LATAM Finance Controller
The LATAM Finance Controller role requires a highly senior professional capable of combining leadership behaviours with strong technical expertise. The position demands the ability to manage third parties, prioritise competing demands, and make well-balanced decisions considering risks and benefits. However, this is fundamentally a hands-on role. The successful candidate is not expected to operate solely through delegation, but rather to demonstrate technical depth, resilience, and autonomy in directly solving complex problems.
- Oversee local accounting, including coordination with the external accounting firm.
- Support audits and liaise with internal teams to ensure compliance.
- Manage US GAAP accounting through Oracle, ensuring proper translation of local books.
- Understand budget assumptions and explain variances between actuals and forecasts.
- Monitor tax compliance in coordination with the global Tax team.
- Review intercompany agreements and transfer pricing policies.
- Identify tax optimisation opportunities (credits recovery and structural efficiencies).
- Control Marketing budget and conduct periodic reviews with local teams.
- Manage vendors, ensuring compliance with procurement policies and maintaining clear communication regarding payment timelines and cycles, particularly with marketing agencies and affiliates.
- Manage treasury activities, including cash management, low-risk investments, and relationships with payment service providers (PSPs), optimising liquidity and seeking more efficient and cost-effective solutions.
- Ensure compliance with regulatory financial obligations and internal compliance requirements.
- Strong technical expertise in accounting, tax, and finance (required).
- Self-awareness regarding technical gaps, with a proactive and continuous learning mindset, particularly within a new and evolving regulatory environment (required).
- Analytical profile with a strong focus on root cause identification and problem-solving (required).
- High degree of autonomy, ownership, and accountability (required).
- Ability to balance strategic thinking with operational execution (required).
- Willingness to develop a solid understanding of the betting and sports industries, enabling interpretation of financial data within its broader business context and the proposal of conceptually sound solutions (required).
- Fluent English (required).
- Comfortable working in a Windows and Microsoft-based environment (macOS will not be provided) (required).
- Chance to turn recognition from leaders and colleagues into amazing prizes.
- Join a winning team of talented people.
- Be a part of an inclusive and supporting community where everyone is celebrated for being themselves.
Entain is one of the world's largest sports betting and gaming entertainment groups and a FTSE 100 company. Formed when GVC Holdings rebranded as Entain in December 2020, its brands trace their history back to the 1880s and include bwin, Coral, Foxy, Gala, Ladbrokes and partypoker. Through its joint venture with MGM Resorts International, it powers BetMGM in the United States with its proprietary technology. Headquartered in London, Entain employs over 30,000 people with offices across 19 countries.