Finance Director - International Sportsbook Group

About the role

The client is an international B2B sportsbook product business operating across several countries and legal entities. Its finance function supports a group spanning different jurisdictions, currencies, tax regimes and reporting calendars while the commercial side moves quickly. This is a hands-on leadership role with end-to-end ownership of the day-to-day finance function and its team, staying close to the ledger, the numbers and the CFO.

Key responsibilities

• Lead, structure and develop the finance team across locations, set priorities around the close calendar, manage performance and hire as the group grows.
• Own month-end and year-end close, consolidation, intercompany reconciliation, eliminations and the integrity of the group ledger.
• Coordinate statutory accounts, external auditors and accounting providers, keeping audit files clean and defensible.
• Act as finance point of contact with regulators and manage the ongoing relationship with them.
• Oversee corporate tax, VAT, transfer-pricing documentation, intercompany agreements, withholding tax and coordination with advisers in each market.
• Manage cash-flow forecasting, multi-currency banking, FX exposure, payment runs and working capital.
• Produce monthly management accounts, variance analysis and the reporting pack for the CFO and executive team.
• Lead the annual budget, rolling reforecasts and departmental cost tracking against plan.
• Oversee client invoicing, including revenue-share and hybrid commercial models, collections, supplier payments and their controls.
• Own finance policies, close gaps created by rapid growth and improve systems and processes.
• Work with Legal, HR and Commercial on entity structure, contracts, payroll inputs and commercial deal modelling.

Required profile

• Substantial hands-on accounting experience in a multi-entity, multi-country group, including personal consolidation, intercompany and cross-border reporting.
• Full-cycle exposure across close, statutory reporting, tax, treasury, AR/AP and management reporting.
• Experience in a B2B business with contracted clients and commercial models such as revenue share, licence and integration fees and milestone billing.
• Proven experience managing a finance team across locations and time zones.
• Professional qualification such as ACCA, ACA, CPA or CIMA, a local equivalent, or equivalent depth of practical experience.
• Fluent written and spoken English.
• Willingness and ability to relocate to Sofia and work from the office full-time (firm requirement).

Required skills

• Consolidation, intercompany and cross-border reporting
• Tax, treasury and statutory reporting
• Managing a finance team and hiring

Possibly relevant: iGaming or sportsbook experience, ERP implementation, audit support and process automation.