Financial Controller
24-09-2024
Marktconform
Medior
Amsterdam
Adyen is looking for a dedicated Product Financial Controller to join the expanding Product Financial Controlling team in Amsterdam. This key role within the Group Finance function involves taking ownership of the financial controlling for either our Payments Platform or Banking Platform.
The ideal candidate will be driven to understand the business behind the numbers, and will use this insight to inform and advise their stakeholders. You will collaborate closely with product teams, including participating in the development of new products and building new accounting flows for these products. Your responsibilities will extend to contributing to financial process optimisation.
If you have a robust accounting background and a keen interest in the fintech industry, this role could be your next step!
What you’ll do
- Collaborate with Product, Operational Finance, Reporting, and Statutory Financial Controlling teams regarding the Payments and Banking Platforms.
- Perform month-end close activities, account reconciliations, and report financial results.
- Manage the audit process for your scope of work.
- Conduct deep dives into the Platform(s) to understand the underlying business activity driving the financial figures.
- Contribute to variance analysis and analytical reviews during the month-end close.
- Identify and implement opportunities to optimize and automate financial processes, in collaboration with Finance Developers and Data Analysts.
- Partner with Product teams and Finance Developers to build accounting flows for new products, ensuring seamless integration into financial processes.
- Contribute to the internal control framework (risk assessments and control implementation).
Who you are
- 5+ years of experience in financial control, accounting or similar.
- Strong proficiency in Excel, including pivot tables and formulas (SQL and Python skills are a plus).
- Ability to work on multiple projects and prioritise effectively.
- Excellent stakeholder management, relationship building skills, with the ability to influence change.
- Analytical skills to drive process improvements and automations.
- Collaborative mindset, proactively seeking input from the wider Finance team and other business stakeholders.
- Forward-thinking mindset, ensuring implemented solutions are scalable for Adyen's continued growth.
- You have the ability to step out of the details to perform high-level analysis, and sense-check the overall reasonability of the numbers
