Head of Internal Controls and Assurance

Job title: Head of Internal Controls and Assurance

Company Description

About Playtech

Founded in 1999, the company has a premium listing on the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange and is focused on regulated and regulating markets across its B2B business. By leveraging its proprietary technology, Playtech delivers innovative products and services to ensure a safe, engaging and entertaining gaming experience.

As the gaming industry's leading technology company, it combines business intelligence-driven software, services, content, and platform technology to drive excellence and innovation across the sector. Read more about who we are and what we do here: www.playtechpeople.com and www.playtech.com

Here at Playtech, we genuinely believe that people are our biggest asset. Diverse thoughts, experiences, and individual characteristics enrich our work environment and lead to better business decisions. Embracing differences and maintaining transparency in our processes is the core of Playtech's overall commitment to responsible business practices.

Ready to level up your career?

We are looking for an accomplished Head of Internal Controls and Assurance to shape and strengthen our global assurance and internal control agenda. This is a high-impact leadership role for someone who can build sustainable, risk-based frameworks, lead complex control transformation and turn detailed findings into clear, balanced reporting for senior management and Board-level audiences.

You will bring strong technical depth together with commercial judgement, a hands-on delivery mindset and the influence to embed effective controls across a complex, changing and internationally distributed business.

Job Description

Your Influential Mission: You Will…

• Develop and maintain Playtech’s assurance and internal control strategy, framework and operating model.
• Lead financial, operational and technology control transformation programmes, including preparation for evolving governance, regulatory and reporting requirements.
• Oversee the design, implementation and ongoing operation of a robust financial reporting control framework with clear ownership, documentation, evidence and management accountability.
• Establish proportionate, risk-based scoping, testing, remediation, certification and ongoing monitoring processes.
• Prepare clear, accurate and concise draft reporting on control effectiveness for senior management and Board-level audiences.
• Drive timely remediation of control deficiencies and sustainable improvements to underlying processes.
• Partner with Finance, Technology, Internal Audit, Risk, external audit and business leaders to align assurance activity and minimise duplication.
• Strengthen controls over financial reporting, consolidation, access management, segregation of duties, system-generated reports and third-party assurance.
• Identify opportunities to simplify, standardise, centralise and automate controls while maintaining appropriate assurance.
• Use AI, data analytics and automation to enhance processes, improve control effectiveness and strengthen assurance outcomes.
• Build, lead and develop a high-performing assurance team with clear accountability and a strong culture of continuous improvement.

Qualifications

• Components for Success: You…

• Bring significant senior-level experience in assurance, internal controls, external audit, financial controls or a closely related discipline within a large, complex organisation.

• Have designed, implemented or transformed enterprise-wide control frameworks and can demonstrate sustained improvements in control maturity.

• Understand financial reporting control frameworks, including entity-level controls, process and risk scoping, control documentation, management certification and evidence standards.

• Have led risk-based scoping, control design, operating-effectiveness testing, deficiency evaluation, remediation and ongoing monitoring.

• Bring a strong understanding of financial reporting, consolidation, close processes and complex accounting judgements.

• Have practical experience of General IT Controls, access governance, segregation of duties and assurance over system-generated information.

• Have provided assurance over major systems or finance transformation programmes.

• Build credibility with senior stakeholders and work effectively across Finance, Technology, Risk, Internal Audit and external audit.

• Balance assurance requirements with proportionality, cost and operational practicality, applying sound judgement in complex or ambiguous situations.

• Hold a recognised professional accounting qualification such as ACA, ACCA, CPA or equivalent, supported by degree-level education or equivalent professional experience.

• You’ll Get Extra Points for…

• Experience in a listed or multinational organisation.

• Experience supporting major regulatory change or a significant financial control maturity and readiness programme.

• Big Four or equivalent external audit experience.

• Experience establishing centres of excellence or centralised assurance activities.

• Experience developing or implementing control technology, data analytics or workflow solutions.

• Experience identifying and applying AI-enabled solutions to improve controls, assurance activity, process efficiency and insight generation.

• Exposure to shared services, complex third-party environments or international operating models.

• Thrive in a culture that values…

• Pragmatic governance that strengthens the business without creating unnecessary bureaucracy.

• Open collaboration across disciplines, geographies and seniority levels.

• Clear accountability, balanced challenge and decisions grounded in evidence.

• Curiosity about technology, automation and better ways of working.

• Leadership that develops capable, engaged teams and future leaders.

• Additional Information

• Risk, Internal Audit and Assurance

• Join a team with a broad view across Playtech’s global business and a clear mandate to strengthen governance, controls and assurance. You will work closely with senior leaders and specialist partners to shape a sustainable control environment, support major change and help the organisation make confident, well-informed decisions.

• Playtech is an equal opportunities employer. Our mission is to welcome everyone and create inclusive teams. We celebrate differences and encourage everyone to join us and be themselves at work.