Help pilot the rocket ship. Controller capabilities are essential to steer the ship in the right direction, ensuring we comply with accounting, regulatory and tax requirements
Work with Regional Controllers, Reporting and Tax Teams to ensure financial compliance, including controlling local audits of the UK and EU Investment firms
Work with the Prudential Controller, Regional Controllers and FP&A to review and ensure compliance over group capital rules while creating automated monitoring solutions
Help the Regional Finance team in performing day-to-day overview of the investment legal entities, including analyzing financial results, preparing and reviewing regulatory reporting, making sure necessary financial controls are performed
Work with finance teams, especially Finance Product team (software engineers) to ensure systems, controls and processes are prepared for regional requirements
Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
Relevant experience in either financial controlling, financial audit, financial advisory or management accounting
Knowledge of IFRS and strong understanding of accounting principles
Prior experience in a prudentially regulated controller environment, including experience in prudential regulations (e.g. IFPR, CRR, ICAAP/ ILAAP or equivalents overseas) in a multinational environment
You are a self-starter and can organize your own work (you'll get a lot of support but soon you'll be the expert here)
A self-starter with the ability to analyze data, take judgments and suggest structural and product strategies to improve capital and liquidity efficiency
Able to work as part of a multinational and multi-disciplined team to adhere to the prudential regulations in the most optimal way for our customers
Worked in a fast moving financial services (preferably fintech) environment
Experience in assessing and concluding on complex accounting and regulatory matters, including setting up accounting policies, preparing accounting treatment papers etc.
Experience of reviewing, creating or running risk models, stress tests and regulatory monitoring
You are accurate and detail oriented, great at finishing detailed jobs
You can take responsibility and make decisions independently, great at organizing your own work schedule with little or no guidance
Able to communicate complex issues to all levels of internal and external stakeholders
Have an ability to move beyond Excel and dig into raw data
You get finance, accounting and financial services regulatory terminology and have ability to understand their importance in how we pilot the rocket ship
You have a passion for what we're building at TransferWise and you will work on any financial requirements
You are keen to roll up sleeves and get the job done, we all do our own Excel still
You are humble, comfortable operating with a high level of uncertainty, can act independently, be decisive and take responsibility
You are open to self-development, willing to gain experience, improve your skills and keen to learn new tricks
You are detail oriented, with ability to deliver and communicate complex areas on time and succinctly
You are able to work with multiple teams within and outside of finance as well as internationally on projects or ad hoc requests as required, with flexibility and a can do attitude.
You feel passionate implementing your skills and knowledge in creation and improvement of controls framework and internal processes