Senior Associate

Checkout.com is actively looking for a driven and agile Senior Associate, Finance Risk and Controls to join our growing Finance team.

Working as part of our Finance function, you'll be a key player partnering with Product, Engineering and Finance teams to document, review and assess the end to end flows for our products, to address the risks associated with financial reporting. Evolving in a high-pace and multifaceted environment, meticulous attention to detail will be key.

The ideal candidate will be a dedicated, laser-focused and highly organised individual, not shying away from high volume of work. You must be a teammate when it comes to getting the job done and assisting wherever you can.

How you’ll make an impact

• Assist in the identification, assessment, and documentation of financial risks across various business units.
• Support activities to document, challenge and build an end to end view of our customer flow control environment to illustrate key risks, controls and processes that impact group financial statements.
• Complete testing to independently assess controls to identify gaps and implement remediation plans.
• You will work with the Finance Risk and Controls Leads to agree on the identified gaps, and suggestions for improvement.
• Partner with both finance and non-finance teams to address risks and controls related to financial reporting. You will need to build strong effective relationships across the organisation to help us meet our goals.
• Work closely with finance teams to help guide and deliver on control design improvements. We love automation and our engineers will need your help to design the most efficient controls.
• Support internal and external audits by providing necessary documentation and explanations of financial controls and processes.
• Keep on track of Finance Risk and Control findings and also monitor the progress for internal and external audit actions to ensure they are completed on time and actions are adequate to mitigate the risks identified.

Requirements

What we're looking for

• You have a professional finance qualification such as the ACA or equivalent with at least 2 years post qualification experience.
• You are keen to learn more about Fintechs and the inner workings of an organisation dealing with high volume transactions.
• You have experience managing audit fieldwork preferably within Financial services. You have been the key client contact managing day-to-day client queries across various engagements.
• 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. We get it done!
• You understand the value of taking a balanced approach to risk and controls to support the growth of the business.
• You work well in a multinational team environment, and know how to have an impact through others.
• You are keen to learn and develop your knowledge of how a Fintech and fast growing scale-up operates.