What the job involves
- Manage Financial Operations:
- Manage accounting and financial functions, including month-end close processes, account reconciliations, and spend management.
- Oversee various company annual audits and ensure compliance with financial regulations and reporting requirements.
- Collaborate on the development of accurate budgets and financial plans, providing insights to management and driving improvements in financial outcomes.
- Support the production of management reports, ensuring relevance and accuracy, while providing sound financial advice to drive business strategy.
- Resolve day-to-day and complex accounting issues, while identifying key performance metrics and ensuring robust internal controls.
- Support Treasury management
- Staying up to date with industry regulations and ensuring compliance with tax laws, government reporting requirements, and accounting standards specific to financing companies
- Enforcement of strong internal controls to safeguard assets and improve efficiency.
- Identifying financial risks and implementing controls to mitigate them. This includes liquidity, market, or operational aspects within a tech financing company
- Support Controller/VP of Finance on an as needed basis.
- Process Improvement:
- Build and streamline processes, focusing on automation, efficiency, and the standardization of accounting operations.
- Develop scalable accounting operations to support rapid growth, ensuring that systems and processes can handle increasing transaction volumes
- Managing financial systems including Netsuite
- Leadership and Team Management:
- Overseeing, mentoring, and developing the accounting and finance team, as well as ensuring appropriate resource allocation.
- Work with other departments on new product offerings and non-routine transactions, ensuring financial terms and impacts are well-documented and operationalized.
- Clear and effective communication with internal and external stakeholders.
Who you are
- An accounting qualification from a recognized accounting body (e.g ACCA, ACA, CPA) with a minimum of 3-5 years post-qualification experience
- Experience with  data analytics tools and strong excel skills are essential
- Experience in a financial services environment is required
- Proficient English skills. As our main business language, it's a must to be comfortable working in the language
- US GAAP experience preferred (or at least demonstrated ability to get up to speed quickly)
- Big 4 and/or start-up experience preferred
- Experience working with Netsuite an advantage
- Qualities:
- Service Mindset:
- Collaborative: Works well across departments, building strong relationships with teams and stakeholders to ensure financial processes align with company needs.
- Empathetic: Understands the needs of both internal teams and external customers, ensuring financial decisions benefit all parties involved.
- Integrity-driven: Always seeks to do the right thing, ensuring transparency in financial reporting and acting with honesty in all dealings
- Builder Attitude:
- Proactive: Takes initiative to identify and fix issues in financial systems and processes, without waiting for direction.
- Solution-oriented: Actively seeks ways to improve workflows, streamline processes, and enhance financial systems through innovation and automation.
- Growth-focused: Has a continuous improvement mindset, always looking for opportunities to grow personally and help the business evolve financially.
- Courageous Spirit:
- Strong Communicator: Provides and accepts direct feedback, using it as a tool for improvement and being unafraid to address conflicts or financial challenges head-on.
- Visionary: Thinks big and aligns financial strategies with the company’s bold aspirations, pushing the boundaries of traditional finance functions to support innovation.
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