Company Description
We’re Checkout.com – you might not know our name, but companies like eBay, ASOS, Klarna, Uber Eats, and Sony do. That moment when you check out online? We make it happen.
Checkout.com is where the world checks out. Our global network powers billions of transactions every year, making money move without making a fuss. We spent years perfecting a service most people will never notice. Because when digital payments just work, businesses grow, customers stay, and no one stops to think about why.
With 19 offices spanning six continents, we feel at home everywhere – but London is our HQ. Wherever our people work their magic, they’re fast-moving, performance-obsessed, and driven by being better every day. Ideal. Because a role here isn’t just another job; it’s a career-defining opportunity to build the future of fintech.
Job Description
As part of its continued growth, Checkout.com is looking for a driven and dedicated Manager to join the Finance New Products team. This newly created role will be instrumental in ensuring that the impacts to finance of product, geographic and market segment expansions are identified and addressed.
Working as part of our Financial Controls team, you'll be a key player partnering with stakeholders across Product, Engineering and Finance teams to ensure that new product expansions adhere to financial reporting, operations and control requirements, empowering us to scale effectively.
This will be a hands-on role and is an excellent platform for a Finance professional looking to step into a product and expansion-focussed role within a vanguard FinTech. The ideal candidate will have a strong technical foundation in accounting, financial reporting, risks and control, as well as a well-trained eye for effective and efficient processes. This role will require you to be both detail-oriented and have the ability to step back and understand the big picture of how New Products affect all aspects of Finance.
You must be highly organised and able to contribute to multiple work streams concurrently, and be an effective business partner to communicate finance requirements.
How You’ll Make an Impact
- Build and deepen relationships with the various Product, Engineering and Finance teams to be a key contributor to the day-to-day product and market expansion processes.
- Effectively partner and challenge broader product and commercial teams to ensure any New Product offering is developed and optimised to meet Finance data, system integration, financial accounting/reporting, audit and control requirements.
- Identify existing gaps/problems that need solving and influencing broader Finance and Product teams to remove any roadblocks for future product implementations.
- Manage New Product discovery processes to document and articulate the Finance impacts of new initiatives.
- Support and review testing procedures to assess completeness and accuracy of data flows through systems and ensure appropriate accounting entries are recorded.
- Document accounting considerations of New Product initiatives and collate and evidence sign-offs from key stakeholders across Finance leadership teams.
- Help manage the Finance roadmap to deliver New Products and provide clarity to key stakeholders on the status of product implementations.
What We’re Looking For
- Professional finance qualification such as the ACA or equivalent, with at least 7 years’ post qualification experience.
- You will also possess strong knowledge of IFRS and general accounting principles.
- Proven track record partnering with multiple stakeholders, employing varying engagement and communication styles.
- You have deep knowledge of end-to-end transaction flows and finance processes, preferably within an audit environment, to identify risks and ensure best practice controls are in place.
- Expert knowledge of MS Excel/Sheets and the ability to analyse and reconcile high volume data.
- You will have direct line management experience ensuring team deliverables are met and simultaneously developing skill sets of direct reports.
- You will be highly organised and can manage multiple workstreams concurrently.
- You are keen to learn more about Fintech products and the inner workings of an organisation dealing with high volume transactions.
- You are not afraid to roll up your sleeves and take responsibility to do whatever needs doing to solve problems. You take a proactive approach in resolving complex issues.
- Experience in Payments and/ or fast growth companies will be advantageous.
- Experience in Finance Transformation is also advantageous.
Bring all of you to work
We create the conditions for high performers to thrive – through real ownership, fewer blockers, and work that makes a difference from day one.
Here, you’ll move fast, take on meaningful challenges, and be recognized for the impact you deliver. It’s a place where ambition gets met with opportunity – and where your growth is in your hands.
We work as one team, and we back each other to succeed. So whatever your background or identity, if you’re ready to grow and make a difference, you’ll be right at home here.
It’s important we 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.
Life at Checkout.com
We understand that work is just one part of your life. Our hybrid working model offers flexibility, with three days per week in the office to support collaboration and connection.
Curious about what it’s like to be part of our team? Visit our Careers Page to learn more about our culture, open roles, and what drives us.
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