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COO

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Sewell Wallis are delighted to be working with a high growth, award winning digital company who specialise within the gaming industry. Our client has been recognised for some highly impressive awards and offer a challenging and highly motivating place to work.

They are now looking to recruit a high performing COO to join their business to support the CEO in shaping the future of the business, leading the execution of the businesses long term business strategy. This operationally focused role will look at implementing new procedures to improve efficiency across all departments. Our client is looking for someone ambitious and motivational, who knows what excellent looks like and can drive the business forward to the next stage.

This exciting COO position will focus on the following duties:

-Be the key operational presence across the business who can influence and challenge effectively to ensure the business goals are met or exceeded
-Partner with the CEO to ensure all reporting across the company is done accurately and efficiently
-Lead, guide and direct the Operations team, developing and enhancing along the away to increase business performance
-In depth analysis across all business areas and management of KPI's
-Work closely with the finance departments to ensure the correct financial strategy is in place
-Initiate and review commercial plans including pricing strategies
-Manage cross-company projects and communications
-Ensure products and services meet contractual and commercial requirements

To be considered for this opportunity, our client is requesting that only people with a digital background apply due to the expert knowledge required to fulfil this challenging role. You will ideally have experience working within the video games industry.

This position is based in Leeds and although our client is offering a hybrid way of working between home and the office, it's does require someone who either lives locally, or is happy to commute into Leeds on a weekly basis. Aside from the industry experience, you will have a strong personality with the ability to inspire employees, alongside communicating confidently to the board of directors.

If you are interested in hearing more details then please get in touch with Lucy Regan or Emma Dugdale for a confidential discussion.

To apply please send your CV, quoting our reference and specifying which website you saw this position advertised on. Due to the high volume of applications please accept that if we have not responded to your application within seven days, your application has not been successful.

Sewell Wallis is a specialist recruitment company with a vast amount of experience in our industry we offer permanent, temporary and interim recruitment support for accounting and finance, human resources and business support positions. We recruit at all levels within finance from Purchase Ledger Administrator and Credit Controller level through to Financial Controller and Director positions. With offices in Sheffield and Leeds, we are well situated to cover all of South Yorkshire, West Yorkshire and Manchester. Please visit our website for more information on accountancy and finance jobs and human resources or business support positions.

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