Senior Analyst – EMEA Statutory Reporting and Compliance
Aristocrat is looking for a Senior Analyst to join the finance organisation to ensure the integrity, precision, and adherence of statutory reporting and tax duties throughout the EMEA region. This role is responsible for upholding robust governance and providing high-quality statutory reporting while ensuring consistency between group and local requirements.
The position involves a broad technical range and regional influence within a complex multinational setting. The successful candidate will handle statutory reporting and audit tasks, provide technical accounting advice on complex deals, and collaborate with regional controllers and external consultants to promote uniform reporting methods.
- Support the preparation and filing of statutory financial statements for EMEA entities, ensuring information is accurate and delivered to agreed timelines.
- Coordinate information required for tax returns in partnership with regional finance departments and tax advisors.
- Assist with technical accounting research and analysis under IFRS and local GAAP, with mentorship from senior team members.
- Support the assessment and documentation of accounting treatments for new or unusual transactions, including preparation of accounting position papers where required.
- Support external audits coordination, including tracking requests, and responding to auditor queries.
- Follow internal control frameworks, corporate policies, and documentation standards across all assigned activities.
- Monitor updates to accounting standards, tax regulations, and statutory requirements, and help assess their potential impact.
- Promote uniformity, operational improvement, and effective use of reporting tools across statutory reporting and compliance tasks.
- Support statutory reporting through the quality review of key balance sheet accounts and reconciliations, working closely with the Accounting Operations team.
- Maintain clear working papers, trackers, and supporting documentation, and communicate issues and progress promptly to relevant collaborators.
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field, or equivalent relevant experience (required).
- Progress toward a professional qualification such as ACCA, ACA, CPA (preferred).
- Relevant experience in accounting, audit, statutory reporting, or financial reporting, ideally within a multinational organization (required).
- Solid understanding of IFRS and a curiosity about developing expertise in local reporting requirements (required).
- Experience supporting external audits or preparing financial documents and audit schedules (preferred).
- Understanding of internal controls, reconciliations, and financial governance principles (required).
- Strong analytical and organizational skills, attention to detail, and the ability to prepare documentation and communicate effectively with a range of collaborators (required).
- Experience with Workiwa software (nice-to-have).
- Compensation package designed to stay competitive in the market, support wellbeing, and recognise contribution.
- Pay-for-performance belief in rewarding individual impact.
- Specific compensation package determined by factors such as skills, experience, qualifications, and location.
- May be eligible for annual bonuses and incentives, health and wellbeing benefits, paid time off, retirement plans, insurance coverage, and other local or statutory benefits depending on role and location.
- Specific details about compensation and benefits will be discussed during the recruitment process.
Aristocrat Leisure Limited is an Australian gaming and technology company and one of the world's largest providers of gambling products. Listed on the Australian Securities Exchange and headquartered in Sydney, it designs and manufactures electronic gaming machines and casino-management systems, and runs sizeable online real-money gaming (Aristocrat Interactive) and mobile games (Pixel United) businesses. Founded in 1953, the group employs more than 7,000 people across over 20 locations worldwide. It is the largest gaming-machine manufacturer in Australia and among the biggest slot-machine makers globally.