Financial Analyst, Asia

Gaming:

Welcome to the world of land-based gaming. At Light & Wonder, it’s all about the games, and our Gaming team builds cutting-edge technology, products, and content for the most iconic casinos and operators across the globe.

Position Summary

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Update, enhance, and manage the company’s portfolio of financial models, performance metrics, and forecasting and budgeting tools.
• Record and monitor KPI’s; highlighting trends and analyzing causes of unexpected variances.
• Perform monthly review and analysis of Revenue, COS, OPEX, CAPEX and AEBITDA and key metrics for each financial close period.
• Lead pulse, forecast, budget and strategic/long range plan process including loading into consolidation software, creating reports, and distribution to major stakeholders.
• Liaise with key personnel within senior management team to establish strategic plans and develop comprehensive forecasts and budgets including presentation to senior management.
• Analyze complex financial information and reports to provide accurate and timely financial recommendations to management for decision making purposes.
• Understand and analyze key business drivers and communicate their impact on short and long-term financial plans.
• Perform ad hoc analysis to aid management in capital investment decisions
• Ability to comprehend and utilize company’s suite of business intelligence tools including ERP system, financial reporting software, and financial consolidation tools.
• Ability to interpret massive amounts of raw data and perform data manipulation and analysis on information acquired from multiple sources.
• Lead systems upgrades and drive continuous business process improvement in reporting with emphasis on business intelligence tools.
• Providing support and analysis to the business across the management of Inventory, Cash & Working Capital.
• Providing analysis on OPEX and CAPEX and return on investment.
• Participate with product management and sales in the development of financial models with focus on impact to gross margin (% and $) and AEBITDA.
• Seek opportunities for cost reduction and lead cross functional teams to enhance cost and process efficiencies.
• Support and drive an achievement culture in servicing internal stakeholders through expert advice and analysis
• Partner and collaborate with Finance Shared Services in setting up of local Navision system in the Asia business
• Assist with Asia team in handling adhoc financial-related, audit and tax requirements.

Qualifications

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Demonstrable track record of working with and servicing internal stakeholders
• Advanced knowledge of excel functions and ability to manipulate large amounts of raw data.
• Strong ability to analyze different financial scenarios, attention to detail, tackle complex problems and provide conclusions and solutions
• Financial accounting skills - sound understanding of basic accounting concepts and financial statements
• Results driven, well-motivated, independent and able to manage work under pressure
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills
• Confidence to drive challenging conversations and making difficult decisions
• Ability to see the big picture and equally dive into the details
• Team player
• Costing and Manufacturing knowledge preferred

Experience, Education and Qualification:

• 3-5 years in management reporting and analysis
• Bachelor’s degree in finance, business, accounting or related field or its equivalent.
• CPA or CA preferred

Working Conditions:

• The work conditions are representative and typical of similar jobs in comparable organizations

Workplace Health & Safety:

• Actively co-operate and comply with the company’s WHS Policy and Program to ensure own health and safety and the health and safety of others in the workplace
• Ensure compliance with safe work practices
• Ensure not to put self and others at risk
• Use and maintain equipment properly and ensure that the work area is free of hazards
• Report all incidents, injuries and near misses
• Report any hazard or accident to the supervisor or manager as soon as it becomes apparent
• Advise your manager if you do not believe you have the skills, training or equipment to safely perform your duties

(Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.)

Light & Wonder and its affiliates (collectively, L&W) are engaged in highly regulated gaming businesses. As a result, certain L&W employees may, among other things, be required to obtain a gaming or other license(s), undergo background investigations or security checks, or meet certain standards dictated by law, regulation, or contracts. In order to ensure L&W complies with its regulatory and contractual commitments, as a condition to hiring and continuing to employ its employees, L&W requires all of its employees to meet those requirements that are necessary to fulfill their individual roles. As a prerequisite to employment with L&W (to the extent permitted by law), you shall be asked to consent to L&W conducting a due diligence/background investigation on you.

This job description should not be interpreted as all-inclusive; it is intended to identify major responsibilities and requirements of the job. The employee in this position may be requested to perform other job-related tasks and responsibilities than those stated above.

L&W is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate against applicants due to race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, veteran status, or on the basis of disability or any other federal, state or local protected class. If you’d like more information about your equal employment opportunity rights as an applicant under the law, please click here: EEOC Poster.