Senior Accountant, Checkout.com

• Successful candidates will bring Finance functional SME experience from an organisation with complex products and features, ideally within traditional finance/banking or payments/fintech
• They should be comfortable being hands-on and operational where needed
• Professional finance qualification such as the ACA or equivalent
• 2+ years post qualification experience in Finance or Accounting roles, with experience in Finance Systems transformation
• Proven track record of working on complex cross-functional technology transformation and implementation projects
• Experience collaborating with Product and Engineering teams
• Experience working in complex, face paced agile transformation projects ideally within a listed environment of a global financial services or payments/fintech organisation
• SME on financial accounting, reporting, reconciliations and controls
• Knowledge of ERP systems and their integration with GL systems
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and critical thinking abilities
• Proven track record taking care of multiple stakeholders

• As part of its continued growth, Checkout.com is looking for a Financial Accounting to join our Financial Control and Accounting function, based in our London office
• Your work will be instrumental in building our financial infrastructure systems and tools to deliver financial information in an automated, scalable and well controlled manner
• You'll partner with our Product and Engineering teams on our big rock initiatives such as building our proprietary Finance platform and infrastructure capabilities
• You will collaborate across the sub-disciplines within Financial Control and Accounting (including operational teams) to ensure that solutions implemented meet finance data, operations, system integration, financial reporting, audit and control requirements
• This role allows Finance professionals to enter a FinTech environment, actively participating in building a strong technological foundation for financial operations within Checkout.com
• Support the Finance SME in completing the Financial Infrastructure roadmap for your workstreams
• Build an understanding of the current state of Accounting processes and identify problem statements that need future state solutions
• Partner with Product and Engineering teams to clearly articulate Finance requirements, gaps and inefficiencies through discovery discussions
• Define and detail future state requirements alongside product and ensure alignment with accounting policies and standard processes on controls
• Active involvement during the development phase to provide feedback and iterate in a fast and agile manner
• Build and complete test and adoption activities for any new implementation and ensure impact to BAU operations are adequately understood and communicated to stakeholders
• Maintain granular level project plan for your workstream tracked via the PMO
• Provide transparency to key stakeholders on workstream status and maintain close communication with workstream SME on any key decisions to be made
• You will be impacting through others and therefore the ability to work with cross-functional teams and liaise with senior leaders is a must

• 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)

Total funding: $1.8bn

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.