Manager, Forensic Accounting

Checkout.com; London; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading fintech firm in London is seeking an experienced Financial Accounting Manager to oversee the audit process and enhance financial reporting capabilities. Ideal candidates will have at least 5 years of post-qualification experience, excel in problem-solving, and possess strong Excel skills. This role offers a hybrid working model, allowing flexibility while fostering collaboration among teams.

Qualifications

• 5+ years post-qualification experience in accounting, audit, or financial reporting.
• Proficient in implementing solutions for forensic accounting problems.
• Experience with Payments and/or Financial Instruments is an advantage.

Responsibilities

• Prepare financial records and audit evidence for payment processing.
• Identify improvement opportunities and Test prior to adoption.
• Liaise with external audit on processes and controls.

Skills

Accounting qualification (ACA, CA)

Forensic accounting problem-solving

Strong Excel skills

Team collaboration

Experience in FinTech or Financial Services

Education

Professional accounting qualification

Tools

Excel

Access/Database

Job description

Company Description

We're Checkout.com - you might not know our name, but companies like eBay, ASOS, Klarna, Uber Eats, and Sony do. That moment when you check out online? We make it happen.

Checkout.com is where the world checks out. Our global network powers billions of transactions every year, making money move without making a fuss. We spent years perfecting a service most people will never notice. Because when digital payments just work, businesses grow, customers stay, and no one stops to think about why.

With 19 offices spanning six continents, we feel at home everywhere - but London is our HQ. Wherever our people work their magic, they're fast-moving, performance-obsessed, and driven by being better every day. Ideal. Because a role here isn't just another job; it's a career-defining opportunity to build the future of fintech.

Job Description

Checkout is rapidly maturing its financial reporting processes and capabilities, for the benefit of our external auditors, our Finance function, the Company, and our halo of interested partners. By its nature, our financial statement audits are backward looking, and are thus predicated on legacy processes, which are enhanced and supplemented by manual and forensic accounting processes.

We're looking for an experienced and versatile Financial Accounting Manager to join our Finance function at Checkout.com. Your work will be instrumental in interfacing with our external auditors to manage the annual financial statement audit process. This includes liaising with and syndicating audit input responsibilities across relevant internal groups, which includes a large, strong team of accounting contractors. Additionally, your role will primarily be a key individual contributor - in that certain legacy accounting processes are supplemented by forensic-style accounting processes and schedules, which require a competent, creative, problem-solving accountant to prepare and maintain.

This role will also be pivotal to shaping the future of our processes - utilising the experience of being immersed in legacy processes to provide ongoing input to the teams that are tasked with building our future-state financial reporting and internal control infrastructure. Your role utilises (and benefits from!) future state capabilities, as they come online.

This role presents a truly unique opportunity to take on interesting (but eminently solvable) accounting and audit challenges, and make a meaningful, long-lasting impact to an exciting, growth-oriented company.

How you'll make an impact

• Be the operational owner for preparing the financial records, and supporting audit evidence, for our core product (payment processing) offering.
• Synthesize learnings and identify improvement opportunities and educate Transformation peers, possibly including the testing of related solutions prior to adoption.
• Syndicate work across the BAU and contractor accounting function to deliver the full range of audit deliverables to a well-managed timeline.
• Liaise with external audit, including educating them on the processes and controls that support our financial reporting.
• Coordinate with peers that bear the responsibility for the audit deliverables not related to our core product offering (SGA/OpEx etc.)
• Prepare and present communications to management regarding audit progress, challenges, innovations etc.

Qualifications

• Professional accounting qualification (ACA, CA) with 5+ years post-qualification experience in accounting, audit, financial reporting, internal control or a related professional area.
• You find motivation in tackling fascinating, forensic-like accounting problems. You have a track record and proficiency in devising and implementing solutions for such challenges.
• Extremely strong Excel skills; Access/Database competencies a strong plus.
• You have experience working within FinTech or Financial Services; and it's an advantage if you have specific experience with Payments and/or Financial Instruments.
• Strong teammate player with a proven ability to work constructively with direct reports, as well as peers, and external audit partners.

Bring all of you to work

We create the conditions for high performers to thrive - through real ownership, fewer blockers, and work that makes a difference from day one.

Here, you'll move fast, take on meaningful challenges, and be recognized for the impact you deliver. It's a place where ambition gets met with opportunity - and where your growth is in your hands.

We work as one team, and we back each other to succeed. So whatever your background or identity, if you're ready to grow and make a difference, you'll be right at home here.

It's important we 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.

Life at Checkout.com

We understand that work is just one part of your life. Our hybrid working model offers flexibility, with three days per week in the office to support collaboration and connection.

Curious about what it's like to be part of our team? Visit our Careers Page to learn more about our culture, open roles, and what drives us.

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