Financial Controller - Fintech

About the Company

• Our client is a fast-growing financial technology business operating in a transaction‑heavy, regulated environment.
• The business has moved quickly from early‑stage build into scale‑up mode and now requires stronger finance infrastructure, tighter controls and cleaner reporting discipline.
• This is a commercially ambitious, execution‑led environment with senior leadership that values ownership, accuracy, speed and practical problem‑solving.
• The company is looking for someone who can strengthen the finance function from the inside: not just maintain the books, but improve the way the numbers are produced, reconciled, controlled and reported.

• The Financial Controller will own the core accounting and controllership function across a multi‑entity and multi‑jurisdiction environment.
• This is a hands‑on role responsible for the integrity of the underlying numbers: books, journal entries, reconciliations, close process, controls, tax compliance and month‑end reporting.
• The successful candidate will work directly with senior finance leadership, taking ownership of the operational finance engine so leadership can rely on accurate, timely and well‑controlled financial information.
• This role is best suited to an A‑player who enjoys detail, structure and ownership, and who is comfortable improving a finance function that is still being formalised as the business scales.

• Own day‑to‑day accounting operations across multiple entities and jurisdictions.
• Manage bookkeeping oversight, journal entries, general ledger integrity and operating expense accounting.
• Lead bank reconciliations, balance sheet reconciliations, transaction reconciliations and multi‑currency accounting workflows.
• Build and run a disciplined month‑end close process, including close checklists, supporting schedules and reporting packs.
• Ensure financial data is accurate, complete, timely and properly supported.
• Strengthen controls around approvals, documentation, reconciliations, reporting cadence and audit readiness.
• Support external audit, statutory reporting, tax/VAT compliance and regulated entity reporting requirements.
• Partner with finance leadership, operations, compliance and senior management to ensure finance outputs properly reflect business activity.
• Improve data quality, tagging, reporting visibility and the flow of finance information into management reporting.
• Identify opportunities to automate manual accounting, reconciliation and reporting processes.
• Help build, mentor and formalise the finance/accounting team as the organisation grows.

• High‑volume transactional business with multiple reconciliation points.
• Multi‑currency activity across several bank accounts, entities and jurisdictions.
• Finance function moving from founder‑led/start‑up processes into more formalised scale‑up controls.
• Some clean‑up, process tightening and documentation improvement required.
• Strong appetite for automation, better systems usage and AI‑enabled finance workflows.

• Approximately 8‑15 years of experience across accounting, controllership, finance operations or audit‑to‑industry finance roles.
• Strong preference for candidates from payments, fintech, financial services, marketplace, remittance, banking, lending, FX, brokerage, trading, SaaS or other high‑volume transaction environments.
• Deep experience with reconciliations, month‑end close, journal entries, GL ownership, controls and financial reporting.
• Hands‑on operating finance experience is essential; this is not a purely review‑based, advisory or strategic finance role.
• Strong understanding of IFRS and accounting standards; ACA, ACCA, CPA, CA or equivalent qualification preferred.
• Experience across multi‑currency, multi‑entity and regulated environments is highly advantageous.
• Naturally precise, structured and control‑focused, with a genuine desire to get the books right down to the detail.
• Comfortable in a high‑growth environment where processes are still being built and improved.
• Curious about automation, AI and modern finance workflows, with the mindset to make accounting faster, cleaner and more scalable.

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