Senior Accountant

Posted 15 Days Ago
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2 Locations
3-5 Years Experience
Fintech • Payments • Financial Services
The Role
As a Senior Accountant at Paysend, you'll oversee global payroll, manage accounts payable, prepare monthly management accounts and annual financial statements, respond to audits, and collaborate across regions to ensure efficient financial operations and reporting.
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At Paysend, we're on a mission to deliver the World's Simplest Money Transfer.

Paysend is a next-generation integrated global payment ecosystem, enabling consumers and businesses to pay and send money online anywhere, anyhow and in any currency. Paysend is UK-based and has global reach having been created in April 2017 with the clear mission to change how money is moved around the world. Paysend currently supports cross-network operability globally across Mastercard, Visa, China UnionPay and local ACH and payment schemes, providing over 40 payment methods for online SMEs.

Paysend can send money to over 170 countries worldwide and has attracted more than seven million consumers to its platform. As a global end-to-end payment platform, Paysend has a global network of banks and international and local payment systems and has partnerships with the major international card networks Visa, Mastercard and China Union Pay as a principal members and certified processors.

Our success is built on supreme technology, friendly customer service and, of course, the very best talent in the FinTech industry. We’re looking for the future gamechangers of FinTech to join us as we positively disrupt the personal and business payments markets and make financial services more accessible and inclusive for individuals and small businesses around the world.

Every day is a new challenge at Paysend, and we approach each project with ambition, innovation and creativity.


What you’ll be doing

  • Global oversight of the Payroll function in paysend, approving payroll and payments and booking payroll related journals as part of month end.
  • Oversigh of AP function including PO creation and approval, invoice processing and weekly payment of suppliers.
  • Preparation of monthly accruals and AP postings
  • Managing a team AP and Payroll accountants
  • Responsible for posting bank transactions to the general ledger and ensuring accurate cash management
  • Bank Reconciliations and acting as support for Cash Book
  • Preparation of monthly Management Accounts
  • Preparation of Annual Financial Statements
  • Responding to external auditor requests
  • Monthly Balance Sheet reconciliations
  • Monthly analysis and explanation of Profit & Loss and Balance Sheet movements vs Budgets
  • Posting Journals
  • Business Partnering across multiple regions: Europe, North America, APAC
  • Close collaboration with the settlement team in the UK and Serbia
  • Monitoring and constant improvement of operational processes and controls
  • Other ad-hoc tasks entrusted by Financial Controllers or Finance Director

What you’ll need to be successful in the role

  • Logical thinking
  • Excellent written and verbal communication
  • Ability to communicate financial data to others
  • Attention to detail
  • Able to demonstrate proactiveness
  • Willing to learn new knowledge and skills

Technical/Functional:

  • Fully qualified accountant ACCA/ACA
  • Post qualified experience 3 years+
  • Knowledge of UK & Irish GAAP and IFRS
  • Solid knowledge of accounting, financial reporting and tax.
  • Strong working knowledge of spreadsheets/Power query
  • Experience using any of the big accounting software: SAP, Oracle NetSuite

Ideally, you’ll also have:

  • Strong technical capabilities and ability to contribute to automation and process improvement projects
  • High growth tech experience (preferably FinTech), as well as having experienced best practice in a larger organisation or external audit company
  • Understanding of the payments industry
  • Functional understanding of NetSuite

Why Paysend?

We’re looking for people who share our passion for innovation, buy into the Paysend ethos and add value to our team. When you join Paysend, you’ll have the chance to grow and develop as the business does.

We believe in empowering people to be successful in their jobs, and we pay them fairly for their expertise. We give everyone the context and tools to operate as business owners and encourage our people to contribute with their hearts, minds and creativity.

In the fast-paced FinTech industry the Paysend journey may not always be easy, but we succeed by working together to create solutions that break the status quo. We employ the right people to help us steer the business towards success and global influence.

If Paysend sounds like the perfect company for you, we’d love to hear from you! 


Why Paysend?

We’re looking for people who share our passion for innovation, buy into the Paysend ethos and add value to our team. When you join Paysend, you’ll have the chance to grow and develop as the business does.

We believe in empowering people to be successful in their jobs, and we pay them fairly for their expertise. We give everyone the context and tools to operate as business owners and encourage our people to contribute with their hearts, minds and creativity.

In the fast-paced FinTech industry the Paysend journey may not always be easy, but we succeed by working together to create solutions that break the status quo. We employ the right people to help us steer the business towards success and global influence.

If Paysend sounds like the perfect company for you, we’d love to hear from you! 

Top Skills

Oracle Netsuite
SAP
The Company
London
500 Employees
On-site Workplace
Year Founded: 2017

What We Do

At Paysend, we're on a mission to deliver the World's Simplest Money Transfer. Paysend is a next-generation integrated global payment ecosystem, enabling consumers and businesses to pay and send money online anywhere, anyhow and in any currency. Paysend is UK-based and has global reach having been created in April 2017 with the clear mission to change how money is moved around the world. Paysend currently supports cross-network operability globally across Mastercard, Visa, China UnionPay and local ACH and payment schemes, providing over 40 payment methods for online SMEs. Paysend can send money to over 170 countries worldwide and has attracted more than six million consumers to its platform. As a global end-to-end payment platform, Paysend has a global network of banks and international and local payment systems and has partnerships with the major international card networks Visa, Mastercard and China Union Pay as a principal members and certified processors. Paysend: Simple Money Transfer Download the Paysend app from the App Store or Google Play

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