Manager of Financial Accounting, Checkout.com
Audit Liaison
3+ days a week in office
To enable businesses and their communities to thrive in the digital economy.
Posted today
To enable businesses and their communities to thrive in the digital economy.
1001+ employees
Posted today
3+ days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To enable businesses and their communities to thrive in the digital economy.
Role
Who you are
- Professional accounting qualification (ACA, CA) with 5+ years post-qualification experience in accounting, audit, financial reporting, internal control - or a related professional area
- You’ll find motivation in tackling fascinating, forensic-like accounting problems. You’ll have a track record and a proficiency in devising and implementing solutions for such challenges
- Extremely strong Excel skills; Access/Database competencies a strong plus
- You’ll 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
What the job involves
- 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 on-going 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
- Be the operational owner for preparing the financial records, and supporting audit evidence, for our core product (payment processing) offering
- Synthesise 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 corresponding 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
Salary benchmarks
Our take
The payments industry has exploded in the last decade as eCommerce continues to grow as the use of cash falls. Checkout.com are building the go-to platform for all things related to payments, such as accepting transactions, processing them and detecting fraud. They've secured a steady stream of funding from top investors like Tiger Global Management, and are the strategic payments partner for some of the best known fast-moving brands globally such as Patreon, Dashlane, Udacity, Wise, Sony Electronics, and Klarna.
They focus on large merchants and try to make their product as customisable as possible, so that companies integrate Checkout.com as an infrastructure partner in their product. This increases the stickiness of the product and creates many opportunities for them to generate revenue.
Checkout.com have high quality proprietary technology (their platform has been designed from the outset so they can easily deliver incremental services as they expand their offering) and claim to offer the most comprehensive cross-border payment solution for digital commerce.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Employee endorsements
People of all backgrounds are welcomed
"DEIB is where Checkout.com takes it to the next level. This company is excellent at building a sense of belonging and celebrating people from all..."
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Jan 2022
$1bn
SERIES D
Jan 2021
$450m
SERIES C
Total funding: $1.8bn
Company benefits
- Additional day off on your birthday
- Learning scheme: 2 x Learning Days per year, financial support for external courses
- Internal employee communities and social clubs
- Employee-led community outreach, payroll giving and 2 x volunteering days
- Private comprehensive health insurance via BUPA (Medical history disregarded)
- 24 days holiday (plus bank holidays)
- Great Place to Work accredited in the UK and USA
- We proudly provide stock options to our high performing employees under our equity program
- Global Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)
- Family Forming financial support in partnership with Carrot
- Leadership Development Training
- Pension scheme provided via Aegon (We match contributions up to certain amount!)
- Group Income Protection via AIG
- Private Dental Insurance provided via BUPA
- GymPass subscription
- Season Ticket Loan
- Cycle to Work Scheme (Up to £5,000)
Company values
- Aspire
- Excel
- Unite
Company HQ
London, UK
Articles
Leadership
Guillaume Pousaz
(CEO)Previously founded NetMerchant, which sold European currencies to US merchants. Background in mathematical engineering.
People progressing
First joined as a Software Engineer, was promoted to Senior Software Engineer after 1.5 years and was then promoted to Engineering Lead 6 months later. Ignas is now a Senior Engineering Manager.
Betty joined in late 2019 as a Product Analyst. After just 8 months Betty was promoted to a Product Manager, before becoming a Senior Product Manager just 10 months later.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Checkout.com
- Our IT Infrastructure Engineer, Sheryl Lingachetti, spoke to Zoë Schulz from myGwork - LGBTQ+ professionals & allies about trans rights in Mauritius, allyship and the support she has found in her workplace community 🏳️⚧️👇 https://www.attitude.co.uk/life/business/it-engineer-sheryl-on-coming-out-at-work-support-improves-productivity-for-everyone-442696/
- CTRL-ALT-CONNECT is Tech's latest community 🔥 We've partnered with our friends at Wise to create an inclusive community for people in tech to connect over conversation, networking and drinks. Last week we hosted our first panel discussion in our London office, which centred on the topic of Growth. https://www.linkedin.com/posts/checkout_tech-community-activity-7071841326060720129-qDOt?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop
- Our Pride Community provides a safe and welcoming space for our LGBTQIA+ colleagues and allies to connect, learn, and advocate for change. https://www.linkedin.com/posts/checkout_lifeatcheckout-activity-7074738991102611457-u7v5?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop
- Our Pride Community spoke with Adel Naamneh, VP of Solutions Engineering to learn about their experiences of being a member of LGBTQIA+ community and the importance of having corporate responsibility on hiring a diverse work force: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0e9WUmNdVk&t=561s
- Read an interview hosted by The Black Young Professionals Network with the leaders of our Black Community: https://byp-network.com/news/314821
- Read more about the 'FinTech for all' charter, of which we were a founding signatory. The charter aims to create a speak up culture across FinTech, eliminating harassment and bullying: https://fintech.inchorus.org/
- Read this inspiring interview hosted by SheCanCode and one of our female QA Engineers: https://shecancode.io/blog/victoria-santiago-qa-engineer
- Our Principal Product Manager Yasmin, also sat down with SheCanCode on two inspiring articles: https://shecancode.io/blog/meet-yasmin-christie-checkout-principal-product-manager-an-inspirational-tech-career-journey and https://shecancode.io/blog/14-pieces-of-practical-product-management-guidance-from-checkout-part-2
- Plus, our Senior Engineering Manager Marina tells her story with SheCanCode: https://www.shecancode.io/blog/how-to-get-the-best-from-your-team-and-your-own-career-from-one-of-checkouts-engineering-leads
- And finally, our Graduates share some insights too: https://www.shecancode.io/blog/grad-programme-insider-tips-from-checkout
- Find out more information at our Diversity and Inclusion webpage: https://www.checkout.com/diversity-and-inclusion
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