Financial Controller, Head of Accounting

Опис: Devoted Studios is a globally remote game development company specializing in Co-development, Porting, and End-to-End Art Production for the global gaming industry.

We collaborate across time zones to support projects on all major platforms, engines and styles — from AAA titles to emerging technologies. Our team includes world-class talents who bring deep expertise in external development, pipeline optimization, and creative problem-solving. Whether it’s porting games to new systems, enhancing gameplay features, or crafting stunning visuals, Devoted Studios operates as a trusted, flexible extension of our partners' internal teams. We are proud to be the development partner of choice for industry leaders such as:

• Epic
• Xbox
• Meta
• Obsidian Entertainment
• Riot
• Gearbox Software

We are hiring a Financial Controller, Head of Accounting to own the company’s core controllership function.

This is a narrow, high-accountability controllership role. We want a strong finance operator with deep competence in controllership, financial close, financial and management accounting, reporting, and finance systems.

For matters outside the Controller’s core body of knowledge — such as country-specific tax, local statutory accounting, specialist compliance matters, ERP implementation support, or niche technical issues — the expectation is not that the Controller performs all of that work personally. The expectation is that the Controller remains accountable for the result by selecting, coordinating, and project-managing external specialists effectively, while leading the work to the results.

The right candidate is both a strong subject-matter professional in core finance and an effective manager of complex workstreams involving internal stakeholders and outsourced advisors.

Вимоги:

• Preferred qualifications
  • CPA, ACCA, or equivalent professional qualification (preferred, but not a requirement).
  • A Big 4 or comparable audit background is strongly preferred.
  • Experience supporting international operations across multiple jurisdictions.
  • Experience with intercompany accounting, payroll accounting, and consolidation.
  • Experience partnering with FP&A on management reporting and BI outputs.
• What success looks like
• In this role, success means:
  • a disciplined, predictable monthly close with high-quality, GAAP-compliant financial reporting;
  • strong control over project accounting and revenue recognition;
  • effective use of MS Excel and Dynamics 365 Business Central as core finance platforms;
  • high-quality coordination of external specialists where needed with timely tax compliance;
  • and an accounting department that is well organized, well documented, and is scalable.

Обов’язки:

Controllership and financial close

• Lead the monthly, quarterly, and year-end close across multiple legal entities.
• Own general ledger integrity, balance sheet reconciliations, accruals, deferrals, foreign exchange accounting, and close documentation.
• Maintain a well-structured chart of accounts, accounting policies, and supporting schedules.
• Deliver timely, accurate, audit-ready financial information to the CFO.
• Identify material risks, unusual transactions, accounting issues, and control gaps proactively and solve them.
• Implement effective internal controls over financial reporting

Revenue recognition and project accounting

• Oversee management accounting, work-in-progress, and revenue recognition for a project-based services business.
• Apply appropriate revenue recognition methodology under IFRS 15 and corresponding US GAAP principles where relevant.
• Coordinate closely with delivery and FP&A to ensure project economics are reflected accurately in the accounting records.
• Improve the quality of project-level margin reporting, billing logic, and financial visibility.

Accounts receivable, accounts payable, cash, and payroll accounting

• Oversee billing, collections, aged receivables, vendor payables, payment controls, and treasury routines.
• Review and approve daily bank reconciliations, payment journals.
• Act as finance process owner for payroll accounting and ensure payroll journals, taxes, benefits, withholdings, and allocations are recorded accurately.
• Support year-end payroll and contractor reporting requirements in coordination with internal and external providers.

Intercompany, fixed assets, and consolidation support

• Oversee group consolidation procedures, intercompany accounting, reconciliations, eliminations, and supporting schedules.
• Maintain fixed asset accounting and depreciation records, accounting for tax differences due to tax and GAAP rules.

Systems ownership and process design

• Serve as the finance functional owner for Quickbooks (the first phase) and Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central (the second phase).
• Help lead finance process design, implementation, and continuous improvement in Business Central and related systems.
• Maintain finance master data, policy documentation, and workflows documentation.
• Partner with external ERP consultants, implementation partners, and internal stakeholders to resolve system and process issues effectively.
• Drive automation and standardization across close, reporting, billing, payroll accounting, and project accounting.

External tax compliance advisor management

• Coordinate the work of external accounting, tax, payroll, and audit providers across jurisdictions. Support audits and external reviews.
• Own timelines, deliverables, escalation, and quality control for outsourced workstreams.
• Act as the company’s accountable finance lead even where specialized technical work is delegated externally.
• Distinguish clearly between matters that should be handled internally as core controllership work and matters that should be referred to specialist advisors.

Business support

• Partner with FP&A to improve management reporting, accounting dimensions, and data quality.
• Partner with FP&A to support Power BI or similar reporting outputs for financial and operating KPIs.

Team leadership

• Lead, coach, and manage a small accounting team and a network of tax, audit, and implementation partners.
• Set clear expectations for accuracy, discipline, ownership, and timeliness.
• Help build a finance culture centered on rigor, accountability, and continuous improvement.

Benefits

Why Join Us?

We offer:

• Strong and enthusiastic team — you will have the opportunity for knowledge sharing, learning, and professional self-development.
• Direct collaboration with the Finance Director.
• Interesting and challenging tasks — solve diverse and challenging issues of a growing organization.
• Convenient working conditions — remote work and flexible hours
• А chance to work in a highly professional and dynamic team working in an International Game Production company, attractive remuneration package, and opportunities to develop professionally.

This is a remote, full-time contractor position