Finance Manager

Are you a kid at heart looking to build a career with a leading global children's toy, entertainment and digital gaming company?

At Spin Master, our unwavering commitment to open mindedness, integrity and innovation is a great part of what has made us an industry leader. How do we stay ahead of the pack? By hiring the best and brightest minds—and that’s why we want you
**Spin Master is a leading global children's entertainment company, creating exceptional play experiences through it’s three creative centres: Toys, Entertainment and Digital Games. With distribution in over 100 countries, Spin Master is best known for award-winning brands PAW Patrol®, Bakugan®, Kinetic Sand®, Air Hogs®, Hatchimals®, Rubik’s Cube® and GUND®, and is the global toy licensee for other popular properties.

**What will you work on?**

**How will you create impact?**
- Business partnering, supporting Italian and Greek management teams as required in understanding their financial data and performance, including the preparation of ad hoc reports.
- Ultimate responsibility for financial control reporting on a day-to-day basis.
- Ensure that the financial reporting function prepares and delivers, in accordance with Group Reporting timelines and high-quality standards, IFRS based financial reporting to the Company’s parent.
- Ensure the accuracy and integrity of the financial and management reporting;
- Manage reporting of financial information to Corporate Headquarters, including actuals/budget/forecast submission and reporting of performance against objectives.
- Preparation of the bi-weekly/monthly cash flow forecasts for the Italian markets, including variance analyses to previous submissions.
- Review and certify account reconciliations via the Blackline tool.
- Review inter-company reconciliations.
- Ensures cost effectiveness and adherence to cost budgets across the company.
- Manage the accounting process for various transactions.
- Liaise with external tax advisors to prepare the VAT, WHT and CIT returns.
- Liaise with Shared Services in Bratislava and corporate functions of Accounting Reporting, Tax, Treasury, Internal Controls Audit, IT, and Indirect Procurement.
- Preparation of Statutory Accounts and compliance with local GAAP.
- Driving continuous improvement and step changes in processes to deliver a more efficient and effective financial reporting and analysis.
- Maintain compliance with company process, controls and procedures to ensure organizational risks are minimized.
- Lead, motivate and develop direct reports as required.
- Ensure compliance with applicable local regulatory laws for financial and tax reporting, incl. Edoc management.
- Establishes and maintains appropriate and effective internal controls;
- Support and manage the SAP Upgrade to latest version of SAP S/4 Hana cloud (ShERPa Project), ensuring that Italy requirements are incorporated in the system design, while working closely with the Manager Europe SAP Implementation Lead, the SAP S/4 Solution Team, and with colleagues across the Spin Master organization in Europe and North America.
- Support other projects that are linked to ShERPa project (Anaplan and Blackline II) to ensure that these are implemented for Italy and Greece in line with business requirements.
- Assists in any other projects and the development of the Spin Master business in Europe.

**How will you fit into the team?**
The Finance Analyst, Italy will report to the Finance Manager.

**What are your skills and experience?**
- Qualified Accounting Professional with minimum 5-7 years of relevant experience preferably in the International/European FMCG or Fashion industries.
- Experience working with SAP and Business Intelligence
- Proficiency in SAP (2017), proficiency in SAP4/Hana will be an advantage
- Experience in SAP implementation will be an advantage
- Good knowledge of Excel
- In-depth knowledge in accounting (IFRS, local GAAP) and controlling, risk management and taxation;
- Excellent skills in English and Italian
- Good communication skills, rigorous, organised and able to work collaboratively with commercial and finance teams and manage people;
- Strong organizational skills, detail oriented and work independently;
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment;
- Ability to travel for business purposes as required
- #LI-MK1 #LI-Hybrid_

**What you can expect from us**:
Our mission is to Make Life More Fun with a vision to push the boundaries of innovation, creativity, and fun.
- Growth and Career Opportunities
- Flexible Work Hours
- Innovation, Collaboration and Fun
- Comprehensive Benefits
- Other fun Perks

**What’s it like to work here?**

Spin Master is a fast-paced, hands-on organization that provides many great opportunities for impactful decision-making; though our challenging start-up atmosphere isn’t for everyone, we have a proven record of opportunities for future advancement and internal transfers for our passionate and results driven team.

Everyone is welcome