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Senior Associate Product Control - London £75k
cer are working with one of the most exciting Fintechs a payment processing provider
They are looking for a Senior Associate Product Control to join their team on a permanent basis.
Job Description
The role
As we continue to grow in size, scale and complexity, we are looking for a Senior Financial Accountant to join us. Working as part of our Product Control team, this newly created role will support our trading activity reconciliation to ensure timely and accurate reporting of our balance sheet position.
The successful applicant will be joining at an exciting time as we invest in strengthening our Accounting operations capabilities and improve the quality and robustness of balance sheet reporting, particularly standardisation and automation of reconciliations.
How Youll Make An Impact
Perform accounting and reconciliation processes and controls across our key trading account balances such as scheme debtors, merchant creditors and Fx clearing.
Analyse and reconcile data from various systems and sources to identify control gaps and reconciliation breaks.
Collaborate with Product, Treasury and Finance teams to investigate discrepancies, understand the root cause and initiate corrective actions.
Be the SME for reconciliations under your control, you will apply your strong accounting knowledge to ensure balances are properly accounted for in line with IFRS requirements.
Set-up documentation and processes that are robust and well controlled for period end close and audit purposes.
Continually look at ways of improving data integrity and quality, automation, strengthening of controls, operational and reporting efficiency.
Responsible for guiding and leading automation work and new product development initiatives and testing that impact your balance sheet accounts.
Work closely with the auditors both internal and external to ensure successful completion of the audits in a timely manner.
Qualifications
What were looking for
Professional finance qualification such as the ACA or equivalent. You will also hold practical knowledge of IFRS and general accounting principles
4+ years work experience with complex balance sheet reconciliations
Experience of working in a high-volume, complex and dynamic environment in a complex, regulatory environment, ideally within Payments/FinTech or Financial Services
Extremely strong working knowledge of MS Excel.
Strong data analytics skills and experience handling large volumes of data.
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.
