Senior Manager - EMEA Statutory Reporting & Compliance

GamblingCareers.com; Kraków; On-site; PLN 260,000 - 360,000; Full time

Job summary

Aristocrat in Kraków is seeking a Senior Finance Leader to own statutory reporting and tax compliance across EMEA. You will ensure accuracy, governance, and alignment between group and local requirements while leading external audits and mentoring regional finance teams.

This role offers broad technical exposure in a multinational environment, with responsibility for balance sheet integrity, tax coordination, and driving process improvements in reporting.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of statutory reporting and tax compliance across a global organisation.
• Strong technical accounting expertise with IFRS and/or US GAAP.
• Experience coordinating and managing external audits.
• Solid understanding of internal controls and governance frameworks.
• Excellent analytical, documentation, and collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead statutory financial reporting across EMEA entities, ensuring timely and accurate filing of local financial statements.
• Coordinate regional tax compliance with external advisors, ensuring timely corporate tax, VAT, and other returns.
• Provide technical accounting mentorship on complex transactions, ensuring IFRS and local GAAP conformity.
• Review and assess accounting treatment of new or unusual transactions with position papers.
• Partner with Regional Controllers to align group reporting with local statutory requirements.
• Manage and coordinate external audits across the region as primary contact with auditors.
• Ensure governance and compliance with internal control frameworks and policies.
• Monitor changes in accounting standards, tax regulations, and statutory requirements across EMEA.
• Foster consistency and continual improvements in statutory reporting and compliance workflows.
• Coordinate balance sheet integrity and ensure provisions, accruals, and disclosures are recorded.
• Support legal entity rationalisation, restructuring, and new entity set-ups in the region.
• Provide leadership and mentorship to local finance teams on statutory and technical matters.

Skills

Statutory reporting

IFRS/GAAP

Audit coordination

Tax compliance

Governance

Education

Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance

ACCA/ACA/CPA or equivalent preferred

Job description

At the heart of our organisation is a commitment to delivering innovative, high-quality outcomes that create lasting value for our customers and partners. We foster a collaborative culture grounded in continuous improvement, accountability, and teamwork—core to how we operate and succeed. As we continue to scale and evolve, finance plays a critical role in ensuring strong governance, operational excellence, and the insights needed to drive sustainable growth.

This role is central to our finance organisation, ensuring the integrity, accuracy, and compliance of statutory reporting and tax obligations across EMEA. As a key technical finance leader, you will play a critical role in maintaining robust governance, delivering high-quality statutory reporting, and ensuring alignment between group and local requirements.

What makes this opportunity compelling is the breadth of technical exposure and regional influence it offers within a complex, multinational environment. You will lead statutory reporting and audit engagements, provide technical accounting guidance on complex transactions, and partner closely with Regional Controllers and external advisors. This role offers the opportunity to strengthen compliance frameworks, drive consistency in reporting practices, and influence how statutory and technical finance capabilities evolve—making it ideal for someone who grows with technical excellence, leadership, and driving continuous improvement.

What You'll Do

• Lead statutory financial reporting across EMEA entities, ensuring timely and accurate preparation and filing of local financial statements.
• Coordinate regional tax compliance in partnership with external advisors, ensuring timely submission of corporate tax, VAT, and other statutory returns.
• Provide technical accounting mentorship on complex transactions, ensuring compliance with IFRS and local GAAP requirements.
• Review and assess the accounting treatment of new or unusual transactions, detailing technical position papers where required.
• Partner with Regional Controllers to ensure alignment between group reporting and local statutory requirements.
• Manage and coordinate external audits across the region, acting as the primary point of contact for auditors.
• Ensure strong governance and compliance with internal control frameworks and corporate policies.
• Monitor changes in accounting standards, tax regulations, and statutory requirements across EMEA, assessing business impact.
• Foster consistency and continual advancement in statutory reporting and compliance workflows.
• Coordinate balance sheet integrity and ensure appropriate provisions, accruals, and disclosures are recorded.
• Support legal entity rationalisation, restructuring activities, and new entity set-ups within the region.
• Provide leadership and mentorship to local finance teams on statutory and technical matters.

What We're Looking For

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance or equivalent experience; professional qualification (ACCA, ACA, CPA or equivalent) strongly preferred.
• More than 5 years of established experience handling statutory reporting and tax compliance across a global organization.
• Strong technical accounting expertise with experience in IFRS and/or US GAAP.
• Experience coordinating and managing external audits.
• Strong understanding of internal controls and corporate governance frameworks.
• Excellent analytical, documentation, and collaborator management skills, with the ability to communicate complex technical matters clearly.

Why Aristocrat?

Aristocrat is a world leader in gaming content and technology, and a top-tier publisher of free-to-play mobile games. We deliver great performance for our B2B customers and bring joy to the lives of the millions of people who love to play our casino and mobile games. And while we focus on fun, we never forget our responsibilities. We strive to lead the way in responsible gameplay, and to lift the bar in company governance, employee wellbeing and sustainability. We’re a diverse business united by shared values and an inspiring mission to bring joy to life through the power of play.

We aim to create an environment where individual differences are valued, and all employees have the opportunity to realize their potential. We welcome and encourage applications from all people regardless of age, gender, race, ethnicity, cultural background, disability status or LGBTQ+ identity. EEO M/F/D/V

• World Leader in Gaming Entertainment
• Robust benefits package
• Global career opportunities

Our Values

• All about the Player
• Talent Unleashed
• Collective Brilliance
• Good Business Good Citizen

Travel Expectations

None

Additional Information

At this time, we are unable to sponsor work visas for this position. Candidates must be authorized to work in the job posting location for this position on a full-time basis without the need for current or future visa sponsorship.