Financial Controller - New York

Sokin; New York (NY); On-site; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Sokin in New York is seeking a highly motivated Financial Controller to join our growing finance team. This role is ideal for a qualified accountant with 2+ years PQE (ACA/ACCA/CPA) and a background in business services, audit, or corporate accounting who wants to contribute to a fast-moving, global business.

You will manage month-end close, prepare financial statements, maintain controls, and ensure compliance across jurisdictions, with emphasis on North and South America.

Qualifications

• Qualified accountant with 2+ years PQE (ACA/ACCA/CPA).
• Background in business services, audit, or corporate accounting.
• Strong understanding of financial accounting principles and controls.
• Experience with consolidated accounts and management reporting.
• Exposure to NetSuite and US LATAM accounting regulations is advantageous.
• Advanced Excel skills and attention to detail.

Responsibilities

• Support month-end close and prepare statements under UK GAAP/US GAAP.
• Review journal entries with bookkeeping to ensure accuracy.
• Maintain general ledger, reconciliations, and asset accounting.
• Assist budgeting, forecasting and modelling for growth.
• Collaborate with auditors and regulatory reporting teams.
• Enhance internal controls and implement scalable processes.

Skills

Advanced Excel

Strong communication

Analytical thinking

Problem solving

Financial accounting knowledge

Education

CPA/ACA/ACCA certified

Tools

NetSuite

Job description

Role

We are seeking a highly motivated Financial Controller to join our growing finance team in New York. This is an excellent opportunity for a qualified accountant with 2+ years of post-qualification experience (ACA/ACCA/CPA) and a background in business services, audit, or corporate accounting who is looking to step into a fast moving, dynamic, global environment for a high growth business.

The successful candidate will play a key role in supporting the month-end close process, preparing accurate financial statements, maintaining robust controls, and ensuring compliance across multiple jurisdictions with a particular focus on our North and South American entities and operations.

About Us

Sokin is a next-generation B2B financial services provider, enabling businesses to make and receive global payments with greater speed, lower cost, and total transparency. Our mission is simple: we’re simplifying global business - so businesses thrive wherever they choose to grow.

We deliver services across:

• Global payments and receivables
• Foreign Exchange (FX)
• Treasury management
• Finance reconciliations

We are rapidly expanding, with established presence in North Americas, EMEA and APAC. Backed by a strong global infrastructure and industry-leading partners, we are redefining how businesses move money worldwide.

Our clients span industries from sports and entertainment to logistics and travel, and our community is growing rapidly. As we continue to expand, we’re building a team of exceptional people who share our ambition to transform the future of global payments.

Key responsibilities

• Partner with the bookkeeping team to review journal entries and ensure financial transactions are recorded accurately and on time as transaction volumes grow.
• Maintain and reconcile general ledger accounts, including accruals, prepayments, intercompany balances, and fixed assets, and strengthen the reconciliation framework as the business scales.
• Support the month-end and year-end close, ensuring accounts are properly reconciled and supporting schedules are complete, and help shorten the close as reporting demands increase.
• Prepare monthly management accounts and assist with statutory financial statements under UK GAAP and, where applicable, US GAAP.
• Contribute to regulatory capital reporting, including preparation of capital and related regulatory returns, supporting schedules, and commentary, working with finance and risk as the firm’s capital position and reporting requirements evolve.
• Assist with VAT, payroll, and other statutory filings, ensuring timely submission and compliance.
• Work with auditors by preparing audit schedules and supporting documentation and responding to queries.
• Maintain and continuously improve financial controls, including designing controls that can scale with headcount, product, and entity growth.
• Support budgeting and forecasting with accurate historical information, and help build the models and processes used as the business plans for growth.
• Identify opportunities to streamline and automate finance processes, and help implement them so the function can support a larger, more complex business without a linear increase in manual work.
• Collaborate with finance, risk, and operations so management, statutory, and regulatory reporting stays accurate and consistent as the business is built out.

Requirements

• Qualified accountant (CPA/ACA/ACCA) with at least 2 years of post-qualification experience (PQE).
• Background in business services, audit, or corporate accounting.
• Strong understanding of financial accounting principles, statutory reporting, and control frameworks.
• Experience preparing or assisting with consolidated accounts and management reporting.
• Exposure to ERP systems (NetSuite preferred) and strong systems orientation.
• Working knowledge or exposure to US tax, LATAM accounting regulations, and international reporting standards is advantageous.
• Advanced Excel skills, including data manipulation and analysis.
• Excellent attention to detail, analytical thinking, and problem-solving skills.
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to partner effectively across global functions.
• Proactive, organised, and able to work independently in a fast-paced, international environment.
• Right to work in the jurisdiction in which you are applying.

Sokin has grown 9x in three years, from $14M to $90M in run-rate net revenue, and we're on track to pass $120M by the end of 2026. We're doubling year over year, with just $12M in net cash burn and a growing US and Canada team of 50+.

The momentum is real and the next chapter is yours to shape.

Please note, candidates will need to have the right to work in the jurisdiction that they are looking to work in.

We are an equal opportunities employer committed to creating an inclusive work environment. As a growing global startup, we value agility and flexibility in our working culture. If you require any accommodations during the recruitment process, please let us know.