Senior Accountant, Finance Transformation

Checkout.com; London; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

An exciting fintech company is seeking a Financial Accounting professional to join their London office. In this dynamic role, you will contribute to building a robust financial infrastructure while collaborating with cross-functional teams. Your expertise will help shape the future of financial operations, ensuring alignment with accounting policies and enhancing system integration. This is a unique opportunity to engage in transformative projects within a fast-paced environment, making a significant impact on the company's growth and success. If you're passionate about finance and technology, this role is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• 2+ years experience in Finance or Accounting roles, focusing on systems transformation.
• Proven track record in cross-functional technology projects.

Responsibilities

• Support Finance SME in completing the Financial Infrastructure roadmap.
• Collaborate with Product and Engineering teams on finance requirements.

Skills

Finance functional SME experience

Analytical skills

Problem-solving abilities

Critical thinking

Stakeholder management

Education

Professional finance qualification (ACA or equivalent)

Tools

ERP systems

GL systems

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Company Description

Checkout.com is one of the most exciting fintechs in the world. Our mission is to enable businesses and their communities to thrive in the digital economy. We're the strategic payments partner for some of the best known fast-moving brands globally such as Wise, Hut Group, Sony Electronics, Homebase, Henkel, Klarna and many others. Purpose-built with performance and scalability in mind, our flexible cloud-based payments platform helps global enterprises launch new products and create experiences customers love. And it's not just what we build that makes us different. It's how.

We empower passionate problem-solvers to collaborate, innovate and do their best work. That's why we're on the Forbes Cloud 100 list and a Great Place to Work accredited company. And we're just getting started. We're building diverse and inclusive teams around the world - because that's how we create even better experiences for our merchants and our partners. And we need your help. Join us to build the digital economy of tomorrow.

Job 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'll 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 role allows Finance professionals to enter a FinTech environment, actively participating in building a strong technological foundation for financial operations within Checkout.com.

How you'll make an impact:

• Support the Finance SME in completing the Financial Infrastructure roadmap for your workstreams.
• Build an understanding of the current state of Accounting processes and identify problem statements that need future state solutions.
• Partner with Product and Engineering teams to clearly articulate Finance requirements, gaps and inefficiencies through discovery discussions.
• Define and detail future state requirements alongside product and ensure alignment with accounting policies and standard processes on controls.
• Active involvement during the development phase to provide feedback and iterate in a fast and agile manner.
• Build and complete 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 transparency to key stakeholders on workstream status and maintain close communication with workstream SME on any key decisions to be made.

Qualifications

What we're looking for:

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.

• Professional finance qualification such as the ACA or equivalent
• 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, fast-paced agile transformation projects ideally within a listed environment of a global financial services or payments/fintech organisation.
• SME on financial accounting, reporting, reconciliations and controls
• Knowledge of ERP systems and their integration with GL systems
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and critical thinking abilities
• Proven track record taking care of multiple stakeholders

Additional Information

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.