Job Description for Senior Finance Manager

What We Are Looking For:

- Chartered Accountant, MBA Finance or Commerce graduate with 10 to 14 years of post-qualification experience

- Prior ownership of multi-country payroll in at least three jurisdictions

- Services industry background is a must

- End-to-end AP ownership with coding discipline in a multi-entity environment

- Track record of identifying and implementing operational improvements in finance processes

- Experience producing or maintaining a rolling cash flow model

- Comfort coordinating with external tax advisors across multiple jurisdictions

- Experience with ERP systems and reconciliation discipline

- Strong written and verbal communication you will represent GlobalStep externally

Also Valuable:

- Experience with client-facing invoicing in a professional services context

- Exposure to Sage or ERP remediation projects

- Demonstrable use of AI tools in reconciliations, invoice processing, or exception analysis

Who Will Thrive Here:

This role is for an operator who combines accounting discipline and who is comfortable coordinating financial work across functions, entities, and jurisdictions:

- Balanced accounting discipline. You are genuinely strong across AP, payroll, and reconciliations not dominant in one and passing in the rest.

- Coordination and orchestration. You can manage external advisors across six jurisdictions, maintain a disciplined compliance calendar, and operate as the connective tissue between our internal data and external technical expertise.

- Cash flow discipline. You can maintain a 13-week cash flow model with documented assumptions, accurate inputs, and a discipline that lets the Director of Finance and the CEO act on the numbers with confidence.

- Change leadership. You have rebuilt a transactional process from the ground up before, and you know it is about people more than it is about systems.

- AI fluency. You use AI actively for reconciliation exception analysis, for vendor correspondence, for process automation and you treat it as a force multiplier.

- Growth orientation. You want to expand your scope over time, not just execute today's. The finance function at GlobalStep is being built; the right candidate will grow with it.

What We Offer:

- Scope: A senior role with substantial breadth transactional operations, cash flow modelling, tax coordination, and intercompany execution. Direct reporting to the Director of Finance with regular CEO visibility.

- Impact: You will not be one of many. This is a build role you will define how the operational engine of our finance function operates and how it evolves.

- Culture: Informal, family-oriented, and direct. Low bureaucracy. High expectations. Decisions get made and executed.

- Industry: The video games industry is one of the most creative, technically demanding, and globally connected industries in the world. Our clients are the studios and publishers you have heard of.

What You Will Own:

- Hands on ownership in accounts payable: End-to-end AP operations across every entity. Three-way matching mandatory. Maintain AP coding accuracy as the foundation of every downstream management report by Line of Service, by Location, by account, and by project.

- DPO discipline. Optimize payment timing to vendors deliberately, evaluate early-payment discount economics, and report DPO as a named monthly KPI.

- Multi-country payroll. Execute payroll across India, Canada, the US, the UK, Portugal, and Romania. Statutory compliance in every jurisdiction.

- Multi-entity closings and reconciliations or Multi country finance operations.

- Coordination with auditors, tax consultants, or compliance advisors: Coordinate tax compliance across all six jurisdictions through our external advisors. Maintain the consolidated compliance calendar, ensure documentation flows on time, track filings, and surface issues to the Director of Finance.

- 13-week cash flow model. Produce and maintain the 13-week rolling cash flow model on a weekly cadence. The Director of Finance reviews it weekly; you produce it and stand behind the numbers.

- Intercompany settlements. Execute intercompany settlements based on direction from the Director of Finance. Book entries, execute transfers, and reconcile balances.

- Banking operations. Own day-to-day banking operations across all geographies payments, transfers, reconciliations, routine queries.

- Vendor management and brand representation. You are the operational face of GlobalStep to every vendor in every country. Onboarding, dispute resolution, payment posture all of it.

- SOPs and process change. Standardize operating procedures across all entities. Drive automation across the transactional estate. Change the things that are broken.

About GlobalStep:

GlobalStep is a creative and technical services company to the video games industry. We work with the world's leading game studios and publishers from delivery centers in India, Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, Romania, and Portugal. We are approximately 1,200 people across six countries, operating through thirteen legal entities, and serving more than one hundred paying clients.

We are privately held and founder-led. We run lean, move fast, and care deeply about the craft of the work we do. We are now building a stronger Finance function to support the next phase of our growth and this role is the operational anchor of that function.