Financial Controller

Here at Fnality, we are powering the future of finance, together: combining best in class technology with free-flowing creativity, and expertise that can make business better for everyone. There are no precedents for what we’re doing. With you on our side, we’ll be setting new ones every day.

In a complex world, we are here to bring clarity and make positive change.

The Financial Controller Role

At Fnality, our job titles (like that at the top of this job description), are loosely held, and often more indicative of our previous experience than what we are currently working on. For example, one week you could be involved in all things around the review of accounting records ensuring they are maintained to meet our shareholder reporting requirements but the next week splitting your time between investor relations, an RFP for a new supplier, or supporting our regulatory engagement teams with a submission - so whatever the company needs to prioritise to meet its goals, whilst utilising your potential.

That being said, we would love for candidates for be able to demonstrate these competencies:

• Taking responsibility for all aspects of Fnality’s financial reporting including management accounts and annual statutory financial statements.
• Applying subject matter expertise and best practise on the company’s external reporting based on IFRS and UK GAAP
• Driving process improvements and implementing financial controls to drive excellence in financial stewardship of shareholder funds through the business
• Ability to review and sign contracts and approve payments based on the Board’s delegation of authority
• Take ownership for controls over cash, treasury, and foreign exchange risks.
• Coordination of tax compliance, ideally with multi-jurisdictional tax experience
• Ability to design inter-company and cross jurisdictional agreements to comply with tax legislation and transfer pricing
• Working diligently with investment professionals to ensure their information rights are met through regular reporting and adequately responding to ad-hoc requests on a timely basis

• Ability to write technical opinions of technical accounting and tax matters by leveraging past experience and conducting desk-based research

• Manage relationships with professional services firms, tax authorities, regulators, and auditors.
• Finding the appropriate level of oversight as the business grows and scales up balancing speed of execution with internal controls
• Being comfortable working within a cross functional team, taking part in all phases of financial control and tasks outside of your experience.

Minimum requirements for the role:

• You are a chartered Accountant (ICAEW or equivalent)
• Experience at one of the Big Four (EY, PWC, Deloitte, KMPG) strongly preferred
• You have strong technical tax and accounting experience with IFRS a must, and US GAAP is a plus
• You are a self-motivated doer who operates well in a team environment

Why should you join Fnality?

Working in cross functional teams in monthly sprints very much in line with the Agile way of working, you will have the option to explore your career interests to a far deeper level than at most organisations.

We employ curious individuals who thrive working in a fast paced and constantly changing environment, who work best when empowered to drive their own work, and who are not afraid to fail fast and learn quicker.

You will be an analytical thinker who is able to look at tasks and understand the most efficient way to achieve the desired outcome. You will be vigilantly outcomes-focussed and fully agile in your approach to working. You will have an insatiable desire to learn, adept at picking up new challenges and giving it a go. You will want to deliver as much as learn and you will understand how important the power of the team is. 

Our values

We embrace diversity and equal opportunity and are committed to building a team that not only shares our values but represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. The more inclusive we are, the better we will be as individuals and as a team. Please talk to us about your ideal working arrangements and how we can enable you to bring your best and support our success. 

Eligibility

This role is a UK based role, and you must be eligible to work in the UK. Please note we cannot sponsor visas for this role.

A bit more about us

Digital transformation is changing our lives, work and businesses. While other sectors evolve however, financial markets remain slow, fragmented and siloed. What the world needs now is a future-facing financial system for the digital age.

At Fnality, we have been speaking – and listening – to the real users of today’s financial systems. From businesses to banks, there is a clear, collective ambition for a simpler, faster, safer and more resilient payment system; one that can move and settle money quickly and efficiently, with minimised risk and much more transparency.

Fnality Global Payments

We are building a new payment system that will enable tokenised, peer-to-peer markets.

Fnality Global Payments (FnGP) will comprise a series of national systems, each regulated in its home jurisdiction. We call each of these a Fnality Payment System (FnPS).

In each payment system, a Fnality settlement asset will act as the settlement/payment asset for any Payment (P), Delivery v, Payment (DvP) or payment vs. payment (PvP) need.

FnGP are underpinned by Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT). The nature of DLT is such that it enables FnGP to:

• Operate a true peer-to-peer market

• Allow for immediate settlement

• Interoperate across business platforms and jurisdictions

The key benefits of the above are:

• Reduced counter-party and credit risk

• Reduced operational risk

• Efficient liquidity management

• An ability to move resources from risk mitigation to business growth

How will we use the information about you?

We will use your personal information to process your application, to enable us to assess your suitability for a role and for other legitimate business purposes such as improving our sites and talent management practices. We may share your data with third parties to achieve these purposes. We will not use or share your information for marketing purposes.

We will take appropriate security measures to safeguard your information in accordance with data protection legislation.

If you would like further information about how your information may be processed by us, please contact us at privacy@fnality.org.