Financial Manager Product Control

2 months ago

London, Greater London, United Kingdom Checkout Group Full time
Job Description

Role Overview

We are seeking an experienced Financial Manager to join our Finance function at Checkout Group. As a key member of our team, you will be responsible for setting up and leading our Product Control team to ensure our trading activities are accounted for accurately and in a timely manner.

Key Responsibilities

  1. Accounting and Reconciliation: Build, develop, implement, and document end-to-end Accounting and reconciliation processes for our trading activity ensuring effective operation and control.
  2. Control Framework: Implement and own the control framework to ensure accuracy of financial records and statements from trading activity.
  3. Team Leadership: Recruit, train and develop a team of highly skilled Accountants and support their ongoing development to fulfill their potential within their roles.
  4. Accounting Guidance: Apply your strong accounting knowledge and leadership to provide guidance to your team and ensure balances are properly accounted for in line with IFRS requirements.
  5. Collaboration: Effectively partner with broader Finance, Treasury, and Engineering teams in the resolution and implementation of end-to-end solutions.
  6. Adoption and Implementation: Own the adoption and implementation of accounting and controls on any new product development initiatives.
  7. Data Integrity and Quality: Actively work on improving data integrity and quality, automation, strengthening of controls, operational and reporting efficiency.
  8. Tactical and Strategic Solutions: Implement tactical as well as strategic solutions to improve the firm's ability to place reliance on its financial records from trading activity.
  9. Audit Support: As the SME, you will ensure our processes and controls are robust and will meet audit requirements and ensure effective and timely delivery of the audit evidence/support during year-end audits.

Requirements

  • Experience of leading and delivering financial accounting and operational processes at scale in complex, regulatory environments, ideally within traditional finance, banking or payments/fintech.
  • Professional finance qualification such as the ACA or equivalent. You will also hold practical knowledge of IFRS and general accounting principles.
  • 8+ years of financial accounting, reconciliations and controls experience ideally within a listed environment or large complex company.
  • Strong understanding of double-entry and complex accounting concepts.
  • Proven ability to find end-to-end solutions to issues and work cross-functionally and with remote teams - including Finance, Product, Engineering, Data.
  • Ability to lead projects of high complexity to automate manual tasks with the team or department.
  • Extremely strong working knowledge of MS Excel.
  • Strong data analytics skills and experience handling large volumes of data.
  • Systems knowledge, particularly Workday would be highly desirable.
  • Knowledge of the payments industry and/or Fintech would be beneficial.

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