LATAM Finance Controller
The LATAM Finance Controller role requires a highly senior professional capable of combining leadership behaviours with strong technical expertise. The position demands the ability to manage third parties, prioritise competing demands, and make well-balanced decisions considering risks and benefits. However, this is fundamentally a hands-on role. The successful candidate is not expected to operate solely through delegation, but rather to demonstrate technical depth, resilience, and autonomy in directly solving complex problems.
- Oversee local accounting, including coordination with the external accounting firm.
- Support audits and liaise with internal teams to ensure compliance.
- Manage US GAAP accounting through Oracle, ensuring proper translation of local books.
- Understand budget assumptions and explain variances between actuals and forecasts.
- Monitor tax compliance in coordination with the global Tax team.
- Review intercompany agreements and transfer pricing policies.
- Identify tax optimisation opportunities (credits recovery and structural efficiencies).
- Control Marketing budget and conduct periodic reviews with local teams.
- Manage vendors, ensuring compliance with procurement policies and maintaining clear communication regarding payment timelines and cycles, particularly with marketing agencies and affiliates.
- Manage treasury activities, including cash management, low-risk investments, and relationships with payment service providers (PSPs), optimising liquidity and seeking more efficient and cost-effective solutions.
- Ensure compliance with regulatory financial obligations and internal compliance requirements.
- Strong technical expertise in accounting, tax, and finance (required).
- Self-awareness regarding technical gaps, with a proactive and continuous learning mindset, particularly within a new and evolving regulatory environment (required).
- Analytical profile with a strong focus on root cause identification and problem-solving (required).
- High degree of autonomy, ownership, and accountability (required).
- Ability to balance strategic thinking with operational execution (required).
- Willingness to develop a solid understanding of the betting and sports industries, enabling interpretation of financial data within its broader business context and the proposal of conceptually sound solutions (required).
- Fluent English (required).
- Comfortable working in a Windows and Microsoft-based environment (macOS will not be provided) (required).
- Chance to turn recognition from leaders and colleagues into amazing prizes.
- Join a winning team of talented people.
- Be a part of an inclusive and supporting community where everyone is celebrated for being themselves.
Welcome to Entain. Our journey as Entain began when we evolved from GVC Holdings on 9th December 2020, but our brands have been paving the way and making history since the 1880s. Today, we’re one of the world’s largest sports betting and gaming entertainment groups – a FTSE 100 company that is home to more than 25 widely recognised brands, such as bwin, Coral, Foxy, Gala, Ladbrokes and partypoker. But that’s just the beginning. We’re constantly broadening our horizons and expanding our global influence. For example, our partnership with MGM Resorts International has allowed us to make waves in the US by powering BetMGM with our bespoke and top-of-the-line technology. It’s with this unique technology that we’re revolutionising our industry, and we’re boldly working towards being THE world leader in sports betting and gaming. Really though, it’s the people that truly make us who we are. There’s over 30,000 of us around the world and counting, but we all play for the same team. We’re proud to promote a culture that shatters barriers to unite, and encourages uncompromised diversity of background, thought and experience. When we win, we win together. If you share our values and want to be part of the revolution, we want you on our team. With offices across 19 different countries, we have an excellent history of identifying and nurturing the finest talent on a global scale. We’re all about putting our customers at the heart of the action and, with us, you can help bring moments of excitement into people’s lives.