Director - Head of Finance and Company Secretary

Director - Head of Finance and Company Secretary

At Aristocrat, we pride ourselves on our world-class financial governance and innovative business practices. As the Director - Head of Finance, you will play a pivotal role in ensuring our financial integrity and strategic growth. You will be responsible for leading our Finance function in India, collaborating with leadership, external consultants, and global partners to deliver flawless financial management and compliance. This is an outstanding opportunity to join a high-reaching team and make a significant impact on our organization!

What You'll Do

• Lead a high-performance team, driving innovative projects, continuous improvement, and a culture of excellence.
• Lead and further develop the India Finance Shared Services capability, partnering with global finance leaders to support the continued scaling, standardization, and optimization of finance processes and service delivery.
• Drive organizational effectiveness, talent development, service excellence, process harmonization, and the transition of appropriate finance activities into the shared services model.
• Lead the financial planning and analysis, ensuring accurate forecasting of operating and capital expenditures across all business functions.
• Perform variance analysis and provide key insights to business plans in collaboration with local and global collaborators.
• Continuously improve forecasting processes to increase commercial efficiencies.
• Ensure strong financial governance, including segregation of duties, financial authority limits, and policies.
• Collaborate closely with outsourced business partners to review results, records, automation, and resource planning.
• Ensure timely vendor payments and related compliances, intercompany reconciliations, and controls.
• Finalize books of accounts per group and statutory requirements, and ensure accurate assets verification and register updates.
• Coordinate statutory and tax audits, ensuring accurate and timely submission to the Group and authorities.
• Collaborate with the global tax team for review and update of India tax reports, ensuring timely completion of tax assessments.
• Ensure compliance with GST, Customs, and other indirect tax regulations.
• Coordinate payroll processes, ensuring timely deposit of employee statutory dues and taxes.
• Ensure adequate working capital and lead banking relationships for statutory payments.
• Conduct board and general meetings, ensure submission of regulatory returns, and maintain statutory registers.
• Handle legal matters, including review of commercial contracts and compliance with modern slavery and privacy laws.
• Promote team advancement, participation, and resource organization to secure an effective finance team.
• Coordinate the transformation of financial reporting processes to enable a scalable, data-driven finance function.
• Identify and implement opportunities to improve efficiency and controls through automation (e.g., workflow optimization, reporting enablement, and practical use of AI-assisted tools), and encourage team capability and curiosity in emerging productivity technologies.

What We're Looking For

• Demonstrated experience establishing, scaling, or leading finance teams or offshore finance operations within a complex multinational environment.
• High business partnership skills.
• Qualified Chartered Accountant with 15+ years of relevant job experience.
• Outstanding analytical and problem-solving abilities, combined with the capacity to handle several projects simultaneously and adhere to deadlines.
• Solid grasp of accounting concepts, outstanding communication abilities, and the capability to impact individuals across all levels.
• Shown people leader, with a track record of developing high-performing teams.
• Advanced MS-Excel skills and proficiency in MS-Word, PowerPoint, Concur, and Tally ERP.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Outstanding ability to adapt, prioritize, and multi-task with strategic, analytical, and planning skills.

Join us at Aristocrat and be part of a team that is determined to deliver outstanding outcomes and make a world-class impact on the gaming industry!

Why Aristocrat?

Aristocrat is a world leader in gaming content and technology, and a top-tier publisher of free-to-play mobile games. We deliver great performance for our B2B customers and bring joy to the lives of the millions of people who love to play our casino and mobile games. And while we focus on fun, we never forget our responsibilities. We strive to lead the way in responsible gameplay, and to lift the bar in company governance, employee wellbeing and sustainability. We’re a diverse business united by shared values and an inspiring mission to bring joy to life through the power of play.

We aim to create an environment where individual differences are valued, and all employees have the opportunity to realize their potential. We welcome and encourage applications from all people regardless of age, gender, race, ethnicity, cultural background, disability status or LGBTQ+ identity. EEO M/F/D/V

• World Leader in Gaming Entertainment

• Robust benefits package

• Global career opportunities

Our Values

• All about the Player

• Talent Unleashed

• Collective Brilliance

• Good Business Good Citizen

Travel Expectations

None

Additional Information

At this time, we are unable to sponsor work visas for this position. Candidates must be authorized to work in the job posting location for this position on a full-time basis without the need for current or future visa sponsorship.

Experience Level

Executive Level