Senior Director of Finance, Gaming Operations

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

Role Responsibility:

• Effective business partnering - Development of trusted relationships with cross-functional team members, effectively influencing organizational decisions.
• Provide commercial advice into the development, deployment and execution of the commercial strategy.
• Identify key business drivers and provide analysis of variances from targeted results along with recommendations to close any gaps. Identify trends in performance and implement recommended actions to improve performance in consultation with the Americas leadership team.
• Active management of core cash flow drivers (EBIT, inventory, payables, receivables, and capex) and identification of opportunities to bridge gap to Budget commitments.
• Owner of the Gaming Operations Budget and forecast processes. Ensure that outputs are linked to key drivers and ensuring that all assumptions are visible and agreed upon.
• Prepare quarterly, annual and 3-year strategic budget presentations and assist in the cascading down of key initiatives.
• NPV development and analysis of new product launches, external licensing considerations, sales proposals, promotional programs, and other investment opportunities. Preparation of business cases, inclusive of identification of business opportunities and assess of commercial viability, including consideration of market, product, customer, and talent strategy and alignment.
• Partner with marketing, sales, and other key stakeholders to create effective product pricing strategies in the marketplace taking into consideration all relevant criteria (market size, floor share, product cost, volume, customer tier, expected returns, competitor pricing, product tier, etc.)
• Partners with the S&OP team to ensure proper alignment for all key products and components; forecast and inventory.
• Conduct, understand, and analyze potential customer deals with attention to key financial metrics (Margin $, Margin %, RPD, ASP, Ship Share, ROIC, etc.).
• End-of-life analysis for cabinets and hardware (Net Book Value exposure analysis, Churn metrics, etc.).
• Assist in the preparation of board-of-directors and executive leadership presentation materials and provide support for the company’s quarterly reporting requirements.
• Adopts an enterprise-wide perspective, making decisions that balance enterprise objectives with individual goals.
• Understand and actively manage direct costs (BOM, R&M, Refurb, Spare Parts, Royalties, etc.) as well as operating expenses.
• Ability to impact ideas, opinions, and influence actions; adapting and modifying your personal style when you become aware of the effect you are having on others.
• Partners with the accounting team to ensure an accurate and on-time month-end close process for the recurring revenue line-of-business.
• Prepare monthly management reports, analysis and communication of month-end results, and recommendation of corresponding actions to key stakeholders.
• Recruit, train, develop, lead, mentor, and motivate team members and ensure that the safety, welfare and discipline of the team is in line with the published core competencies of Light and Wonder.

Qualifications

• Requires an undergraduate degree in finance, accounting, economics or similar. MBA or CPA preferred.
• Minimum of 7 years finance/accounting experience, with three or more years in a supervisory role.
• Must possess a strong ability to synthesize complex or diverse information.
• Experience handling, cleansing and manipulating large datasets into meaningful reports and dashboards desired.
• Can communicate effectively both in written and verbal forms.
• Requires advanced use of Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint.  Experience with dashboarding tools preferred.

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