Financial Accountant, Curve
6 Month Contract
Consolidating all a customer's bank cards into a single card
Be an early applicant
Consolidating all a customer's bank cards into a single card
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
201-500 employees
Company mission
To simplify the way people spend, send, see and save money.
Role
Who you are
- It requires strong experience in year-end audit preparation within complex or regulated environments, working to tight deadlines
- Experience within fintech or other high-volume, transaction-driven businesses is highly desirable
- This is a hands-on role requiring strong ownership of deliverables, attention to detail, and collaboration across Finance, Treasury, Operations, and other functions to ensure Curve is fully audit-ready for 2025
- Qualified accountant (ACCA, CIMA, or equivalent)
- Minimum of three years’ experience in financial control, accounting, or audit preparation, with direct responsibility for balance sheet substantiation and reconciliation
- Strong understanding of financial accounting principles and audit processes, ideally gained within fintech, payments, or high-growth technology environments
- Demonstrated experience in preparing balance sheet files, audit support packs, and working directly with external auditors
- Advanced Excel proficiency, including data manipulation, complex formulas, and pivot tables
- Familiarity with NetSuite (preferred) or other cloud-based ERP systems
- Exceptional attention to detail, with a structured, risk-aware and analytical approach to problem-solving
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, able to work collaboratively across functions
- Proven ability to work independently and manage competing priorities in a fast-paced, change-driven environment
- To be considered, applicants must be ACCA-qualified with 1–3 years’ post-qualification experience, and must have successfully delivered audit-ready reconciliations
What the job involves
- This interim role has been created to support Curve’s financial close and audit preparation for the year ending 2025
- The successful candidate will be responsible for ensuring that all reconciliations and balance sheet substantiations are fully completed by early February 2026, in line with the audit requirements for both the Curve European entity and the wider UK and Group audits
- The role will play a key part in ensuring that all balance sheet accounts are complete, accurate, and fully supported with audit-ready documentation for the year-end financial statements
- The focus of this role is not on routine reconciliations, but on validating the integrity of the general ledger and identifying and resolving control or data gaps that may impact audit outcomes
- In addition to ensuring that the Curve Group balance sheet is fully substantiated, the successful candidate will work directly with external auditors to ensure they have a clear understanding of key reconciliations and supporting evidence, enabling a smooth and successful audit completion
- Audit Preparation and Balance Sheet Substantiation
- Prepare audit-ready balance sheet reconciliations across key areas such as accruals, prepayments, intercompany, deferred revenue, fixed assets, customer funds, interchange, settlement, and chargebacks
- Ensure all balances are accurate, complete, and fully supported by underlying records, with clear audit trails and documentation
- Support the preparation of balance sheet substantiation packs for the 2025 year-end close, ensuring that reconciliations are ready for review by the Group Financial Controller and external auditors
- Financial Control and Governance
- Validate the integrity of the general ledger, ensuring postings reflect underlying business transactions accurately
- Identify and address control gaps or inconsistencies within the reconciliation process and assist in strengthening Curve’s financial control environment
- Support the rollout of standardised reconciliation templates and review processes to ensure consistency across entities and accounts
- Process Improvement and Efficiency
- Review existing reconciliation and substantiation processes and recommend improvements to enhance accuracy and efficiency
- Identify opportunities for automation or simplification of manual tasks, particularly around data extraction and reconciliation preparation
- Assist in implementing best practice reporting and documentation standards to support audit readiness and future scalability
- Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Work closely with teams across Treasury, FP&A, Product, and Operations to ensure alignment between transactional data and financial reporting
- Communicate effectively with stakeholders to resolve outstanding issues and ensure key balances are properly supported
- External Audit Support
- Help coordinate and respond to audit queries efficiently to support a smooth and successful audit completion for the 2025 financial year
- This is a 6-month contract, outside IR35, with an immediate start
Salary benchmarks
Our take
While its customers have their own Curve card, fintech company Curve emphasises its distinction from traditional banking institutions. Renowned for its groundbreaking remedy to credit and debit card clutter - a singular card amalgamating multiple accounts - the company has garnered widespread acclaim.
Alongside its all-on-one card, Curve offers customers access to spending insights and premium exchange rates for international travel. Its astute banking tool secured a hefty $1B lending capital injection from Credit Suisse in 2022, followed by a substantial $58M Series C funding round in 2023, ranking among the largest in tech that year.
Curve's dominance extends beyond mere payment aggregation; its analytical tools outpace competitor platforms like Apple Pay. Additionally, Curve has introduced Curve Flex, as a solution tailored to the contentious buy-now-pay-later model. With plans to leverage its 2023 funding for enhancing customer experience, particularly through app refinements and flex solutions, Curve is poised to fortify its position while laying the gorundwork for future collaborations.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 9 rounds)
Mar 2025
$48.7m
LATE VC
Jan 2024
$39.2m
LATE VC
Total funding: $341.5m
Company HQ
Paddington, London, UK
Leadership
Shachar Bialick
(CEO)Previously worked as Head of Product at Checkout.com, CEO at Machshavot SmartJOB, and Founder and former CEO at SmartEQ. Completed an MBA at INSEAD.
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