Company Description Checkout.com is one of the most exciting fintechs in the world. Our mission is to enable businesses and their communities to thrive in the digital economy. We’re the strategic payments partner for some of the best known fast-moving brands globally such as Wise, Hut Group, Sony Electronics, Homebase, Henkel, Klarna and many others. Purpose-built with performance and scalability in mind, our flexible cloud-based payments platform helps global enterprises launch new products and create experiences customers love. And it\\\’s not just what we build that makes us different. It\\\’s how.We empower passionate problem-solvers to collaborate, innovate and do their best work. That’s why we’re on the Forbes Cloud 100 list and a Great Place to Work accredited company. And we’re just getting started. We’re building diverse and inclusive teams around the world — because that’s how we create even better experiences for our merchants and our partners. And we need your help. Join us to build the digital economy of tomorrow.Job Description The roleCheckout is rapidly maturing its financial reporting processes and capabilities, for the benefit of our external auditors, our Finance function, the Company, and our halo of interested stakeholders. By its nature, our financial statement audits are backward looking, and are thus predicated on legacy processes, which are enhanced and supplemented by manual and forensic accounting processes.We\\\’re looking for an experienced and versatile accounting professional 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 stakeholder 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.You will 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 provides an excellent platform for a finance leader looking to step into a transformational role within a FinTech. It 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.How you’ll make an impactBe 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.Qualifications What we’re looking forProfessional accounting qualification such as the ACA, CA etc.Min 12-15 years post qualification experience in accounting, audit, financial reporting, internal control, etc.Extremely strong excel skills, Access/database competencies a strong plus.An accountant who is galvanized by interesting, forensic-type accounting problems, with demonstrated experience with ideating and delivering solutions to these types of problems.Experience with payments and/or financial instruments viewed favorably.Strong people leader with a proven ability to work constructively with direct reports, as well as peers, and external audit stakeholders.Additional Information Apply without meeting all requirements statementIf you don\\\’t meet all the requirements but think you might still be right for the role, please apply anyway. We\\\’re always keen to speak to people who connect with our mission and values.We believe in equal opportunitiesWe work as one team. Wherever you come from. However you identify. And whichever payment method you use.Our clients come from all over the world — and so do we. Hiring hard-working people and giving them a community to thrive in is critical to our success.When you join our team, we’ll empower you to unlock your potential so you can do your best work. We’d love to hear how you think you could make a difference here with us.We want to set you up for success and make our process as accessible as possible. So let us know in your application, or tell your recruiter directly, if you need anything to make your experience or working environment more comfortable. We’ll be happy to support you.Take a peek inside life at Checkout.com viaOur Culture video https://youtu.be/BEwnpHuadSwOur careers page https://www.checkout.com/careersOur LinkedIn Life pages bit.ly/3OaoN1UOur Instagram https://www.instagram.com/checkout_com/Apply without meeting all requirements statementIf you don\\\’t meet all the requirements but think you might still be right for the role, please apply anyway. We\\\’re always keen to speak to people who connect with our mission and values.We believe in equal opportunitiesWe work as one team. Wherever you come from. However you identify. And whichever payment method you use.Our clients come from all over the world — and so do we. Hiring hard-working people and giving them a community to thrive in is critical to our success.When you join our team, we’ll empower you to unlock your potential so you can do your best work. We’d love to hear how you think you could make a difference here with us.We want to set you up for success and make our process as accessible as possible. So let us know in your application, or tell your recruiter directly, if you need anything to make your experience or working environment more comfortable. We’ll be happy to support you.Take a peek inside life at Checkout.com viaOur Culture video https://youtu.be/BEwnpHuadSwOur careers page https://www.checkout.com/careersOur LinkedIn Life pages bit.ly/3OaoN1UOur Instagram https://www.instagram.com/checkout_com/This employer is a corporate member ofmyGwork – LGBTQ+ professionals, the business community for LGBTQ+ professionals,students, inclusive employers & anyone who believes in workplace equality.#J-18808-Ljbffr#J-18808-Ljbffr#J-18808-Ljbffr