Summary role description:

Hiring for a Deputy Manager/ Manager – Finance, for the UK region, for a global Payments Tech SaaS platform client.

Company description:

Our client is a Europe-headquartered start-up SaaS FinTech company that provides a global scale Forex remittances platform (both Send side and Receive side) that enables instant foreign exchange remittances and payments through API-driven integration. Founded in 2014, they have scaled rapidly – especially over the past 3 years – and now host all major Merchants, Business Enterprises Banks, Forex Solutions Providers, Wallets, and other players in the ecosystem. Their leadership team is distributed across multiple continents and have business operations across the globe. They have been widely recognized to be amongst best-in-class workplaces and formally certified as GPTW (“Great Place To Work”). Their employee headcount has grown eight-fold over the past 3 years.

Role details:

• Title / Designation: Finance Manager
• Reporting Manager: Finance Controller
• Location: London, UK

Role & responsibilities:

• Ability to quickly assimilate and analyse detailed information to form prioritised judgements and identify potential risks
• Conduct analysis to make forecasts and report to FC/CFO
• Prepare timely and detailed reports on financial performance on a monthly, quarterly, and annual basis
• Collaborate with Compliance, Payment Ops and Treasury to ensure everything is in line with safeguarding regulations as per FCA and regulatory bodies.
• Preparation of full month end management accounts - P+L and Balance Sheet Preparation of balance sheets, ensuring they are reconciled and ready for use in management account packs
• Business Finance partnering - working closely with stakeholders across the entities.
• Taking care of internal / statutory / government audit; evaluating the internal control systems with a view to highlight shortcomings & implementing recommendations made by Internal Auditors.
• Leading Planning & Forecasting Cycle on a monthly / annual basis and instituting internal checks to ensure that the expenses are within budgets.
• Taking care of fund management by monitoring the inflow & outflow of funds and ensure optimum utilization of available funds to accomplish organizational goals.
• Spearheading finance functions including determining financial objectives, designing & implementing systems & policies, conducting cost analysis and reporting variances to facilitate internal financial control.
• Reviewing the reconciliation activities; including setting up journal entries and accounting for provisions.
• Preparing, examining & analysing accounting records, financial statements & other financial reports to assess accuracy as per the accounting standards

Candidate requirements:

• 4 years of relevant experience on CMA/ACA/ACCA/CIMA
• Industry experience or knowledge across different functional areas of the FCA especially good knowledge on Payment Services Regulations 2017 and the Electronic Money Regulations 2011
• Good understanding of the FCA, and its approach to regulation
• Good knowledge of FCA internal governance, reporting procedures and record keeping

Selection process:

• Head of treasury
• Head of corresponded banking and liquidity management
• Cross function with VP
• HR discussion