Finance Manager – High Growth Fintech

Overview

Finance Manager – High Growth Fintech (Payments)

Pearse Portfolio has partnered exclusively with a market leading technology unicorn ($1bn+ valuation), within their payments business, as they look to grow their UK presence with a vital Finance Manager hire. The company looks to continue rapidly scaling with offices across Europe and by strategically launching new product lines.

The Role:

The corporation is in the process of building a Payments organisation, involved in the movement of billions of funds across their marketplace. Creating an integrated organisational structure by streamlining core operations.

Their experienced CFO, who has a track record of successfully scaling businesses across the fintech space, is searching for a hands-on Finance Manager to play a key regulatory and strategic role in the Payments business licensed in the UK.

Key Responsibilities:

• Ensure accurate and timely financial reporting to both management and the regulators
• Maintain effective controls and processes around the safeguarding of customer funds, including oversight of reconciliation activities performed by the wider group
• Monitor capital adequacy and produce required reports for regulatory submission.
• Develop, update, and maintain documentation covering financial compliance, safeguarding procedures, and reporting frameworks.
• Act as a key point of contact for regulators (primarily the FCA) and external auditors
• Track developments in UK financial regulation and implement updates to reporting processes to ensure continued compliance.
• Oversee the application of transfer pricing arrangements across subsidiaries.
• Provide support on financial compliance matters across additional European jurisdictions.
• Collaborate with finance team members on a range of ongoing and ad hoc projects.
• Continuous process improvement and automation projects.

Experience:

• Fully qualified accountant (ACA, CIMA, ACCA or equivalent)

• Experience in a similar fintech environment

• Experience working with the FCA

• Extremely ambitious with a desire to keep learning

• Advanced Excel skills

• High attention to detail

Why join?

• Join an exciting high growth fintech organisation
• Accelerated career progression and experience
• Start-up energy with world class talent
• Extremely generous holidays and benefits
• Hybrid and flexible work opportunities working
• Vibrant London Office