Senior Finance Manager

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.

Why This Role Is Different

Most senior finance roles in Pune are narrow - you own AP, or you own payroll, or you own collections, or you own one slice of the books. This one is broad. You will own the transactional engine of the finance function - AP, AR, payroll across six countries, vendor management, reconciliations, and client invoicing - alongside the 13-week cash flow model that the Director of Finance and CEO rely on weekly. You will coordinate tax compliance across all six jurisdictions through our external advisors. You will execute intercompany settlements that keep the group moving. You will partner directly with the Director of Finance on the work that defines how this finance function performs.

The accuracy of our AP coding determines the integrity of our profitability views by service line and by location - which is how this business is run. Our collections discipline shapes our DSO and the working capital we have available to deploy. Our client invoicing shapes both how quickly clients pay us and the quality of the commercial relationship while doing so. Our cash flow model shapes the capital decisions we make every month. This is a role where process discipline meets commercial instinct meets analytical rigor - and where doing the job well requires all three.

It is also a role designed for someone who wants to grow. The current scope is broad; the path forward is unbounded by the role title.

What You Will Own

• Hands on ownership in accounts payable 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.

• Hands on ownership in accounts receivable : Drive collections in line with contractual payment terms. Collections in a services business is a relationship discipline - partner with Client Services and the customer relationship leaders to keep cash flowing without damaging relationships.

• Client invoices and collections follow up : Produce all client-facing invoices. Every invoice is a client deliverable - accurate, complete, professionally presented, and accompanied by the supporting documentation clients need to process payment efficiently.

• Timesheet-based billing : Own the monthly control that ties paid timesheets to billed timesheets. Unreconciled hours are either revenue leakage or margin misstatement - neither is acceptable.

• Multi-country payrol : 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

• Co ordination 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.

What We Are Looking For

• Chartered Accountant, CA Inter, or Commerce graduate with 10 to 12 years of post-qualification experience

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

• 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 with commercial instinct, and who is comfortable coordinating financial work across functions, entities, and jurisdictions:

• Balanced accounting discipline. You are genuinely strong across AP, AR, 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.

• Client-facing savvy. You can write a client-facing email that collects a payment without damaging the relationship. You treat invoicing and collections as commercial conversations, not administrative tasks.

• 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.