Trust Payments
Job Title: Group Financial Controller
Intro
Whilst the last couple of years have been a tough time for everyone personally, we’ve adapted our strategy and continued our impressive growth. In that timeframe we’ve hired and integrated close to 150 new starters and grown our revenues significantly as a business.
We have adapted our ways of working to ensure that new starters that join feel part of one big virtual team. From regular town halls to coffee mornings and dedicated mental health days, we want to ensure we put the needs of our employees first. Feedback from our new hires has been positive, they love our onboarding programme and how much it makes them feel integrated into Trust from the start. Trust Payments was recently recognised for its accomplishments in employee engagement and is now considered one of the UK’s “Best Companies to Work having been awarded a 1* star rating indicating very good levels of workplace engagement.” Winning accolades in three other categories include being One of Financial Services top 30 companies, one of London’s top 75 large companies, and one of Wales top 30 companies to work for.
About Us:
Trust Payments is a global unified payment technology group that was formed in 2019 bringing together technology and financial services into an omnichannel solution. The new business model has enabled Trust Payments to establish itself as a leading Fintech Payments group.
Main purpose of the job:
The Group Financial Controller will work within the finance function of Trust Payments, reporting to the Group Financial Director and managing a global finance reporting team across UK and Malta to ensure all aspects of financial reporting and analysis for the executive team and board are met on time. They will ensure good control and governance of financial procedures in a highly dynamic and fast growing fintech business, some of these activities being regulated by the FCA, MFSA other regulators.
Duties and responsibilities:
• Ensuring good controls, systems, and processes in place to support a fast growing fintech business
• Improve month end close, systems, processes, controls and automation delivering efficiency and faster month end close
• Production of reporting with full financial analysis
• Review and management of operating cash flow forecasts and control of cash movement and cash balances with Treasury
• Ensure all group subsidiary companies are correctly accounting for revenue and costs,
• Timely production of monthly management accounts ensuring all balance sheet accounts have been reconciled
• Monthly review and analysis of group capitalisation with the tech team
• Production of timely and accurate financial reporting (including statutory)
• Review sales commissions with the Sales and Data teams
• Oversight of all Revenue Recognition functions to ensure all aspects of revenue across the group are captured and accounted for
• Oversight of all Accounts Payable
• Responsibility for group consolidation
• Managing the annual and interim external financial audits ensuring timely delivery of statutory accounts
• Regular reviews of impairment across the group for assets and investments
• Preparing consolidated accounts and reporting for presentation to the senior stakeholders
• Management of all statutory reporting including VAT and Tax across all group entities
• Managing the group intercompany matrix with monthly reviews and reconcilaitons
• Ability to lead the day-to-day operations of the finance function
• Managing a global finance team providing mentorship and assistance to the team in their tasks
Experience and Qualifications:
• Experience working in a financial accounting function
• Proven track record in FCA regulated business
• Experience in a similar type business (Payments).
• Fully qualified accountant
• Experienced in a matrix structure
• Experienced working in a multi business group
• Experience of NetSuite
• Strong reporting and interpersonal skills
• An excellent communicator who is self-motivated, empathetic and a team player who can work in a fast-paced environment
• Ability to operate at senior level with a proven track record of strategic thinking and a ‘can-do’ attitude to driving business growth
• Similarly, payments or banking experience would be well received
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• High levels of personal and professional accountability and integrity
Benefits (subject to local office benefits policy):
• Opportunity to be part of a rapidly scaling and market leading Fintech business.
• Flexible homeworking
• Health and Wellbeing ethos including regular wellness sessions, fitness and nutrition and other events as well as supported by internally qualified mental health first aiders
• Family friendly enhanced benefits/policies
• Pension, Healthcare, Life Assurance
• Social events and team building
• Celebrations
We understand the value that a diverse and inclusive working environment brings to Trust Payments. We celebrate the differences that people can bring through their cultures, backgrounds, and perspectives. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, colour, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or any other protected characteristic.
During the recruitment process we welcome you to inform us confidentially of any special adjustments required to participate fully in our recruitment experience.
To submit your CV for this exciting Group Financial Controller opportunity, please click ‘Apply’ now!