Group Financial Controller

Lendable; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage

Retirement savings plan

Employee referral programme

Office meals & snacks

Hybrid working

Sustainable commuting

Job summary

Lendable is a leading UK fintech scaling its finance operation to support rapid growth across the UK, US, and Mexico. We seek a Group Financial Controller to own the controllership function and ensure integrity of our books across multiple entities and GAAPs.

The role emphasizes process, automation, and control design to tighten the close timetable and build a faster, more accurate operation as volumes grow. You will partner with Tax, Treasury, and FP&A and lead the controllership team.

Qualifications

• ACA/ACCA/CIMA qualified with 10+ years PQE.
• Minimum 3 years in a controllership leadership role.
• Experience maintaining books across IFRS, UK GAAP and US GAAP.
• Proven track record in month-end close, reconciliations, AP and payroll at high volume.
• Strong focus on process, automation, and control design.

Responsibilities

• Own the group month-end close end to end across all entities.
• Maintain books and ledgers across IFRS, UK GAAP and US GAAP.
• Own the reconciliation control framework for balance sheets.
• Lead accounts payable and payroll at volume with accuracy and timeliness.
• Design and embed financial controls with internal audit readiness.
• Drive automation and efficiency to scale with volume.

Skills

ACA/ACCA/CIMA

Controllership leadership

GAAP knowledge

Multi-entity accounting

Education

Professional accounting qualification

Job description

About LendableLendable is on a mission to build the world's best technology to help people get credit and save money. We're building one of the world’s leading fintech companies and are off to a strong start:

• One of the UK’s most exciting unicorns with a team of over 800 people

• Among the fastest-growing tech companies in the UK

• Profitable since 2017

• Backed by top investors including Balderton Capital and Goldman Sachs

• Loved by customers with the best reviews in the market (4.9 across 10,000s of reviews on Trustpilot)

So far, we’ve rebuilt the Big Three consumer finance products from scratch: loans, credit cards and car finance. We get money into our customers’ hands in minutes instead of days.

We’re growing fast, and there’s a lot more to do: we’re going after the two biggest Western markets (UK and US) where trillions worth of financial products are held by big banks with dated systems and painful processes.

Join us if you want to Take ownership: you are trusted to make decisions that drive a material impact on the direction and success of the company from day 1

• Work in small teams of exceptional people: Lendies are relentlessly resourceful. We challenge the status quo to solve problems and find smarter solutions

• Build the best technology in-house: we use new data sources, machine learning and AI to make machines do the heavy lifting

About the role

We're looking for a Group Financial Controller to own the controllership function across the the company group. This is the team responsible for the integrity of our books: the monthly close, the reconciliation control framework, accounts payable and payroll, across multiple entities and multiple GAAP frameworks.

There's a lot to do. We are a high-transaction-volume lending business scaling across the UK, the US and Mexico; and the finance operation needs to scale with it. This role is about process, automation and control rather than technical accounting research: tightening the close timetable, designing controls that actually hold, and building an operation that gets faster and more accurate as volume grows rather than slower and more manual.

What you'll be doing/impact on objectives

• Own the group month-end close end to end, including the close timetable and the discipline that keeps it on track across all entities

• Maintain books and ledgers across multiple GAAP frameworks (IFRS, UK GAAP, US GAAP) for a multi-entity group

• Own the reconciliation control framework: design, integrity and evidencing of reconciliations across the balance sheet

• Lead accounts payable and payroll at volume, holding the standard on accuracy, timeliness and control

• Design and embed financial controls across the finance operation, working with the Internal Control Manager on control narratives, RACMs and audit readiness

• Drive automation and efficiency: identify where manual effort scales badly and replace it with systemised, repeatable process

• Build, lead and develop the controllership team, setting the standard for how the function operates

• Partner with Technical Accounting, Tax, Treasury and FP&A, and act as a key point of contact for external auditors

What we're looking for

• Qualified accountant (ACA/ACCA/CIMA) with a minimum of 10 years PQE

• At least 3 years in a controllership leadership role

• Proven experience maintaining books and ledgers across multiple GAAP frameworks (IFRS, UK GAAP, US GAAP). You do not need to be a technical accounting expert in each

• Track record owning management accounts close, reconciliation control frameworks, AP and payroll at volume in a regulated or high-transaction lending business

• Demonstrable focus on process, automation, control design and close timetable discipline, with evidence of driving efficiency at scale

• Comfortable operating in a multi-entity, multi-currency group structure

• Nice to have: ECL/IFRS 9 or CECL exposure

Interview process

• Screening stage: an initial phone interview with the Talent / hiring team and a 15 minute online cognitive assessment

• Remote Hiring Manager Interview 30 minutes

• Onsite interviews with the Finance Leadership team: 90 minutes

• Remote Final Stage interview with the CFO /CCO: 30 minutes

Life at the company

• Winning team: the opportunity to scale up one of the world’s most successful fintech companies

• Flexible working: flexible approach tailored to each role. Hybrid roles require three days in-office weekly; fully remote roles include regular opportunities for in-person connection through socials and off-sites

• Socials & connection: opportunities and events to come together, socialise, and get to know each other beyond the office walls

• Health coverage: support for your physical and mental wellbeing, including private health cover

• Retirement & savings: long-term financial wellbeing through retirement savings plans

• Employee referral programme: earn a competitive bonus when you refer successful new team members

• Office meals & snacks: enjoy a fully stocked kitchen, plus complimentary lunches prepared by in-house chefs on in-office days at select locations

• Sustainable commuting: cycle-to-work and electric vehicle salary sacrifice schemes available in select locations

Please note: The availability and details of specific benefits vary by location and role. For more information, please speak to your Talent Partner.

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