Financial Accountant

One of the most exciting FinTechs in the world are hiring. Our client, uses flexible and scalable technology to help businesses around the globe boost acceptance rates, reduce processing costs, combat fraud, and turn payments into a major revenue stream. Headquartered in London, with 16 offices worldwide our client's business has grown rapidly over the last few years.

They empower passionate problem-solvers to collaborate, innovate and do their best work. They are on Forbes Cloud 100 list and a Great Place to Work accredited company.

The role - Associate - Product Control

Salary up to £68,000 + bonus + benefits

Hybrid - 3 days per week in the London office

They are looking for Financial Accountants to join the Product Control Team. This newly created role will support the trading activity reconciliation to ensure timely and accurate reporting of the balance sheet position.

The successful applicant will be joining at an exciting time as they invest in strengthening their accounting operations capabilities and improve the quality and robustness of balance sheet reporting, particularly standardisation and automation of reconciliations.

Responsibilities

• Perform BAU accounting and reconciliation processes and controls across our key trading account balances such as scheme debtors, merchant creditors and FX clearing
• Analyse and reconcile data from various systems and sources to identify control gaps and reconciliation breaks
• Collaborate with Product, Treasury and Finance teams to investigate discrepancies understand the root cause and initiate corrective actions
• Be the SME for reconciliations under your control, you will apply your accounting knowledge to ensure balances are properly accounted for in line with IFRS requirements
• Set-up documentation and processes that are robust and well controlled for period end close and audit purposes
• Continually look at ways of improving data integrity and quality, automation,

strengthening of controls, operational and reporting efficiency

• Participate in project work or product development initiatives alongside daily responsibilities
• Work closely with the auditors both internal and external to ensure successful completion of the audits in a timely manner

Qualifications

• Professional finance qualification such as the ACA/ACCA or equivalent
• 2+ years work experience with complex balance sheet reconciliations in a high-volume transaction environment
• Knowledge and expertise on financial accounting, reporting, reconciliations and controls experience ideally within a listed environment or large complex company
• Extremely strong working knowledge of MS Excel
• Strong data analytics skills and experience handling large volumes of data
• Proven ability to find end-to-end solutions to issues and work cross-functionally and with remote teams - including Finance, Product, Engineering, Data
• Excellent communication skills at all levels
• Fast learner, able to work independently and with minimal supervision

If you feel you meet the above criteria, please do apply. Unfortunately given the number of applications, we may be unable to respond to all unsuccessful applications.