Financial Control Manager

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Job Description:

Title: Manager, Accounting Operations

Region: EMEA

Reports to: Associate Director, Accounting Operations

Level: P5

Location: Sweden or UK.  Remote working will be considered for the right candidate.

This is a fixed-term (12 month) cover position supporting the Sweden Accounting Operations function.

Come join an organization that empowers our stakeholders to achieve more through trusted services that ensure accuracy, timeliness, privacy, and accessibility!

We are seeking a highly driven, innovative, and passionate Finance Manager to join the Accounting Operations team inside Finance Operations.  Accounting Operations provides large-scale, global accounting support for financial close, reporting, statutory compliance, and audit for over 300 ABK/Microsoft legal entities and lines of business.  We are a global team with staff and delivery centers around the world.  Accounting Operations is continuously expanding its scope, evolving operating models with intelligent automation, innovative processes, and offering cost efficient solutions for ABK.  We strive to provide end-to-end experiences for our customers with built-in compliance and intelligent insights.

As the Manager (12-month cover), you will oversee timely and accurate accounting close processes and governance through our business process outsourcing model, ensuring business continuity and accounting compliance.  You'll provide thought leadership, guiding successful execution of accounting, statutory, and financial reporting processes, engaging with stakeholders across ABK.  The role provides continuity for the existing Sweden Accounting Operations portfolio with responsibility for the Swedish legal entities including Midasplayer AB and nine other Sweden companies.  The ideal candidate brings curiosity, innovative thinking, and a strong background in accounting close, business partnering, process management, and collaboration.

ABK’s mission is to empower every person and every organization to achieve more.  With a growth mindset, we innovate, collaborate and uphold values of respect, integrity, and accountability fostering a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive.

In alignment with our ABK values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day.

Core Job Responsibilities:

Compliance and Reporting

• Ensure statutory financial statements and relevant tax filings are completed, filed timely, and in compliance with local laws and regulations across assigned legal entities.
• Support Global ABK's local statutory reporting and compliance process.
• Provide detailed financial analysis to support local tax filings and tax planning initiatives in collaboration with local tax team and external advisors. Liaise with Swedish external advisers and authorities as required to support statutory compliance and reporting.
• Preparation and review of tax provisions, including current and deferred tax calculations.
• Act as the primary point of contact for external auditors, managing the audit process from planning to completion.

Governance and Compliance

• Support intercompany accounting across EMEA group, transfer pricing calculations and related statutory reporting.
• Conduct governance of vendor teams performing Accounting Operations activities, including preparation and review of financial close journal entries, balance sheet account reconciliations, analytical reviews and other financial reporting in compliance with ABK accounting policies and guidelines.
• Research, review, and document accounting standards, guidelines, and policies.  Field complex questions from business partners in alignment with accounting policies.
• Conduct P&L and BS analysis and respond to inquiries from business and finance partners regarding actuals.

Issue Resolution and Support

• Investigate and resolve business partner inquiries, accounting deviations, and other anomalies.
• Serve as an escalation point of contact to resolve complex issues when governing vendors in a shared services environment.  Facilitate issue resolution with leadership, business partners, team members, and vendor leadership.
• Provide escalated support and troubleshooting to users.  Investigate and resolve business partner inquiries, accounting deviations, and other data anomalies.

Process Improvement and Optimization

• Implement and execute standard, global processes for key business activities.
• Manage continuous process improvement and identify process optimization and/or automation opportunities by evaluating and leveraging technology to enhance internal processes.

Requirements

• Qualified accountant with 3+ years post qualification work experience in accounting or finance
• Accounting close/financial reporting experience
• Influence without authority and drive accountability
• Strong collaboration and business partnership
• Strong verbal and written communication
• Extensive experience and proven ability to work with international teams
• Problem solving skills and root cause analysis with resolution
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and organizational skills.

Preferred abilities

• Strong preference for fluency in Swedish language
• Knowledge of Swedish GAAP (K3), Swedish tax regulations and filing
• Experience in Oracle, PowerBI and/or Hyperion Smartview

About King

With a mission of Making the World Playful, King is a leading interactive entertainment company for the mobile world with more than 20 years of history of delivering some of the world’s most iconic games in the mobile gaming industry, including the world-famous Candy Crush franchise, as well as other mobile titles such as Farm Heroes Saga. King games are played by more than 200 million monthly active users. King, part of Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), has Kingsters in Stockholm, Malmö, London, Barcelona, Berlin, Dublin, San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles and Malta. More information can be found at King.com or by following us on LinkedIn and @lifeatking on Instagram.