Manager, Business Unit Finance

About the role

IGT is a global leader in gaming and entertainment, delivering innovative experiences across casino floors, mobile platforms, and beyond. The Manager, Business Unit Finance will partner with business unit leadership to drive financial planning, forecasting, performance management, and strategic decision-making across multiple regions and business segments. This role consolidates complex financial and operational data into accurate, timely, and actionable insights, enabling senior leadership to make informed decisions in a fast-paced, evolving environment.

Responsibilities

• Lead the consolidation of annual budgets, periodic forecasts, long-range plans, and management reporting across geographic regions and business segments.
• Coordinate planning timelines, assumptions, submissions, reviews, and deliverables with regional, segment, and functional finance teams.
• Ensure financial submissions are complete, accurate, consistent, and delivered within established deadlines.
• Analyze monthly and quarterly performance against budget, forecast, prior year, and other relevant benchmarks.
• Identify and communicate principal drivers of performance, including volume, pricing, product mix, installed base, market conditions, launch timing, and other gaming-related operational factors.
• Develop executive-ready reporting packages, dashboards, presentations, and financial analyses.
• Translate complex financial and operational information into clear conclusions and actionable recommendations.
• Partner with business unit, regional, commercial, product, operations, accounting, and corporate finance leaders to support business decisions.
• Provide financial insight and scenario analysis for new products, game launches, market opportunities, investments, and other strategic initiatives.
• Maintain and improve financial models used for forecasting, planning, performance measurement, and decision support.
• Support administration, development, and effective use of SAP BPC or a comparable planning and consolidation platform.
• Promote consistent financial definitions, reporting standards, assumptions, and processes across regions and segments.
• Identify opportunities to simplify, automate, and improve forecasting, consolidation, and management-reporting processes.
• Maintain appropriate financial controls, documentation, and data-quality standards.
• Provide guidance to finance colleagues and promote accountability, collaboration, knowledge sharing, and continuous improvement.
• Build productive relationships across organizational levels, functions, geographic regions, and business segments.
• Manage multiple high-priority deliverables and respond effectively to changing business needs and tight deadlines.
• Lead or support special projects and ad hoc financial analyses requested by senior leadership.

Qualifications

• Required:
  • Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business Administration, or a related field.
  • Approximately five or more years of progressive experience in financial planning and analysis, business unit finance, corporate finance, or a related field.
  • Demonstrated project leadership, cross-functional coordination, and the ability to influence stakeholders without direct authority.
  • Demonstrated experience consolidating financial information across multiple regions, business units, product lines, or operating segments.
  • Hands-on experience with SAP BPC or a comparable enterprise planning, budgeting, forecasting, and consolidation platform.
  • Working knowledge of the gaming industry, including relevant products, markets, customers, operating models, or regulatory considerations.
  • Strong capabilities in financial modeling, forecasting, variance analysis, and business partnering.
  • Advanced Microsoft Excel skills and experience preparing executive-level presentations and reports.
  • Ability to interpret large volumes of financial and operational information and identify the most important business implications.
  • Strong written, verbal, and presentation skills, with the ability to communicate complex financial matters clearly and concisely.
  • Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, global, and evolving environment.
  • Strong organization and project-management skills, with the ability to manage competing priorities and deadlines.
  • Sound judgment, attention to detail, and a strong commitment to financial accuracy and integrity.
• Preferred:
  • MBA, CPA, CMA, or another relevant advanced degree or professional certification.
  • Experience in a global or multinational gaming, technology, entertainment, or similarly complex organization.
  • Experience with SAP BPC, SAP Analytics Cloud, OneStream, Oracle Hyperion, Anaplan, Workday Adaptive Planning, or a comparable platform.
  • Experience with business intelligence, data visualization, or enterprise reporting tools.
  • Demonstrated success improving or automating planning, forecasting, consolidation, and reporting processes.
  • Experience supporting product launches, installed-base planning, unit-demand forecasting, or gaming operational models.

Keys to Success

• Building collaborative relationships
• Decision making
• Drive results
• Foster innovation
• Personal energy
• Self-leadership

Pay

The estimated starting compensation range for this role is $130,000 – $145,000 USD, based on a good-faith assessment at the time of posting. Actual compensation may vary.