Manager of Product Control, Checkout.com
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3+ days a week in office
To enable businesses and their communities to thrive in the digital economy.
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To enable businesses and their communities to thrive in the digital economy.
1001+ employees
Open for applications
More information about location
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
- Successful candidates will bring experience of leading and delivering financial accounting and operational processes at scale in complex, regulatory environments, ideally within traditional finance, banking or payments/fintech
- They are able to adapt in a high-volume and dynamic environment, juggling multiple deliverables whilst maintaining accuracy and quality of output
- Professional finance qualification such as the ACA or equivalent. You will also hold practical knowledge of IFRS and general accounting principles
- 8+ years of financial accounting, reconciliations and controls experience ideally within a listed environment or large complex company
- Strong understanding of double-entry and complex accounting concepts
- Strong people leader with a track record of leading a sizable team with varied skill set/experience
- Proven ability to find end-to-end solutions to issues and work cross-functionally and with remote teams - including Finance, Product, Engineering, Data
- Ability to lead projects of high complexity to automate manual tasks with the team or department
- Extremely strong working knowledge of MS Excel
- Strong data analytics skills and experience handling large volumes of data
- Systems knowledge, particularly Workday would be highly desirable
- Knowledge of the payments industry and/or Fintech would be beneficial
What the job involves
- As we continue to grow in size, scale and complexity, we are looking for an experienced Manager to join our Finance function
- Reporting to the Head of Finance, Product Control, this newly created role will be responsible for setting up and leading our Product Control team to ensure our trading activities are accounted for accurately and in a timely manner
- The successful applicant will be joining at an exciting time as we invest in strengthening our Accounting and Control capabilities and improve the quality and robustness of balance sheet reporting, particularly standardisation and automation of our accounting and reconciliation processes
- Build, develop, implement, and document end to end Accounting and reconciliation processes for our trading activity ensuring effective operation and control
- Implement and own the control framework to ensure accuracy of financial records and statements from trading activity
- Recruit, train and develop a team of highly skilled Accountants and support their ongoing development to fulfill their potential within their roles
- Review and challenge the control outputs from the team with a focus on identifying discrepancies, find appropriate solutions and initiate corrective actions
- You will apply your strong accounting knowledge and leadership to provide guidance to your team and ensure balances are properly accounted for in line with IFRS requirements
- Effectively partner with broader Finance, Treasury, and Engineering teams in the resolution and implementation of end to end solutions. Experience in complex and multi-system finance implementation projects is positive
- Own the adoption and implementation of accounting and controls on any new product development initiatives
- You will actively work on improving data integrity and quality, automation, strengthening of controls, operational and reporting efficiency
- Implement tactical as well as strategic solutions to improve the firm's ability to be able to place reliance on its financial records from trading activity
- As the SME, you will ensure our processes and controls are robust and will meet audit requirements and ensure effective and timely delivery of the audit evidence/support during year-end audits
- Provide clarity and assurance to key stakeholders on the status of the team’s outputs, including timely escalation of issues and breaks
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
Some candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
37% female employees
-9% employee growth in 12 months
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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