accounting (IFRS, local GAAP) and controlling, risk management and taxation;
• Excellent skills in English and Italian
• Good communication skills, rigorous, organised and able to work collaboratively with commercial and finance teams and manage people;
• Strong organizational skills, detail oriented and work independently;
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment;
• Ability to travel for business purposes as required

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What you can expect from us:

Our mission is to Make Life More Fun with a vision to push the boundaries of innovation, creativity, and fun.

• Growth and Career Opportunities
• Flexible Work Hours
• Innovation, Collaboration and Fun
• Comprehensive Benefits
• Other fun Perks!

What’s it like to work here?

Spin Master is a fast-paced, hands-on organization that provides many great opportunities for impactful decision-making; though our challenging start-up atmosphere isn’t for everyone, we have a proven record of opportunities for future advancement and internal transfers for our passionate and results driven team.

Everyone is welcome in our sandbox and we are committed to an accessible and inclusive hiring process that provides reasonable accommodation to all applicants.

Spin Master strives to create an accessible and inclusive application and selection process and is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to job applicants who may require provisions to participate in the recruitment, selection and/or assessment processes. Should you require an accommodation, please contact our Talent Acquisition team, by email at JobsEU@spinmaster.com and we will work with you to meet your accessibility needs.

We do appreciate all interest; however only those selected for interview will be contacted.

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