Job Description
Position Overview
- We’re looking for a high-performing Finance & Back Office Manager to join our team—a fast-growing, skill-based mobile gaming platform.
- This is a mission-critical role that goes beyond finance.
- You’ll manage all financial operations while also owning key back-office systems and compliance workflows.
- As a lean, high-output team, we need someone who is proactive, analytical, systems-oriented, and deeply accountable.
- You’ll help ensure our finances are tight, our players are protected, and our operations are bulletproof.
Key Responsibilities
Financial Management:
- Own end-to-end financial operations including bookkeeping, budgeting, forecasting, and financial reporting.
- Prepare and present monthly/quarterly management accounts to leadership.
- Maintain clean, audit-ready financial records.
- Own investor and board-level financial reporting.
- Manage financial controls across spending, payroll, and treasury.
Compliance & Legal Coordination:
- Ensure compliance with global tax, regulatory, and financial reporting requirements.
- Liaise with legal partners to coordinate corporate filings, commercial contracts, and policy updates.
- Maintain up-to-date statutory filings across jurisdictions (e.g. Nigeria, UK, US, BVI).
- Support crypto-related compliance and reporting (e.g., token accounting, treasury tracking, crypto payments, wallet monitoring).
Fraud Monitoring & Player Risk:
- Audit player activity logs, payment flows, and withdrawal requests to detect anomalies and potential fraud.
- Flag suspicious behavior and work with product or compliance teams to tighten systems.
Back Office & Systems:
- Set up and maintain internal ops tools (e.g., HRS, payroll systems, accounting software).
- Assist with vendor onboarding, invoice validation, and payment workflows.
- Support hiring with onboarding systems, employment docs, and admin compliance.
Insights & Reporting:
- Analyze and report on business outcomes: revenue, user economics, cost of acquisition, payouts, etc.
- Build dashboards or reporting flows to keep leadership data-informed.
Ideal Candidate Profile
- Interested candidates should possess a Bachelor’s Degree
- Finance-First Operator: You’re deeply competent in finance but thrive in multidisciplinary environments.
- Crypto-Savvy: You’re familiar with how wallets, tokens, exchanges, and crypto payments work. You understand the basics of how crypto intersects with compliance, finance, and operational flows.
- Execution-Obsessed: You ship. You don’t wait for perfect conditions—you move and fix as needed.
- Detail-Oriented: Nothing slips past you. You love reconciling transactions down to the last cent.
- Systems Thinker: You enjoy making processes more efficient—automating, organizing, and documenting workflows.
- Integrity + Discretion: You’ll be working with sensitive financial and compliance data and must be trustworthy.
- Adaptable & Curious: You’re unafraid of areas you haven’t worked in—you figure it out, fast.
Experience & Skills:
- 4 - 6 years in finance, accounting, or ops roles (ideally in a startup or fintech/gaming environment).
- Strong experience with financial tools (e.g., QuickBooks, Xero, Excel/Sheets, etc.).
- Comfortable managing vendors, back-office tools, and legal coordination.
- Experience auditing logs, payments, or working with fraud detection is a bonus.
- Ability to write clearly, document systems, and communicate findings to leadership