Senior Associate, Finance Platform (TL)

Company Description

As part of its continued growth, Checkout.com is looking for a Financial Accounting to join our Financial Control and Accounting function, based in our London office. Your work will be instrumental in building our financial infrastructure systems and tools to deliver financial information in an automated, scalable and well controlled manner.

You will partner with our Product and Engineering teams on our big rock initiatives such as building our proprietary Finance platform and infrastructure capabilities. You will collaborate across the sub-disciplines within Financial Control and Accounting (including operational teams) to ensure that solutions implemented meet finance data, operations, system integration, financial reporting, audit and control requirements. 

This will be a hands-on role and is an excellent opportunity for a Finance professional to step into a FinTech and take a hands-on role in building a strong technological foundation for financial operations and reporting within Checkout.

Job Description

• Support the Finance SME in executing the Financial Infrastructure roadmap for your workstreams.

• Build an understanding of the current state of Accounting processes and identify problem statements that require future state solutions.

• Partner with Product and Engineering teams to clearly articulate Finance requirements, gaps and inefficiencies through discovery discussions. 

• Define and document future state requirements alongside product and ensure alignment with accounting policies and best practices on controls. 

• Active involvement during the development phase to provide feedback and iterate in a fast and agile manner.

• Build and execute test and adoption activities for any new implementation and ensure impact to BAU operations are adequately understood and communicated to stakeholders.

• Maintain granular level project plan for your workstream tracked via the PMO.

• Provide clarity to key stakeholders on workstream status and maintain close communication with workstream SME on any key decisions to be made.

Qualifications

Successful candidates will bring Finance functional SME experience from an organisation with complex products and features, ideally within traditional finance/banking or payments/fintech. They should be comfortable being hands-on and operational where needed. You will be impacting through others and therefore the ability to work with cross-functional teams and liaise with senior leaders is a must. 

Education

• Professional finance qualification such as the ACA or equivalent 

Experience

• 2+ years post qualification experience in Finance or Accounting roles, with experience in Finance Systems transformation. 

• Proven track record of working on complex cross-functional technology transformation and implementation projects.

• Experience collaborating with Product and Engineering teams

• Experience working in complex, face paced agile transformation projects ideally within a listed environment of a global financial services or payments/fintech organisation.

Skills

• SME on financial accounting, reporting, reconciliations and controls

• Knowledge of ERP systems and their integration with GL systems

• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and strategic thinking abilities

• Proven track record dealing with multiple stakeholders

• You are not afraid to roll up your sleeves and take responsibility to do whatever needs doing to solve problems.

Additional Information

Apply without meeting all requirements statement 

If you don't meet all the requirements but think you might still be right for the role, please apply anyway. We're always keen to speak to people who connect with our mission and values.

We believe in equal opportunities

We work as one team. Wherever you come from. However you identify. And whichever payment method you use. 

Our clients come from all over the world — and so do we. Hiring hard-working people and giving them a community to thrive in is critical to our success.

When you join our team, we’ll empower you to unlock your potential so you can do your best work. We’d love to hear how you think you could make a difference here with us. 

We want to set you up for success and make our process as accessible as possible. So let us know in your application, or tell your recruiter directly, if you need anything to make your experience or working environment more comfortable. We’ll be happy to support you.

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