Senior Associate, Financial Control

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

Checkout.com is looking for a Senior Associate within Financial Regulatory Reporting to join our Finance team.

This is an exciting opportunity for a motivated finance professional to join a high-growth, global fintech business. The Senior Associate will support the financial regulatory reporting function across the Group, ensuring timely, accurate, and compliant regulatory submissions across multiple jurisdictions.

This hands-on role sits within the Financial Control team and will report directly to the Senior Manager of Financial Regulatory Reporting, contributing to the production, validation, and analysis of regulatory returns. You will collaborate closely with internal collaborators including Compliance, Treasury, Product Control, and Regional Financial Control teams to ensure regulatory reporting obligations are met in a timely, controlled, consistent, and scalable way.

Remit and responsibilities:

• Prepare, review, and submit regulatory returns for Checkout’s regulated entities, including but not limited to:

  • UK (FCA): FIN060 Authorised Electronic Money Institution Questionnaire, FIN073 Baseline Financial Resilience Report, FIN074 Economic Crime Levy

  • France (ACPR): Common Reporting for Other Financial Institutions (COREP), Statement of Transactions on Payment Accounts and Electronic Money (RUBA)

  • UAE (CBUAE): Payment Returns Form (PRF), Consumer Protection 

• Validate and reconcile data used in regulatory reports, ensuring completeness, consistency, and accuracy, resolving data quality issues when they arise

• Assist in interpreting regulatory guidance and converting it into clear reporting requirements

• Support in building the regulatory reporting control environment, designing and implementing controls, defining new data sources, and establishing end-to-end processes and checklists

• Work with data teams to ensure data definitions and mapping are consistent with regulatory interpretations

• Assist in responding to regulatory queries, audits, and second-line reviews, preparing supporting documentation and analysis

• Support continuous operational improvements to enhance efficiency, control, and scalability of regulatory reporting

• Supporting the rollout of a new automated solution for data collection and transformation

• Participate in regulatory projects and initiatives, including system changes, new reporting requirements, or market expansions

Qualifications

Successful candidates will have a solid foundation in regulatory or financial reporting, strong attention to detail, and a proactive, analytical approach suited to a fast-paced, regulated environment.

• 2–4 years’ experience in regulatory or financial reporting, ideally within the financial services, payments, or banking sector

• Strong technical and analytical skills with a focus on accuracy and attention to detail

• Working knowledge of regulatory frameworks and reporting regimes (e.g. FCA, ACPR, MAS, or equivalent) preferred

• Ability to work collaboratively across finance, treasury, compliance, and data functions

• Proficient in Excel, Google Sheets, and the use of AI for research and automation, and comfortable working with data sets and reconciliations

• Highly organised, proactive, and capable of managing deadlines in a fast-paced environment

• Strong written and verbal communication skills

• Willingness to learn and grow within a high-performing, fast-evolving team

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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