Senior Manager - D365 Accounting Operations
This role is central to our finance organisation, ensuring accurate, timely, and controlled financial operations that support decision-making and business performance across EMEA. As a key Finance Operations leader, you will maintain strong financial control, deliver high-quality reporting, and enable efficient, scalable operations. What makes this opportunity compelling is the chance to shape and lead a growing accounting operations function in a technology-enabled environment. You will harness D365 to improve processes, drive standardisation, and embed procedures while partnering with senior finance leaders. This role offers the opportunity to build and develop a high-performing team, influence the future of finance operations, and contribute to broader transformation initiatives.
- Lead day-to-day D365 Accounting Operations, ensuring accurate, timely, and controlled financial processing across EMEA.
- Manage and develop a team responsible for journals, balance sheet reconciliations, month-end close, reporting, and statutory support.
- Ensure compliance with policies, internal controls, and accounting standards.
- Drive operational excellence across D365 processes, maintaining quality delivery and close timelines.
- Partner with Controllers and Finance leaders to meet accounting, reporting, and control requirements.
- Collaborate across Finance Operations to deliver standardisation, automation, and continuous improvement.
- Support optimisation and adoption of D365 capabilities.
- Oversee reconciliations, transactional processing, and issue resolution to ensure data integrity.
- Support statutory and tax audits through accurate documentation and timely responses.
- Tack KPIs and performance metrics to drive accountability and improvement.
- Coach and develop team members, fostering a high-performing team culture.
- Help build scalable processes and ways of working within the regional finance operations team.
- Proven experience leading accounting operations or shared services teams in complex, multinational environments (required).
- Strong knowledge of general accounting, balance sheet reconciliations, and month-end close processes (required).
- Experience managing high-volume operations with a focus on financial controls (required).
- Working knowledge of ERP systems, ideally Microsoft Dynamics 365 (D365) (required).
- Track record of driving process improvement, automation, and operational efficiency (required).
- Strong stakeholder management skills, partnering with finance leaders and cross-functional teams (required).
- Experience maintaining robust internal controls and governance frameworks (required).
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and organisational skills with high attention to detail (required).
- Demonstrated leadership capability with experience developing and coaching teams (required).
- Ability to manage competing priorities in a fast-paced environment (required).
- Degree in Finance, Accounting, or related field; CPA, CA, ACCA or equivalent preferred (preferred).
- Experience in shared services or finance transformation environments is advantageous (nice-to-have).
- Robust benefits package
- Global career opportunities
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.