Your Impact:

  • Lead a 25+ person, multi-location finance function across Financial Reporting, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Treasury and Payroll, creating clear accountability and ownership through the finance leadership team.
  • Assess and evolve the finance operating model, ensuring organisational structure, process ownership, systems, controls and ways of working can scale with the business and wider Group requirements.
  • Lead end-to-end redesign and optimisation of core finance processes, identifying opportunities to standardise, simplify and automate workflows while reducing manual intervention, operational risk and dependency on individual knowledge.
  • Identify and drive opportunities to improve finance systems and automation, ensuring solutions are scalable and deliver measurable improvements in process efficiency, controls and data quality.
  • Establish clear process ownership, SLAs, controls and KPIs across finance and use data to identify performance gaps, bottlenecks and opportunities for continuous improvement.
  • Lead through managers and team leads, building their capability and empowering them to take ownership of their functions.
  • Take a hands-on role in complex operational and technical issues where required, while ensuring solutions are subsequently embedded into scalable processes rather than remaining dependent on individual intervention.
  • Lead the finance function through post-acquisition integration, balancing the requirements of Legend and Group Finance and driving alignment across reporting, controls, systems, data and ways of working.
  • Make clear prioritisation and resource allocation decisions across BAU delivery and transformation initiatives, ensuring critical activities remain stable while progressing the highest-value improvements.
  • Build trusted relationships with senior stakeholders across Legend and the wider Group, confidently challenging where appropriate and translating complex financial or operational issues into clear business implications and decisions.

    • What You'll Bring:

  • ACA/ICAS/ACCA qualification with significant post-qualified experience in senior finance leadership roles.
  • Demonstrable experience leading a sizeable, multi-functional Finance Operations or Financial Control organisation, ideally across multiple locations and jurisdictions.
     
  • Proven experience leading through managers and functional leads, with evidence of building leadership capability and creating organisations that can operate effectively without excessive dependency on you personally.
     
  • Deep operational knowledge across several core finance disciplines such as Financial Reporting, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Treasury and Payroll, with the ability to challenge processes and diagnose complex operational issues.
     
  • A strong track record of end-to-end finance process transformation, with tangible examples of redesigning and standardising workflows, strengthening controls and using automation or systems to deliver measurable improvements.
     
  • Strong finance systems capability and experience translating operational requirements into effective systems design. ERP implementation or significant transformation experience, including Workday, would be advantageous.
     
  • Experience designing scalable finance operating models, including clear process ownership, governance, controls, SLAs, KPIs and appropriate organisational structures.
     
  • Experience leading teams through significant organisational change, ideally including acquisition integration or working within a larger parent/group finance structure.
     
  • Strong performance management capability, with evidence of setting high standards and providing direct feedback while maintaining team engagement.
     
  • A hands-on leadership style and the technical credibility to get into the detail when necessary, combined with the judgement to delegate effectively and avoid becoming an operational bottleneck.
     
  • Strong prioritisation and decision-making skills, with experience balancing BAU delivery, transformation programmes and competing senior stakeholder demands in a fast-moving environment.
     
  • Excellent stakeholder management skills, with the confidence to influence and challenge senior leaders by translating financial and operational complexity into clear commercial implications.
     
  • Resilience and genuine motivation to operate in a changing, ambiguous environment where the opportunity is to build and transform rather than inherit a settled BAU function.

    Experience within a technology scale-up, gaming business or similarly fast-moving international environment would be advantageous but is not essential.

    • The Process:

  • 1st: Initial interview with Talent Partner (45 minutes via Zoom)
  • 2nd: Interview with the Finance Director and Senior People Partner (60 minutes via Zoom)
  • 3rd: Take-home task and presentation with the Finance Director, Head of FP&A and Executive Director (60 minutes via Zoom or in our London office)

    • Why Legend?

  • Super smart colleagues to work alongside and learn from.
  • Engaging development opportunities at all levels.
  • Tailored flexibility for your work-life balance.
  • Annual discretionary bonus to reward your efforts.
  • Paid annual leave PLUS a well-deserved break to recharge your batteries during the festive season! Our offices are closed between Christmas and New Year's, allowing you to enjoy downtime without dipping into your annual allowance.
  • Long term incentive plan so we can all share in the growth and success of Legend.
  • Exciting global Legend events, where we unite in person to ignite our shared passion and unveil the exciting strategies for the year ahead!
    • Unlock your full potential by joining the Legend team. To support you on this journey, we provide an extensive array of benefits and perks, as outlined in our global offerings above. For country specific benefits please reach out to your talent partner.