Let’s start with the role

The Senior Financial Controls Analyst is a key driver in maintaining the integrity and effectiveness of Kaizen Gaming's internal control environment. In this senior-level capacity, you will take a lead role in the design, implementation, and ongoing monitoring of financial controls and governance policies. This role requires a sophisticated understanding of risk mitigation and the ability to operate independently within a stand-alone governance function. You will serve as a technical anchor for the Financial Controls team, ensuring that our processes remain robust and scalable as the company expands into new international markets and business verticals.

• Drive Policy Evolution: Lead the drafting, updating, and communication of financial governance policies across all finance divisions, ensuring they meet both corporate standards and localized regulatory needs;
• Orchestrate the Finance Division Playbook: Orchestrate the periodic mapping and review of the Finance Playbook, ensuring it remains the accurate "single source of truth" for all financial operations and global processes;
• Roadmap Integration: Align the schedule of process reviews and control updates with broader team objectives and KPIs, ensuring high-risk areas are prioritized effectively;
• Process Design: Develop and maintain advanced process narratives, flowcharts, and control matrices for complex financial cycles (e.g., Revenue, Payments, Treasury);

• Execution & Quality Assurance: Lead the testing of key financial controls (design and operational effectiveness) while providing guidance and quality reviews for work performed by other team members;
• Technical Mentorship: Serve as a point of escalation and a mentor for Financial Controls team members, sharing expertise in risk identification and control documentation to elevate team performance;
• Remediation Leadership: Collaborate with process owners to develop remediation plans for control deficiencies, monitoring their timely completion and performing rigorous re-testing;

• Strategic Liaison: Act as the primary contact for internal and external auditors, providing high-level explanations of financial controls and managing the evidence-gathering process;
• Performance Reporting: Prepare reports on the status of the control environment and progress against remediation KPIs for the Financial Controls Manager and Finance Management Team;
• Advisory & Expansion: Provide expert guidance to other departments on internal control best practices and lead the integration of financial controls for new international entities.

What you’ll bring:

We are seeking a proactive leader who balances technical precision with high-level emotional intelligence. You should be a "guardian" who doesn't just flag problems but architect solutions. Your ability to influence stakeholders and simplify complex governance concepts is key to success in this role.

• Bachelor's or Master’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration, or a related field;
• 5-6+ years of progressive experience in internal controls, audit (Big 4 experience is highly valued), or a dedicated Governance role;
• Strong practical application of internal control frameworks (e.g., COSO);
• Proven ability to manage complex projects and deadlines while simultaneously supporting the development of less experienced colleagues;
• Expert-level skills in creating process maps, flowcharts, and control matrices; experience with ERP systems (e.g., SAP, Microsoft Business Central) is required;
• High attention to detail with the ability to translate data into actionable insights that meet team KPIs;
• A professional certification is strongly preferred (e.g. CIA – Certified Internal Auditor) and deep familiarity with IFRS and complex financial cycles (Revenue, Treasury, Payroll) would be nice to have;
• Exceptional English communication skills, with the ability to present to senior management and influence organizational change.

Kaizen Gaming Perks

• 🕑 Hybrid way of working
• 🏃 A buddy will support you with your onboarding
• 💸 Competitive pay and bonus scheme
• 👩‍⚕️ Private health insurance for you and your family
• 💰 Monthly meal allowance
• 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Family Support 
• ⭐Developmental 360° feedback framework
• 📚 Unlimited access to Udemy & continuous training
• #LI-Hybrid
• #LI-DG1

Required:

• 3+ in Windows desktop application development using Windows App SDK, WinUI (or similar), C#, XAML — and ideally additional experience with native Windows code (C++, Win32/WinRT/COM).
• Deep understanding of Windows application architecture, including interop between managed code (.NET) and native code.
• Proven track record of designing, building, and shipping production-quality desktop applications, with an emphasis on reliability, performance, scalability, and maintainability.
• Strong experience with accessibility APIs on Windows (e.g. Microsoft UI Automation or similar), and a dedication to building accessible and inclusive software.
• Excellent software engineering fundamentals: OOP, design patterns, data structures, algorithms, memory management, multi-threading or asynchronous programming (where relevant).
• Experience leading technical design, mentoring other engineers, conducting code reviews, and making architecture-level decisions.
• Strong communication skills; ability to articulate tradeoffs, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and drive consensus.
• A user-centric mindset: focus on building polished, intuitive, and accessible experiences for end users.

