Group Financial Controller - Estonia

Veriff helps companies all over the world connect with honest people. In a year, our team grew from 17 to 250+, and our software verifies over 9,000 government-issued documents from more than 190 countries. That's millions of verified identities a year and a lot of people working behind the scenes to help make the lives of millions, and one day billions, of people safer online

Thanks to our remarkable growth, Veriff is looking for a Financial Controller who will own the statutory and management account records for a high growth international company. You will work closely with our CFO to align management accounting and business logic of the company and build scalable systems and processes for the accounting function. 

Your mission is to provide correct transparent financials for our management and investors - across several entities at several locations, with several currencies & regulations applying. If you are obsessed by solving puzzles, implementing tools, automating data flows and processes - this is your dream job. You like being hands on, know the details of how revenue and costs come together, keep order in the house of accounting and tax but also understand that things are always changing in a fast growing company. You will develop Veriff's international accounting team and support the company's other teams to improve their processes so the accounting function can excel in their core duties. 

You’ll help us protect honest people online by:

• Managing and developing Veriff’s international Accounting function
• Designing, implementing and reviewing finance systems, policies and procedures
• Managing the Group’s internal and external financial reporting requirements
• Being hands on in preparing monthly consolidated, country and department based financial statements, support files and commentary
• Doing strategic tax planning, including compliance with transfer pricing policies
• Working with HR team to set up international payroll 
• Selecting and implementing new Group accounting software 
• Being a key stakeholder in the implementation of billing software
• Managing process of invoice and income allocation to correct accounts and accounting periods
• Setting up and manage internal processes for invoice approvals
• Preparing annual audited accounts within 8 weeks of the year end
• Working closely with FP&A team to align accounting with operational model of the business and analysis of Group’s performance compared to the budget
• Working with Revenue Operations team on aligning AR & Pricing related processes 

 

What we’d like you to have:

• MA or MBA in Accounting, Finance or Economics
• Experience running accounting for an international company with operations/subsidiaries in multiple countries and in multiple currencies
• Experience preparing management accounts, consolidating multi currency accounts
• Structured, process-driven mindset, like “clean” excel tables and a good attention to detail
• Past experience managing internal and external accounting teams located in different countries
• Knowledge of US GAAP / IFRS is a strong plus
• Experience with auditors and tax advisors
• Excellent Excel skills
• Knowledge of working with cloud based accounting software such as NetSuite or Dynamics NAV
• Exposure to implementation of new finance software, strong plus if you have led the implementation process 

 

At Veriff you will have the opportunity to:

• Build the accounting and tax function for the world's next big success story (Veriff is backed by investors such as Mosaic Ventures, Taavet Hinrikus, Ashton Kutcher and Paul Buchheit)
• Do impactful work at a startup that’s growing crazy-fast and is packed with career opportunities 
• Join a diverse team of over 40 nationalities
• Receive generous sports benefits and additional health insurance
• Be in a pet-friendly and flexible work environment where you are in charge of balancing freedom and responsibility
• Get all the perks that come with a disruptive tech start-up, including health days, unlimited snacks and coffee at the office, team events, and much more