Senior Accountant Manager

Capchase, recognised as one of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies of 2023, empowers SaaS companies to grow faster through access to capital & revenue management tools. We have been acknowledged by Forbes North America’s best startups and also featured among Forbes Next Billion-Dollar Startups 2023. To carry out our mission, we've received $700M+ in equity and debt funding from some of the best fintech investors QED (Nubank, Klarna), 01 Advisors (Tipalti, Master Class), Bling Capital (Airtable, Gitlab, Lyft, Square), SciFI (Stripe, Brex), Caffeinated (OpenDoor, Airtable).

In a little over three years, we’ve provided billions in funding to thousands of companies, expanded operations to ten countries in the US and Europe, and grown our team from four co-founders in May 2020 to 130 Capchasers today.

Since our launch in 2020, we’ve achieved several milestones:

➡ 4K+ companies registered

🏃 5,000 plus months additional runway generated

🙌 Over 120 Capchasers working across 14 cities around the world representing over 20 nationalities

🌎 10 countries in which we operate

📈 250% annual company growth

👫 Built an awesome culture.

We are looking for a Senior Accountant Manager to join the Finance team and work hand in hand with our Controller and VP of Finance. In this role, you will be responsible for overseeing the company's financial operations. This includes managing accounting processes, ensuring compliance with financial regulations, developing budgets, and providing financial analysis to support business strategy. You will also lead and develop the finance team, streamline processes, and identify and mitigate financial risks.

🚀 What will you do?

• Manage Financial Operations:




• Manage accounting and financial functions, including month-end close processes, account reconciliations, and spend management.
• Oversee various company annual audits and ensure compliance with financial regulations and reporting requirements.
• Collaborate on the development of accurate budgets and financial plans, providing insights to management and driving improvements in financial outcomes.
• Support the production of management reports, ensuring relevance and accuracy, while providing sound financial advice to drive business strategy.
• Resolve day-to-day and complex accounting issues, while identifying key performance metrics and ensuring robust internal controls.
• Support Treasury management 
• Staying up to date with industry regulations and ensuring compliance with tax laws, government reporting requirements, and accounting standards specific to financing companies
• Enforcement of strong internal controls to safeguard assets and improve efficiency.
• Identifying financial risks and implementing controls to mitigate them. This includes liquidity, market, or operational aspects within a tech financing company
• Support Controller/VP of Finance on an as needed basis.




• Process Improvement: 




• Build and streamline processes, focusing on automation, efficiency, and the standardization of accounting operations.
• Develop scalable accounting operations to support rapid growth, ensuring that systems and processes can handle increasing transaction volumes
• Managing financial systems including Netsuite




• Leadership and Team Management:




• Overseeing, mentoring, and developing the accounting and finance team, as well as ensuring appropriate resource allocation.
• Work with other departments on new product offerings and non-routine transactions, ensuring financial terms and impacts are well-documented and operationalized.
• Clear and effective communication with internal and external stakeholders.

🧠 Who are you?

• Service Mindset:




• Collaborative: Works well across departments, building strong relationships with teams and stakeholders to ensure financial processes align with company needs.
• Empathetic: Understands the needs of both internal teams and external customers, ensuring financial decisions benefit all parties involved.
• Integrity-driven: Always seeks to do the right thing, ensuring transparency in financial reporting and acting with honesty in all dealings




• Builder Attitude:




• Proactive: Takes initiative to identify and fix issues in financial systems and processes, without waiting for direction.
• Solution-oriented: Actively seeks ways to improve workflows, streamline processes, and enhance financial systems through innovation and automation.
• Growth-focused: Has a continuous improvement mindset, always looking for opportunities to grow personally and help the business evolve financially.




• Courageous Spirit:




• Strong Communicator: Provides and accepts direct feedback, using it as a tool for improvement and being unafraid to address conflicts or financial challenges head-on.
• Visionary: Thinks big and aligns financial strategies with the company’s bold aspirations, pushing the boundaries of traditional finance functions to support innovation.

📚 What skills are we looking for?

• An accounting qualification from a recognized accounting body (e.g ACCA, ACA, CPA) with a minimum of 3-5 years post-qualification experience
• Experience with data analytics tools and strong excel skills are essential
• Experience in a financial services environment is required 
• Proficient English skills. As our main business language, it's a must to be comfortable working in the language
• US GAAP experience preferred (or at least demonstrated ability to get up to speed quickly)
• Big 4 and/or start-up experience preferred
• Experience working with Netsuite an advantage

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.