Preferred / Bonus:

• Experience with writing automated tests for UI — unit tests, integration tests, UI automation tests; familiarity with relevant testing frameworks.
• Experience with performance optimization for desktop apps (memory usage, startup time, rendering performance, high-DPI support, responsiveness under load).
• Experience with localization/globalization, right-to-left UI support, internationalization, accessibility for multiple regions.
• Familiarity with telemetry, analytics, crash reporting, logging, and error monitoring in desktop applications.
• Previous experience in shaping CI/CD workflows, release pipelines, and deployment strategies for desktop applications.
• Demonstrated ability to take ownership of feature areas or modules and drive them long-term, including maintenance, refactoring, and technical debt management.

What we offer

• A high-impact role: you will define architecture, shape the future of our Windows product, and directly influence what millions of users see and experience.
• A collaborative, flat-structure engineering culture — you are not just a coder, but a builder and a decision-maker.
• Opportunities to lead — mentor others, steer technical direction, and grow into broader technical leadership (e.g. Tech Lead, Architect).
• Flexibility, autonomy, and responsibility: you define how to solve problems, own features end-to-end, and contribute to long-term product vision.
• A purpose-driven mission: building software that’s reliable, accessible, and user-centered — making a real difference for people.                  

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What We Do: AI Service Management (AISM):

Aisera offers the world's first AI-driven service experience solution that automates operations and support for IT, Sales and customer service, making businesses and customers successful by offering consumer-like self-service resolutions to users. Aisera fast tracks the digital transformation journey with user and service behavioral intelligence that drives end-to-end automation of tasks, actions, and business processes. Aisera is a top-tier, VC-funded startup headquartered in Palo Alto, Calif. and a strategic partner with AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, ServiceNow and Salesforce.

Aisera has received numerous recognitions, including the following: Forbes AI50; CNBC Upstart 100 Top Startup; Gartner Cool Vendor; Red Herring Top 100 Global Innovator; CIO Innovation Startup Award; CIO Review Top ITSM Solution; Aragon Research Hot Vendor; TiE50 Startup Award; and Silicon Review 50 Most Admired Companies.

The Role: 

Lead AI/ML research and development initiatives while growing as a software engineer. Drive machine learning innovation with strong research acumen while building production-ready ML systems. Partner with AI Systems Tech Lead for technical mentorship and system integration.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead ML research, experimentation, and development from concept to deployment
• Design and implement novel ML/AI approaches, staying current with cutting-edge research and methodologies
• Architect ML pipelines, training infrastructure, and model evaluation frameworks
• Guide ML engineering decisions including model selection, feature engineering, and optimization strategies
• Translate academic insights into practical applications
• Mentor junior ML engineers and establish ML best practices across the team
• Work closely with AI Systems Tech Leads to ensure delivery of optimized AI systems and services to production
• Enforce data governance and privacy: Follow processes and implement methods that ensure data governance, privacy, and security. 
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams: Work closely with product managers, and other stakeholders to ensure the AI/ML solutions align with the organization's goals and objectives.
• Communicate effectively: Clearly document your work and effectively communicate your findings, insights, and recommendations to both technical and non-technical stakeholders, fostering a collaborative and informed environment.

