Associate, Product Control

We’re Checkout.com. You might not know our name, but companies like eBay, Spotify, Klarna, Uber, and Sony do, because we’re behind many of the digital experiences you use every day. We are where the world checks out, enabling over 10 billion transactions yearly for more than one billion global shoppers. Our platform helps the most ambitious businesses deliver effortless digital experiences, at scale.

As we continue to grow in size, scale and complexity, we are looking for an Associate to join us. Working as part of our Product Control team, this newly created role will support accounting for new product testing and our trading activity, ensuring timely and accurate reporting.

You will partner closely with our New Products, Engineering, and Product teams to ensure our offerings meet all finance, data, and accounting requirements. This role also supports our ongoing efforts to strengthen accounting operations, particularly through the standardization and automation of our balance sheet reconciliations.

How you’ll make an impact:

• Support testing procedures of new products, assessing completeness and accuracy of data flows and accounting records, and coordinating issue resolution and formal sign-off.
• Collaborate extensively across Product, Engineering, New Products and the wider Finance teams.
• Continually and proactively identify opportunities to leverage AI and automation to achieve efficiency, enhance data integrity and quality, and strengthen internal controls.
• Perform core accounting processes and coordinate with FinOps on relevant reconciliations across key trading account balances - such as scheme debtors, merchant creditors, and FX clearing.
• Serve as SME for the area under your domain, applying your accounting knowledge to ensure balances are properly accounted for in line with IFRS requirements.
• Set up documentation and processes that are robust and well controlled for period end close and audit purposes.
• Participate in project work or product development initiatives alongside daily responsibilities.
• Work closely with the auditors both internal and external to ensure successful completion of the audits in a timely manner.

What we’re looking for:

• Professional finance qualification such as the ACA or equivalent, with practical knowledge of IFRS and accounting principles.
• 2+ years of experience in balance sheet reconciliations and month-end reporting.
• Experience working in high-volume, dynamic, regulatory environments, ideally within Payments, FinTech, or Financial Services.
• Strong proficiency in MS Excel and ability to reconcile and analyze high-volume data.
• Analytical mindset with a proactive interest in data and AI-driven automation.
• Highly organized, comfortable managing multiple workstreams simultaneously.
• Proven ability to find end-to-end solutions to issues and work cross-functionally and with remote teams - including Finance, Product, Engineering, Data.
• Keen to learn more about Fintech products and the inner workings of an organisation dealing with high volume transactions.

Additional Information:

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.

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.