Technical Accountant & Consolidation Manager

What you’ll do

• Work in conjunction with the Head of Accounting on the monthly, quarterly and annual IFRS consolidation process for the Group, coordinating inputs, eliminations, intercompany balances, foreign exchange and consolidation adjustments.
• Prepare and review the Group’s consolidated financial statements, supporting schedules and disclosures, ensuring they are accurate, complete and delivered on time.
• Own the consolidation timetable, working with finance teams across the Group to resolve issues and maintain clear accountability for deliverables.
• Perform technical accounting analyses for significant or complex transactions, including reviewing contracts and assessing their accounting treatment.
• Prepare clear accounting position papers that document the relevant facts, analysis, conclusions and required actions.
• Coordinate and manage the annual external audit process, acting as the primary interface with auditors and ensuring audit requests are complete, well supported and resolved efficiently.
• Support acquisitions by coordinating with Head of Accounting opening balance sheet reviews and the integration of acquired entities into the Group consolidation process.
• Maintain Group accounting policies and support their consistent application across entities, including where IFRS and / or US GAAP considerations need to be assessed.
• Identify weaknesses or inefficiencies in consolidation, reporting and financial close processes, then design and implement practical improvements.
• Build repeatable processes, documentation and controls that reduce manual effort, improve the quality of reporting and make the audit cycle easier for the wider Finance team.
• Act as a trusted technical accounting partner to Finance, Legal, business leaders and entity-level finance teams across the Group.

Requirements & Qualifications

• Professional accounting qualification or equivalent experience, such as ACA, ACCA, CPA or a comparable qualification.
• Demonstrated experience leading group consolidations and preparing consolidated financial statements under IFRS.
• Strong technical accounting experience, including the ability to review contracts, assess complex transactions and prepare well-reasoned accounting position papers.
• Experience managing an external audit cycle and acting as the primary point of contact for auditors.
• Experience working in, or closely supporting, a publicly traded company or another environment with rigorous financial reporting and control requirements.
• Working knowledge of US GAAP, or the ability to assess and explain the relevant differences between IFRS and US GAAP in practice.
• A practical, solutions-oriented approach: able to identify what is wrong, determine why it happened, recommend how to fix it and follow through on implementation.

Nice to have / Preferred

• Experience with purchase price accounting, opening balance sheet reviews and post-acquisition integration.
• Experience in a multi-entity, international group with operations across different currencies and jurisdictions.
• Experience in media, entertainment, technology or video games.
• Experience improving consolidation tools, financial close processes, reporting systems or internal controls.
• Big Four training or experience, particularly where followed by hands-on experience in a publicly traded or similarly complex company.

What we offer

This is an opportunity to establish and own a core Group finance capability at an international games company. You will work across Sweden, the UK and the US, partnering with teams across the Group and helping shape how consolidation, technical accounting, acquisitions and external reporting operate as Atari continues to integrate its businesses.

As the first dedicated hire for this function, you will have meaningful ownership from the outset and the opportunity to build processes that are both technically robust and practical for the teams using them.

Alongside that, we offer flexible hours, enhanced holiday, company sick pay, pension enrolment, and annual pay reviews. You'll also benefit from enhanced maternity and paternity leave, dependants leave, career breaks, and bi-annual appraisals. Additional benefits include life insurance, a health cash plan, and mental health support through Saldo, plus metro pass and cycle schemes, in-person and virtual events, access to previously released titles, and the chance to work with cutting-edge technology.

EEO Statement

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