Required Expertise:

• 5+ years in ML engineering with demonstrated advanced development or research capabilities (innovative projects, publications, theses)
• Advanced degree in AI/ML or related subjects with relevant undergraduate degree
• Deep understanding of ML fundamentals: deep learning, statistical modeling, optimization, and evaluation methodologies
• Strong Python skills with ML libraries (PyTorch, TensorFlow, scikit-learn, Hugging Face)
• Experience with ML experiment tracking, model versioning, and reproducible research practices
• Ability to translate research papers into working implementations
• At least a year of leadership experience driving technical ML initiatives for a small team
• Solid foundation in software development practices (testing, version control, code review)

Growth Opportunities:

• Opportunity to lead both research direction and technical implementation
• Direct involvement in productionizing cutting-edge ML research
• Accelerated software engineering development 

Preferred (in order):

• Background in NLP 
• Experience with distributed training, MLOps, and cloud ML platforms
• Track record of research publications or open-source ML contributions
• Enterprise SaaS experience 

This role is in a Product-building AI/ML team. This is a Greece-based, full-time, employee-status, fully remote position. 

Aisera is Global and our success draws upon the diverse viewpoints, skills and experiences of our employees. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and are committed to equal employment opportunities regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, gender identity or veteran status.

Aisera is a leading provider of AI Copilot solutions, utilizing AiseraGPT and Generative AI to facilitate business transformation and drive revenue growth through a self-service model. Aisera’s AI Copilot uses industry and domain-specific LLMs to deliver human-like experiencs and auto- remediate requests through AI workflows. With 400+ integrations and 1200+ prebuilt workflows, customers achieve 75%+ automation and 90% cost reduction. Aisera has received numerous recognitions, including Leader in the 2024 Gartner Magic Quadrant™ for Artificial Intelligence Applications in ITSM, FastCompany Best Workplaces for Innovators, Inc 5000 Award for Fastest Growth, Forbes AI50, EY Entrepreneur of the Year 2023, CNBC Upstart 100 Top Startup, Gartner Cool Vendor, Red Herring Top 100 Global Innovator, CIO Innovation Startup Award, CIO Review Top ITSM Solution, and Silicon Review 50 Most Admired Companies.

The Role
Take this opportunity to lead the design and development of advanced AI systems including intelligent agents, conversational interfaces, and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) architectures and systems. Drive technical strategy and implementation for next-generation AI products.

Responsibilities

• Architect and build scalable agentic AI systems capable of autonomous decision-making and task execution
• Architect, design and optimize dialog agents with natural language understanding, context management, and multi-turn conversation capabilities
• Develop and optimize robust search and retrieval systems for RAG implementations, including vector databases, embedding strategies, and knowledge integration
• Take ownership of complex system design, from proof-of-concept to production deployment
• Establish best practices for AI model integration, prompt engineering, and system reliability
• Collaborate with product teams to translate business requirements into technical AI solutions
• Develop and maintain scalable, efficient data pipelines that automate the ingestion, transformation, and storage of data
• Identify performance bottlenecks and improve systems scalability.

Requirements

• At least 7 years in senior software engineering roles, with 2+ years as tech lead or architect 
• 2+ recent years professional work on AI or Search systems 
• Expertise in vector search, embedding models, or RAG system optimization
• Strong background in distributed systems, APIs, and cloud-native AI infrastructure
• Experience with AI frameworks (LangChain, LlamaIndex, etc.), and vector databases or information retrieval systems (preferably Elastic)
• Solid understanding of software development principles and architectural best practices.
• Professional experience with messaging systems such as Kafka, RabbitMQ, or similar technologies.
• Professional experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP or Azure.
• Proficiency in using Docker, Kubernetes, or similar containerization and orchestration tools.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.

Preferred Qualifications (in order):

• Ph.D. in distributed systems, AI systems, or related area
• Familiarity with machine learning concepts and libraries (e.g., Pandas, NumPy, PyTorch).
• Experience with LLM integration, prompt engineering, and AI orchestration frameworks. 

This is a Greece-based, full-time, employee-status, fully remote position.  

Aisera is Global and our success draws upon the diverse viewpoints, skills and experiences of our employees. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and are committed to equal employment opportunities regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, gender identity or veteran status.